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RCX --> miniBoard(was: lack of interest in basic stamp and basicx)
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:39:46 GMT
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Stefano Franchi <franchi@csli.Stanford.EDU>
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> > My personal interest in replacing my RCX by a handyboard in a lego
> > compatible enclosure is driven by the knowledge that I can easily
> > program the HC11 in assembly language and download the code into
> > the chip by well documented functions in the CPU. And straightforward
> > 68 family assembly language is so simple compared with the arcane
> > pbForth which is touted as the "assembler" for the RCX.
Is anyone here thinking about going the opposite way, i.e replacing
the RCX with a Mini Board? I am contemplating such a switch for
essentially two reasons: cost and size. For the price of a Rcx you
can buy two mini board kits, and they are about half the size. That'd
make multi robot applications (well, games...) easier and cheaper.
Has anyone done that already?
S.
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| (...) Yeah, that's what I suspected in fact. My training and experience as a software engineer made me forget what it was to be faced with an unknown, complex programming language. I've been assuming everyone would be fluent in C ;-) On the other (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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