brickbot/linx

Control a Lego robot via Perl scripts from a webserver or console

Linx

Control a Lego robot via a webserver or console

Archive of Original Website

How to prepare a Lego robot to be controled via the web (on a win32 System):

I. Required Software:

• A web server (e.g. Apache - http://www.apache.org)
• Perl 5.0 (or newer) for win32 (http://www.perl.com/)
• Perl modules:
  • Win32::API (version used was 0.011)
  • Win32::SerialPort (version used was 0.18)
    • Linux version of SerialPort – Device::SerialPort
  • NOTE: Subsequent to this project’s original release, there is also the Lego::RCX module
• nqc
• linx.nqc, linxServer.pl

II. Setup: A. Connect the tower to a serial-port - Open a dos-console and set the variable RCX_PORT to the port * set RCX_PORT=COM1 (or COM2) B. Load linx.nqc to the robot using nqc.exe - nqc -c -d linx.nqc C. Install and run the webserver and connect to linx.html D. Run the linx-Server - perl linxServer.pl E. Ready

III. Troubles:

• joreg [at] testphase.at

IV. Also available:

• talkrcx.pl: A Perl program to communicate with a LEGO RCX
  • talkrcx.pl by Paul Haas archive of Paul’s original website
• cybertalk.pl: A Perl program to communicate with a LEGO CyberMaster
  • By jörg dießl (joreg [at] testphase.at), based on talkrcx.pl by Paul Haas