10/01/2002
5:45 PM

 

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Frankentosh: Building Robots using Mac OS X
 
   
  • Mindstorms -- Introduction
    • Mindstorms is a Lego system built as part of Lego's Technics line
      • Technics allows for building more sophisticated models using gears, pulleys, wheels, axels and motors
    • Mindstorms is centered around a programmable brick called an "RCX"
      • Using an IR tower, the user can download programs into the RCX
      • RCX contains input and output ports to which attach sensors & motors/lights
      • Programs use the sensor input, and change the output accordingly
 
   
Ted Stevko, Stevko Studios http://www.plasticnoodle.com