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Subject:	Re: Controling NXT with Bluetooth Device(such as mouse, etc)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics
Date:	Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:29:34 GMT
Original-From:	Cian <cianism@gmail.com+NoMoreSpam+>
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Steve Hassenplug wrote: > > > This is not an easy thing to do. > > While the mouse may support bluetooth, the signals are not the same as > what > the NXT is expecting. The mouse sends Human Interface Device (HID) > signals, > while the NXT expects Serial Port Protocal (SPP). > > Simply put, they don't speak the same language. > > Steve > > Thank you for answering :-) How about putting a Bluetooth-Dongle to NXT? It will receive HID signal, but dongle will translate the signal into NXT-usable one. I think it will work, how do you think? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Controling-NXT-with-Bluetooth-Device%28such-as-mouse%2C-etc%29-tf3078517.html#a8562594 Sent from the LEGO Robotics mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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		Re: Controling NXT with Bluetooth Device(such as mouse, etc)
(...) That actually doesn't address the real problem. The NXT has a "dongle" built-in, so it can receive the Bluetooth messages. It just can't understand what it reads. The NXT requires a very specific message format, and that's not what the mouse (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: Controling NXT with Bluetooth Device(such as mouse, etc)
(...) The problem is the NXT is a USB-slave device: it does not provide either the power (5V) or the communications ability to run a BT dongle (this is a seperate issue from the "shape" of the USB port: that's just a bit of hardware shaping to keep (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)

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		Re: Controling NXT with Bluetooth Device(such as mouse, etc)
(...) This is not an easy thing to do. While the mouse may support bluetooth, the signals are not the same as what the NXT is expecting. The mouse sends Human Interface Device (HID) signals, while the NXT expects Serial Port Protocal (SPP). Simply (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)

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