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Re: Even more remote controls
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:45:49 GMT
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Previously, you (Franz-Michael S. Mellbin) wrote:
At an earlier point and time some people thought it would be possible to use a
standard remote control with the RCX. I have a nice stack of remotes from B&O,
SONY, Phillips, Creative Labs, Panasonic, Aiwa, Mitsubishi  etc. and I have
bombarded the RCX with seemingly no useful results (almost no responses).

I have also asked some of the "pioneers" for follow-ups to their projects but
without result.

Before I try to get a Lego remote sent out here (the so-called Lego "World"
Shop does not cover China!) I would like to know if anyone ever found a working
non-Lego remote control solution?

You probably won't find a preprogrammed remote that works with the RCX. Most of these
use a 11 or 14 bit command (this for some remotes can vary between 1 and 64 bits)
where as the rcx uses 8 bits with start and stop bits just as on a PC serial port.
Also to add to this most remotes use bi-phase or pulse width modulation where as
the RCX uses DASK (Digital Amplitude Shift Keying).

I would hazard a guess that the contoller in the Lego remote is a micro-controller
that transmits canned messages which are the same as those transmitted by the tower.


Thank you for any advice.

Franz-Michael S. Mellbin


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