Re: Lego controller
Steve Baker <[email protected]>
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Steve Hassenplug wrote: > Most of these are pretty clear. Of course, this discussion comes up every few > months. Yeah - and my opinion can still best be described as "Make It Modular". Most of the other things people want would fall naturally out from that one design decision. > Do many people use the IR as a way to communicate between a PC and a moble robot? I doubt it - but MANY people use IR between robots (and the IR remote is pretty nifty when you want to check out your hardware design before you start in on writing software.) If you have to have IR send and receive between robots - then you might as well use IR to download programs from the PC rather than burden the robot with another connector that it doesn't need. The RCX needs to be lighter, smaller, cheaper so anything we can leave off, we should. >>6) Remote sensor Usage (IR or Bluetooth) >>10) Internal IP-like number (same as the imprinted) so you can direct address >>that RCX ! (using IR or Bluetooth) > > I don't know much about Bluetooth. How would this help? Bluetooth is a really short range radio system. If you can get a radio system in there, I'd MUCH prefer that it was 802.11 - better range, easier connection to a PC, Internet capable out of the box. If the Nintendo DS can have it in a $100 box - so could RCX. > Would it really be useful to have Bluetooth to connect to a sensor? No - that's silly. For the sensor to be smart enough to talk on Bluetooth, it would have to have a computer in it. If you are going that way then expose the computer so we can use it. Then you have a modular system (which is what I'd like to see). However, radio comms would make the sensors MUCH more expensive and I don't think we'd want that. ---------------------------- Steve Baker ------------------------- HomeEmail: <[email protected]> WorkEmail: <[email protected]> HomePage : http://www.sjbaker.org Projects : http://plib.sf.net http://tuxaqfh.sf.net http://tuxkart.sf.net http://prettypoly.sf.net -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GCS d-- s:+ a+ C++++$ UL+++$ P--- L++++$ E--- W+++ N o+ K? w--- !O M- V-- PS++ PE- Y-- PGP-- t+ 5 X R+++ tv b++ DI++ D G+ e++ h--(-) r+++ y++++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----