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You could use a terminal server and at leaset telnet to the rcx. KL (...) (27 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) LOL! I like it! (...) [other protocols snipped] (...) Yes I am! Now, to convince the department that we _really_ need 1000 more Mindstorm kits as a fall-back for e-mail in case the net goes down. ;) jack (envisioning a building full of roving (...) (27 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I don't think my first post succeeded, so here it is again. Sorry if you've already seen this. (...) wander around the house until it finds another 'bot. Then it would relay the message to that 'bot. This second 'bot could wander around until (...) (27 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Check out Dave Baum's NQC (Not Quite C). This is your best bet, IMHO. NQC doesn't get around the significant limitations of the RCX firmware, but it should easily be able to handle the application that you describe. (URL) you are running a (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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Allow me to request a little help from all the rcx experts out there. I've purchased Mindstorms set and the infrared remote control. As near as I can tell, I can not do what I want with the mindstorms software, so I'm hoping one of the alternative (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Since the RCX has essentially a serial interface to the outside world, you would need to encode and decode the HTTP requests and responses into a serial-based protocol. If you actually wanted the RCX to be plug-and-play compatible with (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Don't forget 'finger'. There's already provisions for vending machines, so it's not much of a stretch. :) (27 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(OK, I know this sounds perverse, but heck, some high-end printers these days are coming with built-in webservers for configuration, so it's not that perverse.) Has anyone written an HTTP daemon for the RCX? I mean a scaled-down version of httpd (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Thanks Dave. I hadn't downloaded the firmware yet. Originally, I was simply hoping to use the remote control and the rcx to drive my trains. So I didn't bother to install the software. Now I know. Again, Thank you. Ben In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Dave (...) (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Partly, I can think of cases where that might be ugly. But more importantly, I often want to set up a scenario so that two robots will bump into each other in a certain place. (For making movies, showing off to friends, etc.) Can't do that as (...) (27 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Huh? You mean, your robot doesn't work unless you point it in a certain direction before starting the program? That doesn't sound too robust. Okay, let's change the algorithm: (this is for a line tracker that follows "dark" lines and relies on (...) (27 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) going in a circle. (27 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) That's why I suggested a solution that works in all cases. It's not much harder than your solution either. (URL) Robert Munafo (27 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) This is my inspiration for adding on-the-fly init code, btw. RoboTag uses two seperate robots, and it turns out that my friend -- the source of the second mindstorms kit -- has a light sensor which reads about 10 "darker" than mine. (27 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Wow. I feel I should point out that experimentally my method works 100% of the time. :) On the other hand, mine is a special-case application: the light sensor is used to read color values from a surface, which presumably will have very little (...) (27 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Matthew's program takes one reading at initialization time to determine a baseline value. Any reading that falls 7 units below this is assumed to be a dark line. I take a somewhat more conservative approach, taking 10 readings over one second and (...) (27 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) [snip] (...) Yes -- check out my RoboTag program at (URL) RoboTag, the sensor is pointing at the ground, which is probably grey/brown/white, with black border lines. My program reads the light level at start, and assumes that it isn't on a (...) (27 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I haven't done that yet. But if you're doing a line follower, I would suggest the following: 1. First, build the line follower in such a way that it can rotate in place and make the light sensor sweep out a circle on the ground as it rotates. 2. (...) (27 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I have just sumbitted a large number of answers to FAQ questions that hadn't been answered yet, and revisions to other answers. There is also just one answer that I did not change (-: The answers are in the lugnet.faq newsgroup. Here is an index to (...) (27 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.faq)
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This should be an FAQ at this point, but I'm having trouble tracking down an answer in the LUGNET archives. I'd like my 'bot to measure ambient light levels, and make light/gray/dark decisions based on those levels. For instance, Dave Baum's line (...) (27 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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