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Using two RCX bricks in one robot
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Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:22:21 GMT
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I'm kicking around the idea of building a Mindstorm's based
entry for the Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest
(see http://www.trincoll.edu/events/robot/ ).
I may be mistaken, but it seems impractical to attempt this
task with a single brick... there just don't seem to be enough
sensor and motor ports. So I'm wondering about the possibility of
building a robot using two bricks (buying a second Mindstorms
is a bit more than I'd like to spend, but that's a different
issue).
What is the preferred approach for having the two bricks
communicate with each other? Clearly, the IR ports can
be used for this purpose using the comm's API's in some of
the alternative programming environments (lejos, legOS, etc.).
Is there a way to do so without putting the bricks
end-to-end? Are there implementation issues I should
know about? Is there a better way?
gary
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 | | Re: Using two RCX bricks in one robot
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| As long as there is some surface for the IR to bounce off, the bricks do not have to face each other. Sending messages is the technique that is used and is very effective. You can do this with any of the various programming languages. -- Bob Fay (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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