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hi list! i want to send a single-byte message from the serial ir-tower to the rcx, preferrably with visual basic. a program running on the host pc should send/recieve message to/from the rcx. what i found up to now is: - sending messages from the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Mat, (...) WHY ? That's what it's made for ! Rainer (I use it with VC++ 6.0) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) :) (...) Download the new Mindstorms SDK for the 2.0 firmware ((URL) It's really, really cool and it allows you to do all kinds of things that take advantage of the new firmware. (Interestingly enough, both of the following methods are (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Those would be the RCX "mailbox" messages...the ones that RCXs send to one another using SendPBMessage. Spirit.OCX can do lots of things, but it can't cause the IR tower to send messages to the RCX. --Ian (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have had no trouble sending "message()" messages to the RCX by simply sending the correct sequence of bytes directly to the COM port. Is there some reason you can't do this? JB (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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My replacement for spirit.ocx does not yet support sending messages to the RCX, but it would only take 10 min to add it. (It is planned, but first I am working on cloning spirit.ocx). As for receiving, the IR tower shuts down to fast to reliably (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I don't think you can with only Spirit.OCX. I think you need the capability of the new SDK. Have you been able to send bytecodes using Spirit, or are you using another tool? --Ian (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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