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Re: wireless RF RCX communication?
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Date: 
Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:02:37 GMT
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This may help, little expensive though.

http://www.parallaxinc.com/html_files/products/RF_Mods/RF_comparison.asp

-JohnG

Gareth Bestor wrote:

I've been thinking about how I might replace the RCX's IR communication with
something that doesn't require line-of-sight, eg using RF. I'm not much of an
analog hardware guy so I thought I'd ask about the feasability of it first...

I'm considering replacing the IR tower with a serial RF transceiver connected
to the serial port of the PC, eg along the lines of
http://www.connectionlab.com/elmo/ (which uses the Handyboard instead of the
RCX). On the RCX I'd have a similar circuit but the serial in/out connected to
an IR LED and phototransistor directly in front of the RCX's IR window to
convert the serial RF signal into a serial IR signal for the RCX. Sound
reasonable? What sort of pitfalls should I look out for?

Thanks,

- Gareth



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I've been thinking about how I might replace the RCX's IR communication with something that doesn't require line-of-sight, eg using RF. I'm not much of an analog hardware guy so I thought I'd ask about the feasability of it first... I'm considering (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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