 | | Re: RIS 2.0 - when, where, what?? —Dean Husby
| | | | (...) Spring 2001. They have to sell of the 1.5's... From what I remember reading the 2.0 will have. USB IR Tower The power adapter port is back It will look the same as the 1.0 but will have the back raised bit (Near the power adapter port) lowered (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: RIS 2.0 - when, where, what?? —Mike McFarlane
| | | | | Thanks Dean, where did you get your info - have you an inside source? Or would you have to kill me if you told me??? I was kind of hoping that the next RCX would be a bit smaller. Some nice Lithium ion rechargeable batteries. Some more I/O. More (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: RIS 2.0 - when, where, what?? —Dean Husby
| | | | | (...) If I remember correctly it was posted to the Mindstorms Web site briefly... I've told all I know about it. (...) My hope is that the new firmware part in ROM will contain Hardware support for new Sensors. Proximity, Compass etc... Hey, I can (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: RIS 2.0 - when, where, what?? —Tobias Möller
| | | | | Great info! USB IR tower sounds good, I want to use my IR tower with my iBook, but I'm too lazy to buy an USB/Parallell port... I'm planning to use MacNQC then, but AFAIK, MacNQC doesn't "know" that there is a USB port on my computer... Or will it (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: RIS 2.0 - when, where, what?? —Dean Husby
| | | | | (...) USB/SERIAL you mean. (...) Yes, if it works like the PC once it's plugged in the drivers tell the OS that there is a "Serial Port" for it. Then it works just fine. (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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