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Communicating with IR tower
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:50:42 GMT
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John Fronckowiak <JOHN@IDCC.ihatespamNET>
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Has anyone developed any applications that allow the RCX to communicate
back to your PC via the IR tower, analogous to the way two RCXs can
communicate with each other. This would be useful to allow the robot to
return to the IR tower for "new instructions".
John Fronckowiak
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Communicating with IR tower
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| Hi John, I've been doing this for a while with the Cybermaster. You can simple use the SetVar and Poll commands in immediate mode via the OCX to read and set variables in the brick. Add a bit of handshaking and you have a communications mechanism (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Communicating with IR tower
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| (...) Have you already done this? (detect out of range situations?) I'd really would like to know how did you do it! I also have a CyberMaster and I'm working with NQCC and with the Spirit.OCX in VC++. Thanks! Laurentino Martins (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | autostart of program in mindstorm
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| Hi, Once a program has been transferred to a Mindstorm (or Cybermaster) is it possible to start it from the PC without pressing the run/stop buton on the pBrick? CU Bert (URL) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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