Subject:
|
RE: Expanding the available input/output ports of the RCX
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx
|
Date:
|
Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:52:35 GMT
|
Reply-To:
|
<rmeenaks@olf.STOPSPAMcom>
|
Viewed:
|
799 times
|
| |
|
|
Sure you can try using just three input/output ports, but eventually you end
up scaling back you designs. Of course, you can always buy another RCX to
increase the number of ports, which will throw you back $200. Adding a
multiplexor is such an easy and cost effective solution. I have seen several
designs on the web, but I dont know which one has both an ease of use
programming wise and is the most flexible....
Ram
-----Original Message-----
From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com]On Behalf
Of Brett Carver
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 2:20 AM
To: lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com; lugnet.robotics.rcx@lugnet.com
Subject: Re: Expanding the available input/output ports of the RCX
Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
> With only 3 input and 3 output ports, the RCX becomes quite
> limiting after a while. ...
How about coming up with creative solutions within the limits of
the hardware? In the real world, you can't always make it bigger
and better, sometimes you have to do it another way. It's a much
more interesting problem to "do it with only three inputs" that to
just "throw a multiplexer on it". (IMHO of course :-)
--
Brett Carver
brett_carver@agilent.com
(707) 577-4344
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
8 Messages in This Thread:
 
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
