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At 12:59 PM 5/23/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> Once upon a time, I was paid briefly to do it to. Certainly the best
> summer job I will ever have.
Glad to hear it. Unfortunately, I'm also a student, the sysadmin, a
programmer, and just general (computer) handyman, so I don't get to play
with the robots all the time.
> FYI, The main limitation with the IR, assuming that your room is
> reasonably IR reflective, is that the tower turns itself off and so it
> can be difficult to send information from the robot to the PC. On the
> other hand, you can send information (read: commands) from the PC to the
> robot pretty reliably, given that the robot doesn't get too far away.
I see. So I can use regular laptop/PC IR to comm with the robot instead of
going through the IR tower?
> Search lugnet.com for TinyVM (I'm pretty sure that is the name.) Not sure
> how complete it is. I think there was another (commercial-ish) demo using
> Java on the PC, but I don't think that there was ever any code or
> anything available for that.
Thanks, I'll do that.
> BTW, you probably want to search for Michael Gasperi's sensor page if you
> want to think about interfacing non-Lego sensors to the robot itself.
> Good luck- let us know how it comes out-
Actually, I'll just be using our proprietary sensors hooked up to "axles"
and other fatigue sensitive "components." Thanks though for letting me know.
I'll make sure and let you guys know ...
Nils
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| (...) No- I should have been more clear: PC->tower->robot automatically turns on the tower and is therefore pretty robust (whereas the robot has no way to turn on the tower once it has gone off.) There is no way to use laptop IR to talk to the (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Crap :) Our setup would have been a hot item at trade shows :) Can anyone give me some info on power conservation with legOS? Will legOS shut itself down after a certain period of time? Does a power adapter exist for the robot so I can plug it (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) It is really fun ... some of the time ;) (...) Yeah, I kind of thought that IR may not be so good, but I'm sure that I can find some ways around that. (...) That's an idea, although the data acquisition system primarily measures stress, (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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