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(...) Are you actually controlling your rover in real time. IE is it actually moving around? I'm working on a web control system too but have the enormous problem of how to restrict the control to one person for x time. then switch to the next in (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.tele)
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(URL) on Projects, and then Moon, and then "Landing on the Moon", and then Mission (whew!) This should launch a new window where you can register to become a user to run the Moon rover remotely. Right now you have to write code in ROBOLAB, but soon (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.tele)
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I did this a while back by calling functions in the spirit.ocx from an ASP page. I used it to control a webcam I made with an RCX and an old QuickCam. I ran it with Personal WebServer on a '95 box and IIS4.0 on my NT Server, but perhaps you can use (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.tele)
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(...) To answer my own question there is a group called lugnet.robotics.tele that is for the above use. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.tele)
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(...) I have given this some thought in the past, although I haven't had the (significant!) time that it would take to try this out. I think the best hope for any kind of two-way communication protocol between the PC and one or more RCXes is to use (...) (24 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I actually prefer the "junk" solution to a hardware hack. (24 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) It seems to me that, given the current hardware, the choices are: send junk or let the tower go dead. My thinking is that if you send junk and trample something, so be it; the tower would have gone dead anyways, forcing you to lose whatever it (...) (24 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Fair enough. It's too bad it doesn't have an always-on mode. (...) Definitely agreed. I'll be patient. (24 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I just haven't found a non-intrusive method for keeping the tower alive. I hate transmitting garbage every few seconds and possibly trampling incoming data. I'm also not sure this is a very good long-term solution. Really a general purpose (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Not that there's any pressure or anything. :) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Dave had mentioned making a listen mode w/ keep-alive in a future version of nqc. But I don't think he's gotten around to that yet. (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Yes. Note that it is only half-duplex. You probably expected that. (...) The biggest issue you might run into is the fact that the IR tower used by the PC times out if it doesn't transmit anything for a few seconds. Unless you have constant (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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"James Hammond" <jsh@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3906A2E6.6A40E0...n.ac.uk... (...) Yes it can. There is a standard RCX opcode for sending single byte messages, and you can always use multiple of these commands for more complex (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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It appears Roblab 2.0 would also be an alternative for your project. Robolab has two different direct modes to control the RCX, one of which is using a remote connection like the Internet. Depending on your direct control requirements, you may want (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi I am sure this has been done many times before, but I am having trouble confirming information. I wish to purchase the RIS 1.5. But before I do I need to be sure that I can communicate with a running program on the RCX and that the RCX can (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Oh yes, it's not the smallest web server, but it might just be the oldest web server. The atari 800 is 20 years old! KL (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.tele)
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(...) Not to one-up you, Kevin, but this guy at UMass has an even smaller server! (URL) Hmmm, can an RCX server be far off? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.tele)
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(...) Oh Beautiful Hack! Very nice!! (I get the same funny +128 characters that Matt got, but I'm sure you'll get that figured out. :) Say, what's the maximum transmission rate (uncompressed) over IR for an RCX brick? Could we expect an RCX version (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.tele)
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I found a tiny survelance camera at a local electronics shop and mounted it on a 4x2 Lego brick. It is B&W. It was originally a pinhole type but I had to modify it. The picture on my 55 inch TV was just too fuzzy. I got the sharpness way up. I built (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.tele)
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| | what really happened to the Mars Polar Lander
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(URL) robotic arm has a temperature sensor on the end of it. if you bring the arm down, it touches the polar ice cap, and you can watch the temperature dip. if you don't have netscape, and you use ie, you have to hit refresh a lot. -Ben (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.tele)
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