Lego Mindstorms support: know any Java programmers with some spare time?

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Mar 24 20:59:50 UTC 2005


note that alex coded some RCX libraries in the past in squeak so if 
someone wants to have fun with that.

Stef

On 24 mars 05, at 21:25, Ned Konz wrote:

> I have just discovered a cross-platform Java library that supports all 
> the
> Lego Mindstorms RCX versions (including the USB towers!) under 
> multiple OS
> platforms.
>
> http://www.escape.com/~dario/java/rcx/
>
> I think that using this library to make an server program that Squeak 
> could
> communicate with would be the easiest way to make cross-platform 
> support for
> Mindstorms RCX units.
>
> Know any Java programmers who could make a program using this?
>
> My idea is to find someone to do this:
>
> Make a command-line Java application that will act as a server for RCX 
> control
> and communications, letting one (or more) clients connect via TCP 
> sockets.
>
> Then one or more Squeak images could connect to this "RCX server" over 
> the net
> and talk to the Lego Mindstorms RCX brick(s) attached to that server 
> machine.
>
> This would be much easier than re-implementing all that stuff in 
> Squeak.
>
> -- 
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/
>




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