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Re: Can Dacta 9751 be used with WindowsXP or Windows 2000?
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:18:49 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Anders Isaksson wrote:
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Gyl Midroni wrote:
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Does anyone have any experience with this?
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I have one, and the TechnoLogica software works in Win XP (at least pre SP2,
haven’t used it for a long time), but is both (a bit) bugged and seriously
limited.
I did most of my programming with a system I developed myself (I called it
Bricklab, but I think that name is already taken by some other product)
which contains a rudimentary programming language and IDE. You can also
control the interface directly manually.
You can see it (and download) at: http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/dacta/
There isn’t any documentation for my system (although the Delphi 5 sources
are available), so feel free to ask here or mail me at “blockcad AT gmail
DOT com” if you have any questions about it.
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I’ve been working on a .NET class for
it. I have the serial port communication finished and am working on threading
the sensor polling.
In C# you’ll be able use my DLL something like this:
using Mindstorms.ControlLab;
//...
ControlLab controlLab = new ControlLab("COM2");
controlLab.setOutput("A", new Motor());
controlLab.setInput(1, new TouchSensor());
controlLab.Start(); // this opens the serial port and keeps the connection alive until you call Stop()
//...
The method structure will be similar to leJOS but will take advantage of C#
goodies like properties. Microsoft also released a
.NET class for the RCX which
basically wraps GhostAPI, so it’s not useful to me except that I can copy their
class structure (and probably their thread code).
To answer your question, if you can’t afford ROBOLAB and/or want to use a
text-based programming language, you’re going to have to roll your own code to
handle this thing. Unless I finish mine soon enough for you to use. :)
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