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RE: Elimating the need for the IR tower
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:05:30 GMT
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> I traced out the circuitry in the tower a couple of months back
> to make sure it didn't have any clever tricks up its sleeve.
> It doesn't!
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> The upshot of all this is I think you could build a cable which plugs into
> the PC's serial port and which hides the 38kHz oscillator on a small
> board in the DB9 hood.
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> I wonder if there is enough interest in something like this to make it
> worth building and publishing the details (assuming it works ;)
John,
This would be neat in the short term, especially for little
PDAs and such that don't have a standard DB9.
But the biggest benefit (in my opinion) would be in classrooms.
With a low power transmitter, there would be much less interference
between the student's robots, which was a big pain when I did a summer
workshop
with pbForth and the RCX.
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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