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Originally Posted by AlexW
In a nutshell, companies create 3rd party tools which basically expose their hardware and software as web services. This allows you to control your Robot remotely via Web Services and Messages, thus putting all of the processing on a separate computer. Your robot transmits data back to the computer, and using your own high-level programming language, you decide what you want to do with that data. ]
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Do you know where I can find the documentation on how these services work? Is there standardization between them? The only easy way to talk to the Innovation FIRST controllers is through the serial port. I know the Lego RCX bricks work in a similar way, so maybe I can salvage some code from that service on the PC end.
What I'm hoping to do is either find a defined protocol or come up with my own to communicate with the FIRST controller. From there it will be easy to write a robot side driver which simply takes all of the incoming motor and relay values, and writes them to their corresponding output.