Sunday, April 22, 2018

Legos

About 16 years ago, I collected some Lego sets.  A small variety, the Robotics Invention System 1.5 and 2.0, a couple of Droid Developer kits, a darkside kit, some misc. blocks, the Bionicle Manas set.

Recently, I thought about upgrading my lego micro computer blocks the something newer.  The Lego NXT, and EV3, sets seem kinda beyond my current budget...So I thought about what else can I do?  What do I have available? 

   RCXs: 2 (a 1.5, and a 2.0)
   Spybot: 1
   Bionicle Manas: 2 (one set)
   Microscouts: 3

I also have:

  Android phones: 2 (plus one I use everyday).
  Android Tablets: 2

Maybe I can program the RCXs to accept commands from my android devices...

On the Android devices, I do write some programs in a language called: RFO Basic!  It is on the play store.  We also have a forum on tapatalk.  HERE   Do check it out!  (Before you laugh, this is a fully modern BASIC that can access the sensors on your android phone.  Really cool!) 

My current idea:

  I could write control programs in RFO basic, which would use bluetooth to talk to an Arduino, and it would use IR to talk to the RCXs/etc.  It could also use small LEDs to control the microscouts...







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