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Subject: 
Re: Boosting the IR Signal Info
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:01:42 GMT
Original-From: 
John Barnes <barnes@sensors/spamless/.com>
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I have been watching this thread with great interest, having
struggled almightily to solve the problem myself.

I would like an explanation of how a one directional "extender"
of one sort or another (IR or RF) is going to work with the
RCX which requires two way communications.

I suspect the average booster, if used in pairs, nose to tail
so to speak, would simply feed back on its own signal and
not correctly handle two way communications.

I await enlightenment .... (excuse the pun ;)

JB



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Boosting the IR Signal Info
 
Hi John, of course you're right. (I really didn't think about it that far !) This might (will ?!?) result in a feedback-loop (like holding a microphone in front of the speaker the microphone works for) The only way to avoid this will be to optically (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics)
  RE: Boosting the IR Signal Info
 
It appears to me that the solutions provided so far are 2 way. You have two devices, each one is a transceiver/receiver. The IR Tower talks to one, it translates to radio signal, send the signal to the other device, and then the other device (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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