Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Waterloo, IA USA
Posts: 10

I see that Acroname (http://www.acroname.com/) has finally begun shipping the Palm Pilot Robot Kit developed by the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~reshko/PILOT/). This little pup looks cool, but since it uses a serial input I'm curious as to whether it will work with a Visor. Has anyone tried it yet?

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney Australia
Posts: 1883

don't think it will work because the (USB) port of the visor is different than the (serial) port of the Palm(s)

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Registered: Dec 1999
Location:
Posts: 54

It should work fine if you get a serial cable that is available (check markspace.com). I have a serial cable that I built from plans posted in an old topic on this bbs, and have use it to communicate with modems and other electronic equipment at work. Do a search (see the search box at the top of visorcentrals main screen) on rs232 or serial cable and you should come up with something, sorry I do not have the URL's availble for you.

Anyway, if you can build the robot you should be able to get a serial cable to work.

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

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Originally posted by nitehawk
I have a serial cable that I built from plans posted in an old topic on this bbs, and have use it to communicate with modems and other electronic equipment at work.

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Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 103

mwaaahaa haha

I found a remote control tank at Toys-R-Us for $30 buck that uses both radio control and ....... IR control. So I am going to try to find the some palm IR source code. And then my robot tank($30 + cost of modifications(modifications should be like $5-10 max )) Will come for your Holonomic robot($250). And we will see who spent their evil genius allowence money more wisely.

btw found the link for that tank:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...2291654-8386163


Evil geniuses kick ass.

Bane