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Re: 6.270 course at MIT
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Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:28:13 GMT
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On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Barbara Nostrand wrote:
> Does anyone know the contents of the kit that the project teams use
> for the 6.270 robots course taught at MIT?
I don't believe it is a kit, in the sense that you can buy it- IIRC, it
was custom built by a company in the Boston area. Ah- here is the link-
http://www.crl.research.digital.com/projects/personalserver/
Previous to this new solution (which is powerful enough to run NetBSD)
they used the handyboards, about which you can find more information in
one of the lugnet.robotics sub-groups.
> Also, supposeably, Tufts
> University has developed university level course matterials, but these
> matterials were not immediately obvious from the university's web page.
> Does anyone know about the lego robotics program at Tufts?
Unfortunately, no- I used to have the link, but can't find it now. You
may be interested in a very similar course at Brown-
http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs148/
> For that matter, what is the current state of putting Linux up on
> the RCX? I recall seeing about half a year ago that someone was
> trying to put Linux on the RCX.
As mentioned earlier, i think that was just a joke. However, legOS is a
very reliable way to program the lego from Linux, and could probably be
extended (with a little bit of work with egcs/binutils) to Solaris or
other Unixes (if that was a necessity for the labs at Bradley.)
> Also, aside from the relay kludge, what is the status of
> extending I/O for the RCX? The number of I/O ports seems
> very restricted. Has anyone done any work at putting up
> a serial bus between RCX bricks and breakout boxes?
Can't help you there.
Good luck-
Luis
> Thanx
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> Barbara Nostrand
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