Issue 79
October 1st 2009 |
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LEGO Mindstorms and Rev Robotics
The first library to control Mindstorms Robots from Rev is born at RunRevLive
A few years ago I was looking for a control and motor system that could be used to power a motorised tripod head for shooting 360 degree panoramas from the top of a tall pole. Mindstorms NXT plus some off-the-shelf aluminium structural members did the trick quite nicely. I ended up with a motorised head which you could control via a mobile phone, but not in a very sophisticated manner - more than ‘drive’ and ‘start running program x’, but not by much.
So phone-to-brick communication works, but the plan had always been to use Rev to build a more fully-featured interface for direct computer control, via serial port communications...
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RunRev have recently received coverage on Business7, a UK news site, RunRev aims to boost programming sector. Read the article in full. |
How do you know if your open document has been saved or what kind of document it is, at a glance? This article takes a look at a couple of Mac OS X features and see how to add them to your Revolution applications using the "ssMacWindows" external. |
Quartam Reports Webinar Invite Join us on October 6th, at 7pm BST (8pm for most of Europe, 2pm Eastern for US viewers) for a free walkthrough by Jan Schenkel of this powerful piece of software. We will also be giving out a generous 33% discount coupon at the Webinar. |