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Re: Driving the IR tower.
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Sun, 11 Feb 2001 12:39:05 GMT
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Original-From:
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Andy Gombos <gombos_2000@*StopSpam*yahoo.com>
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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 found (yet) to get around it without sending
anything out.
Andy
Steve Baker wrote:
> I'm trying to drive the IR tower from a C program running on a Linux PC.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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