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"John A. Tamplin" wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Dean Husby wrote:
>
> > > > > (WITH the exclusion of the Agenda, which you (if you know
> > > > > C) can program yourself, writing ASM hardware controls).
> > >
> > > The device drivers for the CIR port are being written right now - once those
> > > are done, you won't need assembler to drive the port. Since it's mapped onto
> > > /dev/ttyS<something>, it's pretty likely that NQC will need nothing more than
> > > a recompile to make it run and drive the CIR port.
>
> I have not received my Agenda yet, but from the mailing list discussions it
> is not clear how easily the Agenda will be able to receive non-IrDA IR
> communications. There is an SIR port for input, but I don't know what
> constraints it has.
[Cross posted to lugnet.robotics.palm]
For the Agenda VR3d (Developer/Tech version) it's only $179 USD. That's an incredible
price for what you get. Even If I had to create one of them little serial IR devices
that someone mentioned being able to do, that would make me happy. But if I could use
NQC with the built in IR ports even if it was only a couple of inches would make me
VERY happy.
> For learning remotes, you can always hook up
> something like Irman to the serial port, but that would be less useful for
> interfacing to the RCX.
I've been reading all I can on the Agenda but so far all I can find out is that it
has a serial port and a Keyboard/app slot. I haven't seen if it has any other slots
like a compact flash port or something like the springboard type slots.
Dean
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| (...) I actually own one of these devices - and I agree that it's *just* the very thing for Lego robotics. Some caveats: * Whilst it has a 'Commercial IR' port and an 'iRDA' port - the CIR is output-only. It's generally believed that the input iRDA (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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