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Laptop IR
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Thu, 17 Feb 2000 01:46:16 GMT
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Original-From:
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James Stanton <jbs@IHATESPAMparsons.edu>
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Hello,
Does anyone know how to control the brick with the built in IR port of a
Dell laptop instead of the tower?
Thanks for your consideration.
jim
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Laptop IR
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| Jim, I asked this question a few weeks ago, about an Apple PowerBook IR port.... This is the response I got from Dave Baum: ------- In theory it may be possible, but in practice it hasn't been done. The reason is that the PB uses IrDA (it also (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Controlling a Unimat lathe
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| (...) Ya, go buy a stepper motor... The problems would be backlash and power. Even the best (IE, using a 1:40 reduction, with the angle mesured on the imput shaft) would likely put out too little power. Backlash is the harder one...you could (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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