Mindstorms and Revolution.

[Ian Wood]

Having delved deeper into the documentation at www.makingthings.com the 
teleo system appears to the computer as a serial port and can be 
controlled by any app that can communicate with serial ports.  Here 
come customised devices with customised control apps!  He said 
hopefully...

Ian

On 16 Feb 2004, at 23:52, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

>> 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.
>
> There is a serial test stack at my web page that allows serial 
> communications using Macs (OS 9 or X) and Windows. It is very simple 
> and just opens a port using the specified parameters and allows you to 
> send a string, reading any incoming data from the serial port.
>
> I'll have to download the Mindstorm specs and try it with my Lego set.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
> sarahr at genesearch.com.au
> http://www.troz.net/Rev/