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Re: Wireless Robots
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 25 Nov 1999 00:41:30 GMT
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Vlad,
    You're not missing anything at all.  You are correct that the
communication between the RCX and the laptop isn't faster.  But the
communication to the now more powerful (because of the laptop) robot is
musch faster (1MB/s Ethernet instead of 2400 Baud)  I'll just be using the
mindstorms for it's I/O capabilites and doing the real processing on the
laptop.

                                -JSM



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  Re: Wireless Robots
 
(...) That was what I was thinking too... I still am not seeing how this is going to be faster than if the RCX was communicating directly with a stationary PC... the only improvement is that the range of the robot is better (if the laptop sits on (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Wireless Robots
 
(...) How? via the IR port? then the communication cannot be faster than it already is, or am I missing something? /Vlad (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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