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NOTE: This is a continuation of a conversation with Mr. Hempel via email.
>> Can I send this text to the robot from a pc at an arbritrary time?
How long
>> will it take each instruction to download?
>Yes you can. I've written a Tcl GUI that I use for development, but
>anything that can talk to a serial port can talk to the bot - and
>in plain text...
Just be be clear, then, it IS possible using pbForth to "control" the robot
via a web interface, given that I create the web interface.
You'll have to forgive this stupid question, but will the RCX.pm module be
available for me to use with pbForth? Or does RCX.pm only work on factory-
Lego's?
>You can follow up this discussion in the pbforth newsgroup under
>robotics at LUGNET...
>I just avoid posting plugs for pbForth in the legos group if I can
>help it :-)
hehe ...
Thanks,
Nils
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| (...) You can use RCX.pm, but that's really for sending native byte streams to the RCX. You can just use standard IO calls to write to the serial port on your Linux Box. Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| (...) Yes. The IR just becomes a dumb serial port whith an annoying builtin echo, almost like you had a serial port cable attached to the RCX. Open the port on the host system using whatever language you want and proceed to send commands to it. Of (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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