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Subject:	Re: Duplex Comms with RCX
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
Date:	Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:20:16 GMT
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Dave Baum <dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com> wrote: > 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. 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 was you wanted to receive if you hadn't kept the tower alive in the first place. Obviously new hardware (or a hardware hack) would be preferred, but short of these, what other choices are there? -Kekoa

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		Re: Duplex Comms with RCX
(...) I actually prefer the "junk" solution to a hardware hack. (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

		Re: Duplex Comms with RCX
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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		Re: Duplex Comms with RCX
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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