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Re: Which Palm?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:43:55 GMT
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Martin <martin@mediax#ihatespam#.com>
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martin@mediaxSPAMLESS.com
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John Barnes wrote:
> Something doesn't make sense to me here .....
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> IF someone sells a piece of software which allows the Palm to
> learn and speak "arbitrary remotese", then there has to be low level
> software control over the port.
Not really. The guy who does OmniRemote is a friend of mine (I had the
springboard module before they were on the market, nyah nyah) :) and it
was extremely non-trivial for him to support the IR, and it continues to
be non-trivial to support the IR on new devices. He's at a lower level
than the IR API.
> Doesn't that mean that who ever knows how to write that code could
> also write routines to transmit and receive RCXese?
He could, and if he got paid enough to do it or if there were a big
enough market, he probably would. He's quite capable of reverse
engineering the IR stream to and from the RCX/Scout/Et cetera, and if
there's other open source code which isn't protected by a restrictive
license like the GPL, he could probably get quite a jump on it.
> So are we waiting around for someone out there in lugnet land who's a
> Palm expert to craft something suitable?
Maybe if a poll were to be taken OFF OF THE MAILING LIST (Let's minimize
pointless traffic, folks) of how many people were interested in PAYING
for a piece of software like this (I suspect it would be fairly
inexpensive. Compilers would be someone else's problem, but porting a
compiler for RCX code to the Palm would be a lot easier than doing the
IR work) it might produce some results. Ostensibly, he would probably
just be creating an API using the code from OmniRemote that would let
you send lego messages. I imagine it would also be possible to load code
into the RCX or what have you from the palm, though that would certainly
take a while longer.
> As soon as someone publishes the URL of the IRda routines, I am going
> out to buy one of the little beasties. But until it can talk to my
> RCX, it can
> wait on the store shelf.
I seem to recall a piece of software called something like IRMan which
would do IrDA over palm IR. That may not be the name of it. If that's
all you're looking for, you may be covered already. Does legOS or
something similar do IrDA? NQC? Anything?
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