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Re: control RCX from PC
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Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:52:45 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Benjamin Sigonneau wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I'm writing down some practical work for students that learn computer
> science. The goal is to teach them how a serial communication works.
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> Therefore, we want them to write a program that listens to serial
> communications. The PC will send "commands" to the RCX, and the RCX will
> apply those orders ; examples are "move ahead" or "turn left". The RCX
> program will be written in C using Kekoa Proudfoot's libRCX.
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> I think I should be ok with the RCX program. However, I still wonder how
> to send the commands from the PC to the RCX through the serial
> connection. The PCs are running under Windows 2000 and the Mindstorms
> robots use the usb IR tower.
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> I once thought about using a tool such as the hyperterminal program from
> embedded with Windows, but I don't think it should be able to deal with
> the usb IR tower being a serial device. I also thought about BricxCC
> with has a tool that looks like a remote control, but I don't know what
> this tool sends to the RCX.
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> Does anybody :
> 1. knows about a program that would do what I want, ie send a string
> to the RCX throught the usb IR tower
I have a simple WIN32 console application (with C source code) that opens the
USB tower to listen for messages from the RCX. You can easily modify this
program (using the WriteFile() API system function) to talk to the RCX.
http://www.drvegetable.com/download/samplecode/
It's not exactly what you're asking for, but it might get you started.
> *or*
> 2. what are the messages sent by the remote control tool from
> BricxCC ?
I have documented the messages that are sent by the Mindstorms IR remote
control, which are probably the same ones used by BricxCC:
http://www.drvegetable.com/irremote_protocol.html
I hope this helps. Good luck with your class!
- Chris.
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| (...) I just looked over it, and it seems very near to my needs. I may try to modify it for writing to the USB tower. Thanks. By the way, which C++ compiler do you use ? (...) Remote" program. Am I right ? If so, it would be quite easy for me to (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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