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| Hi, I was wondering if anyone has ever worked out a way of communicating direct with the RCX (via serial), rather than using the IR tower. The way I am using the RCX, it is sort of strapped to a notebook computer, so having to use the IR tower just (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: Elimating the need for the IR tower
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| (...) I don't think so. Common wisdom was that it is impossible, until recently. Then someone mentioned that a common spec for PCs (PC97) requires IR chips to support a mode called Consumer Electronics IR (CEIR) that could talk to an RCX. See for (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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