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Re: Info on HP48 calculator and RCX working together?
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 8 Jan 2001 19:11:24 GMT
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ihatespam
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Thank you for the information Shawn.
I am dissapointed that the HP48 and RCX are not better suited to
communicate together, but I am quite happy I learned this information
the "easy" way. :)
I might take this project on at some point in the future. If I do I
will post my intent here.
Thanks again!
-Andy
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:08:34 GMT, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Shawn
Menninga) wrote:
> At 02:29 PM 1/6/01 +0000, you wrote:
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> > Does anyone know of any info on the web about using an HP48 series
> > calculator with the RCX? Using the calculators processing ability or
> > memory, or things like that? Using IR to communicate between the 2.
> >
> > I have found some people talking about exploring this possiblity, but
> > I havent found any info about someone persuing it.
>
> Getting the HP to talk to the RCX is possible, although it requires
> a lot of assembler programming on the HP. I was playing with it for
> a while, but never managed to stabilize it--crashed my HP I don't know
> how many times. If somebody wants to play with it, I'll make it
> available, but with HUGE caveats about what it might do to your HP.
>
> The other way, RCX to HP is nigh unto impossible. The HP's IR
> receiver is severely crippled--can only receive from a few inches
> away at best--and is not designed to handle 40KHz carrier IR. It
> might be possible, but it'd be a real nightmare--probably require
> some sort of hardware assist on the HP end to be at all useful.
>
> -SMQ Shawn Menninga smq@dwarfrune.com
> --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--
> "...to live deliberately...to put to rout all that [is] not life, and not,
> when I [have] come to die, discover that I [have] not lived." -- H. D. T.
>
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