
LJ
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I have a few of the original Lego Mindstorms Kits RIS 1.0. These kits came with a few electric motors. Has anyone connected these motors to the EZ-B and if so, how?
Thanks
I just happened to see this old thread and now I'm wondering the same thing. I know EZ landed a contract/sale with Texas who was/is using Mindstorms (MS). It would be really neat if they could use some of those motors. That way at least all of the MS stuff won't go to waste or have to be sold off or something.
I know very little about MS other than they are made by Lego. Is there anybody with some MS experience on the forums? Would someone be able to maybe just hook those motors up to an H-Bridge?
I just saw this was never answered and figured it may be more relevant due to the Texas deal.
Thanks for indulging me.
Saying that, I am sure that there could be a link made between the EZ-B and the mindstorm stuff, it would only need a serial to IR device and the correct serial data to replicate the mindstorm signals, I so similar though my PC to have it communicate with a number of IR controlled appliances. I don't know of a device off hand which will work with the EZ-B since I've not looked in to that but I am sure something would work.
I still built my first prototypes with lego using my ezb for the programming part.
That is why I have built a bunch of sensors in lego-'costumes', like that they are very quickly put together for a test setup.