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Re: Infra-Red
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:32:27 GMT
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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. This is all of what I did. The tower I believe
cost 20-30 bucks, and the software was another 20-30 (can't remember the
fine details). Its only money, just go make some more! ;-)
-Rob
"Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message
news:1016813169.17654.125.camel@scriptorium...
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
--
Alberto Manuel B. Simoes
Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/~albie - http://numexp.sf.net
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| (...) I have a Xircom USB to Serial adapter (DB9) and it works fine with the RIS 1.0/1.5 Serial Tower. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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