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Re: Receiving IR data
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 14 Apr 2001 16:13:53 GMT
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hi James,
James Matthews wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm new to the group, so I'm not too sure what's on and off topic: if this
> is off-topic, sorry in advance.
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> I was looking at using the IR tower that comes with Mindstorms for my own
> use, but I also wanted to experiment using it to communicate with the RCX
> manually. I'm using C++ and VC++ 6.0 to develop the application. In the
> application I'm using PJ Naughter's CSerialPort class to access the serial
> port and send data to the RCX. Now, I can successfully *send* data but I
> can't seem to receive it...when I try and read from the serial port it just
> echos what was sent.
That's a trick Lego uses to test the quality of the battery in the IR-tower, according to the spirit.ocx documentatie (see TowerAlive method).
I'll think you have to wait a little longer to receive something or maybe wait between every byte ??
(thanks for the information on your site, I'll you know if I find more information or have experiences)
>
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> Does anybody have any experience with C++ and IR communication with the RCX
> (or IR in general).
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> Thanks,
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> James.
>
> - James Matthews
> Generation5: http://www.generation5.org/
> "...At the forefront of Artificial Intelligence..."
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| Hi there, Thanks Stef for that *very useful* piece of information, I've now cracked it and wrote up a little article on it: (URL) is only preliminary, but I thought people might like to see it. There is some C++ code snippets and the protocol (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi there, I'm new to the group, so I'm not too sure what's on and off topic: if this is off-topic, sorry in advance. I was looking at using the IR tower that comes with Mindstorms for my own use, but I also wanted to experiment using it to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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