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Subject: 
online interaction with Lego Mindstorms robot
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:04:55 GMT
Original-From: 
Oliver Vornberger <oliver@uos.NOSPAMde>
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My son (15, lots of PC experience) would like to program a robot.

Would it be possible to communicate from the PC
with a Lego Mindstorms robot during operation
or is it only possible to execute a program autonomously
that has been uploaded to the robot ?

-- Oliver Vornberger

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  Re: online interaction with Lego Mindstorms robot
 
(...) Both. It will execute downloaded programs and "immediate" commands. These usually use the Spirit.ocx integrated in some language. Of course that due to the infra-red link you might not have total freedom to use the bot anywhere. As a side (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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