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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 (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Communicating with IR tower —Andy Shaw
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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)
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| | | | | | | Re: Communicating with IR tower —Peter Hesketh
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| | | | | | | In article <F3qx1G.FCw@lugnet.com>, Andy Shaw <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> writes (...) Do you just call subroutines in the spirit.ocx? Is there a spec for the spirit api? (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: Communicating with IR tower —Chris Osborn
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| | | | | | Unfortunately, to do it without polling from the computer periodically would be difficult, simply because the IR tower turns itself off after inactivity. However, if you happen to have one of those Mindpath remotes, the ones that come with the IR (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Communicating with IR tower —Laurentino Martins
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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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