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Palm Pilot controlled Mindstorms tanks
By webmaster
On Tue Sep 14, 1999 10:45 AM
Use your Palm Pilot (using Sun's technology) to control your Lego Mindstorms robots. Read the <a href="http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ConsumerProducts/JavaTanks/Javatanks.html">full story</a> at Sun's site.

Use your Palm Pilot (using Sun's technology) to control your Lego Mindstorms robots. Read the <a href="http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ConsumerProducts/JavaTanks/Javatanks.html">full story</a> at Sun's site.

3 Replies to Palm Pilot controlled Mindstorms tanks

This is really perverse.
By Peter da Silva (unregistered )
On Mon Feb 21, 2000 04:39 PM
The subject sounded really cool. I guess that was too much to expect from Sun.

OK, you have these palm pilots, with IR ports, and these RCX units, with IR ports, and you want to communicate with the RCX units from the Palm Pilot.

Well, the easy way to do this would be to use the Pilots to emulate the Lego IR remote controller, and send commands to an RCXcode, NQC, or pbForth program running in the RCX unit.

The hard way would be to add an ethernet, an expensive terminal server, two expensive Sun workstations, and an IR tower, and use a complicated experimental Java-based protocol to do the same thing.

But that would be really really stupid, wouldn't it?
motors RCXcode
By Terry Armstrong (unregistered )
On Wed Oct 25, 2000 07:52 PM
I wish to know how to speed up one Lego kit motor only.
Terry A.
ayudenme a construir un robot
By scorpion
On Sat May 19, 2001 06:39 PM
quiero ayuda para construir un robot casero barrato por favor

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