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Subject: 
Serial Infrared Tower
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:33:31 GMT
Original-From: 
Steve Karg <steve@kargs#nomorespam#.net>
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Greetings!

I have a USB infrared tower that came with the Mindstorm kit, and
recently got an older laptop without USB (for free).  I haven't seen the
RS-232 infrared towers for sale, and was wondering if anyone has made a
serial circuit that mimics the tower that I can make for use on the laptop?

Or, can I use the Mindstorm Software (or other programming software)
with the built-in IRDA port (on an IBM ThinkPad)?

Any suggestions?

Steve



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Serial Infrared Tower
 
Don't know about the circuit, but you can buy them here: (URL) here: (URL) Karg" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3E4ACBBB.409090...rgs.net... (...) laptop? (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Serial Infrared Tower
 
If you have a free PCMCIA slot you may want to get a PCMCIA to USB adapter that can support multiple peripherals for a song. That way you could use multiple towers, or a tower and the LEGO Vision camera. - Mike Steve Karg <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Serial Infrared Tower
 
(...) here are schematics of the orginal tower (URL) Mientki (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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