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Subject:	Re: Duplex Comms with RCX
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
Date:	Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:51:52 GMT
Reply-To:	MATTDM@nomorespamMATTDM.ORG
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Kekoa Proudfoot <kekoa@pixel.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > The biggest issue you might run into is the fact that the IR tower used by > the PC times out if it doesn't transmit anything for a few seconds. Unless > you have constant back-and-forth communication, either the PC will have to > initiate most of the communication or the PC will have to occasionally send > junk to keep the IR tower active. Dave had mentioned making a listen mode w/ keep-alive in a future version of nqc. But I don't think he's gotten around to that yet. -- Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/ Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/

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		Re: Duplex Comms with RCX
(...) Not that there's any pressure or anything. :) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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		Re: Duplex Comms with RCX
(...) Yes. Note that it is only half-duplex. You probably expected that. (...) The biggest issue you might run into is the fact that the IR tower used by the PC times out if it doesn't transmit anything for a few seconds. Unless you have constant (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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