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Re: IR Tower
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:15:39 GMT
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Original-From:
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Ian Hall-Beyer <manuka@nerdherd.=IHateSpam=net>
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On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, dave madden wrote:
> Anybody else interested in using a non-Lego(r) IR adapter? Now that I
> think of it, I bet you could use the IR ports that are becoming
> standard on laptops, and I think the Palm-III has one too.
They all have an extremely limited range, however. IrDA is designed to
work at distances of < 1m. You can, however, get a high-power IR booster
for the palmpilot, so as to use it as an A/V remote control.
-Ian
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| Hi. I have a Puma IR adapter that I think is fairly generic -- it was provided to work with a Sony digital camera, but it receives regular IR remote control transmissions, and *almost* works with my RCX. However, it appears that the LEGO(r) IR tower (...) (26 years ago, 22-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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