Re: Hardware Programming and Perl

would this be possible/efficient to do in Perl?

Sure. See LEGO-RCX module.

everything from controlling the motors, reading sensors, modifying program variables, and getting data form the DataLog

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Re: Re: Hardware Programming and Perl by dbp (Pilgrim) on Oct 28, 2002 at 18:12 UTC
I doubt they are using Mindstorms. Typically, Universities use a kit of sensors and motors (with a C API) that just "happen" to connect nicely to Legos.	[reply]
Re: Re: Hardware Programming and Perl by Willman023 (Scribe) on Oct 28, 2002 at 17:43 UTC
Thanks, I never thought there would be module for Lego Robots!	[reply]