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Subject: 
Re: Using laptop IR Port instead of the IR Tower
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Date: 
Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:21:45 GMT
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"Matthew Ramadanovic" <matthew.ramadanovic@yale.edu> writes:

I would like to get rid of the IR tower and use the
built-in IR port on the Laptop. Is this possible?

No.  LEGO and IrDA signals are modulated differently.

Jürgen

--
Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/



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  Re: Using laptop IR Port instead of the IR Tower
 
Folks, Thanks for all the responses. It is too bad though. -Matt (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Using laptop IR Port instead of the IR Tower
 
Hey folks, Has anyone been able to use a Thinkpad IR Port to talk to the RCX? I have been programming the RCX using spirit.ocx. All is well with the IR Tower connected to a serial port. I would like to get rid of the IR tower and use the built-in IR (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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