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| | | hello, i thought about controlling my video-recorder with the mindstorms ir tower. has anyone else ever tried something like that? my approach was to first read() from the tower while pressing the play button on the video's remote control; like (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: ir tower -> consumer electronics —James Pritchard
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| | | | | Have you tried taking readings from other IR controllers TV, Video, HI-FI. luzian scherrer <luzian@scherrer.ch> wrote in message news:Fto2xL.7BG@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: ir tower -> consumer electronics —Luzian Scherrer
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| | | | | | (...) yes, i did try a sony minidisk too. i don't have the results here, but it was quinte the same: "slight" variations for each repetition. (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: ir tower -> consumer electronics —Dean Husby
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| | | | | (...) It's because of the hertz or frequency of the Mindstorms receiver. It can't quite pick up up right and there for causes errors. It also can't send out what it received because it didn't catch the entire system... It's the same reason we can't (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: ir tower -> consumer electronics —Stephen F. Roberts
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| | | | (...) ...I was under the impression that the LEGO ir tower used a different theory of transmission than the ir ports in PCs (or on the palm pilot) [something about packet collection, but don't quote me!], so perhaps TV/VCR controllers use that same (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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