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Re: wireless RF RCX communication?
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 16 Jan 2002 05:03:14 GMT
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There are devices sold by Radio Shack/Future Shop/etc called (i think)
"remote extenders". Basically, they have 2 pieces. 1 is an infrared
receiver and radio transmitter, and the other is a radio reciever and ir
transmitter.
I think they are one-way only though.
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...
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> 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?
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> Thanks,
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> - 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 (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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