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Re: IR Tower problems
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:31:30 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Greg Ericksen writes:
> I recently purchased an IR tower to use with my Scout. It did not come
> with a cable, but the tower was only 6$(www.eblok.com), so I found a cable
> that could plug into the back of it. The other end of the cable fit into the
> printer plug on the back of my computer.
> I do not know if this will work, because when using Scouttool from the
> SDK, it says that the ghost cannot be initialized. I was wondering if there
> is anyway that I could find out if my computer recognizes the IR tower.
> If anyone knows how to test this, please reply.
> Thank You,
> Greg Ericksen
I think it could probably work with the printr port. But what I would do is
get a serial to printer port adapter or buy another wire which ever is
cheapest. I have a wire that runs out the serial port with a 25 pin(i
think) connection then an adapter 25 pin to 9 pin. And i plug the gray ir
tower into that. It really makes no difference and I don't think you could
break it by trying it in your printer port.
Just make sure you get the right kind of adapter, check if it need pins or
holes with both ends.
Trevor Foley
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| (...) Don't try this at home kids !!!...!!! NO ! This can't work !! The printerport is as parallel port and not a serial port. The availablity of the IR-tower is checked by using the serial handshake line. This can't work with printerport ! (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I recently purchased an IR tower to use with my Scout. It did not come with a cable, but the tower was only 6$(www.eblok.com), so I found a cable that could plug into the back of it. The other end of the cable fit into the printer plug on the back (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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