RCX 1.5 By free-zombie
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Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:44:54 AMfree-zombie has added a system to »ASEville\'s »System Area.
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Rep: It's a simple computer. You can run programs on it and write programs for it. LEGO ships it with a pointy-and-clicky peace of... well, baby programming software which DOES give it less power than an abacus, but with legOS you can write C programs for it - and have 32K of memory. all you'll ever need. anyway:
the display is of the same type digital watches have, can be used for displaying numbers for debugging etc, networking is possible via infrared - this is the way it communicates with a PC (to get the programs) or other RCX.
There are 3 inputs for sensors. to get information about the outside world and 3 motor outputs to run motors and lights,
basically, it's a fun "intelligent" brick that you stick into robots and program it. "Programming" can either be a point-and-click "do this" "do that" or proper programming in Java or C - which would allow things like a robot that drives around and saves where obstacles are - and sends the data to a PC which can display a map. or whatever.
edit: what TecniFreak (ah whatever, Tornado anyway
) describes is something different. This thing is autonomous. What he described ain't. it's stationary and has no computing power at all. it's simply an interface between a computer and LEGO.
the display is of the same type digital watches have, can be used for displaying numbers for debugging etc, networking is possible via infrared - this is the way it communicates with a PC (to get the programs) or other RCX.
There are 3 inputs for sensors. to get information about the outside world and 3 motor outputs to run motors and lights,
basically, it's a fun "intelligent" brick that you stick into robots and program it. "Programming" can either be a point-and-click "do this" "do that" or proper programming in Java or C - which would allow things like a robot that drives around and saves where obstacles are - and sends the data to a PC which can display a map. or whatever.
edit: what TecniFreak (ah whatever, Tornado anyway
) describes is something different. This thing is autonomous. What he described ain't. it's stationary and has no computing power at all. it's simply an interface between a computer and LEGO.
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