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Re: Info request
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 1 Sep 2000 17:28:59 GMT
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Take a look at the original reverse engineering of the RCX at
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kekoa/rcx/
The best site for the internals of the RCX with pictures....
Ram
PS: You could probably just use wireless serial radio modems for this!
It works as follows:
PC--->serial transmitter/receiver tower---->serial
transmitter/receiver
Just keep the tower next to the RCX....
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Barnes" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
To: <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 4:01 PM
Subject: Info request
> Ok, enough's enough! I'm going to take a crack at the
> IR - RF link thing for the RCX. I'm not promising it's
> going to be pretty (or cheap) though! But I'll try.
>
> First of all, a question -
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> Does anybody know if the schematics for the RCX and
> more importantly the tower are on the net anywhere?
> It could save me a lot of time if I could bypass the reverse
> engineering phase.
>
> JB
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| (...) Well, as I imagined the device, it just translates the IR into RF and back. This way you can't only use it between tower and RCX but also in comms between two RCX'es, which is exactly what I want to do. I don't have any experience in (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Ok, enough's enough! I'm going to take a crack at the IR - RF link thing for the RCX. I'm not promising it's going to be pretty (or cheap) though! But I'll try. First of all, a question - Does anybody know if the schematics for the RCX and more (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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