Mindstorms and Revolution.

[Andre Garzia]

I have a mindstorms set here, I once created my own scheme interpreter 
to fiddle with it. It was very very fun! although Scheme was not R5RS 
compliant and not all RCX features were implemented it showed that the 
task is easy.

I never tried serial communication with Rev, but if there's a way to do 
simple serial communication then you can control your RCX.

Cheers
Andre


On Feb 13, 2004, at 5:36 AM, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 11:33 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>
>> Come on Dar, you can't leave it at that :-)
>> How do you do it. The last time I investigated, you either had to 
>> have some VB dll in Windows or a mini C compiler in Macs. While I 
>> realize one can communicate directly via serial ports, how do you use 
>> this to program &/or control the robots?
>
> Look here for the low level commands:
>
>   http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kekoa/rcx/
>
> This hasn't been updated for a while, so you might want to save it 
> some place.  It might go away.  There are some detailed command 
> entries at that site.  You might find some better or confirming data.
>
> Some folks download a new OS and interpreter.  Variations of Forth, 
> Java and C are are popular.
>
> I'd consider doing this in three stages.  The right way to go might be 
> more obvious after tinkering.
>
> 1  Make something that sends and receives simple hex commands and test 
> tethered.  (See function rcx_send in the send.c example.)
>
> 2  Make commands and functions for control and sensing.  Do some 
> tethered projects with that.
>
> 3  Make a compiler from above plus program control to RCX commands.  
> Download those.  Turn the robot loose.
>
> Dar Scott
>
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