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Subject:	Driving the IR tower.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics
Date:	Sun, 11 Feb 2001 01:01:09 GMT
Original-From:	Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail%avoidspam%.net>
Reply-To:	sjbaker1@airmailSTOPSPAM.net
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I'm trying to drive the IR tower from a C program running on a Linux PC. I find that the IR receiver only operates when the green light is on - and that only seems to go for a split second after I send characters to the tower from the PC. The trouble with this is that I want to write a program that passively listens to the IR data stream between an RCX and a Scout without sending anything to mess up what they are saying. -- Steve Baker HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1 Projects : http://plib.sourceforge.net http://tuxaqfh.sourceforge.net http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net http://freeglut.sourceforge.net

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		Re: Driving the IR tower.
You may just have to send out grabage that the RCX and Scout are programmed not to recognize and deal with, or make your own "tower" that just has infrared transistors on the end of it. This is a major problem for many things, and no way has been (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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