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Re: Using two RCX bricks in one robot
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:59:50 GMT
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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
"G.W. Lucas" <gwlucas@connix.com> wrote in message
news:GJvHtA.A9L@lugnet.com...
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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/ ).
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> 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).
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> 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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