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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:47:28 -0700
From: Kathleen Sullivan <ksulliva@seattleu.edu>

Subject: Len's address

This is where to get more information or order the serial interface for con-
trolling lego motors and sensors:

Len Erickson
905 S. Springer Rd.
Los Altos, CA 94024
415-949-2126
CompuServe75500,2027

The interface is similar to the one used by Lego-logo.  The Bots interface has
4 motor ports and 4 sensor ports.  (BTW, we got all 4 sensor ports to work with
the lego optical sensor)  In addition to the sensor state and state cycle count
provided by the Lego-Logo interface, the Bots interface also provides the cycle
"rate," and allows for callibration of optical sensor sensitivity.

The interface can control other things as well, such as Capsella.

Bots produces HyperCard based software for use with the interface on the Mac.
The documentation describes the interface's command protocol (although there
are a few mistakes) well enough so that the interface can be controlled from
any programming language capable of serial I/O.  As I understand it, there a
a few versions of Scheme which support this interface.

I am working on software to control the interface from the M2Amiga Modula-2
language on the Amiga.  I may also provide software for PCQ, a public domain
Pascal compiler for the Amiga.

Sr. Sullivan and I have been doing alot of things with Lego-Logo materials, and
would be happy to discus them.

ksulliva@seattleu.edu
rrogers@cs.washington.edu