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Infra-Red
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:06:09 GMT
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Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões <albie@&ihatespam&alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt>
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Hi!
I've read this mailing list homepage, but I can't figure if there any
good chances to make my RCX from 1.5 to work directly with the IR
dispositive from the laptop.
The reason is that my laptop doesn't have a serial port. Lego says IR
and USB<->Serial does not work... but I don't want to buy 2.0 to get the
USB tower.
My chances are, then:
using IR directly from the laptop (if possible, Linux)
use a serial to usb conversor (it works?)
buy a PCMCIA card with serial ports (does it works?)
I would like suggestions... thanks
Alberto
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Alberto Manuel B. Simoes
Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/~albie - http://numexp.sf.net
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Infra-Red
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| Lego Dacta sells a usb IR tower. You can also get one if you purchase Mindstorms 2.0 set. Mindstorms 2.0 software upgrade is available from Lego (or was when I bought mine). You will have to have the software upgrade to make the usb IR tower work. (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Infra-Red
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| (...) No, there aren't. (...) The USB tower doesn't work well with Linux for the moment. (...) I've no experience, but I think both should work. A PCMCIA card should be easy to set up (from the computer side it should look like a modem), for the USB (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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