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Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 1 Jul 1999 01:54:25 GMT
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Joel Shafer <joel@connect^antispam^.net>
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At 10:37 PM 6/30/99 +0000, Chris Phillips wrote:
> ...
> contents of a previously-written file. This would require that a server
> application be running on the PC to handle these file requests. The server
> would have to constantly be "talking" just so that it could keep on
> "listening" for requests from the RCX. I don't know if you've ever noticed,
> but it's a lot harder to hear with your mouth wide open.
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> Some folks over in the LegOS camp are trying to implement a network
> protocol for the RCX to enable robots to send more detailed information
> packets around than the one-byte messages supported by the RCX firmware. It
> sounds like they're trying to figure out how the computer fits into this
> network, but they've been running into some very tricky problems because the
> tower has such a bad case of narcolepsy.
Wouldn't it be easier to "fix" the tower than to work around it's narcolepsy?
Joel Shafer joel@connect.net
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| Joel Shafer wrote... (...) narcolepsy? Yes and no. It would probably be easy for TLG to redesign the tower to fix this problem. (While they are at it, they should also supply power to the tower from the supply voltage pin available on the RS-232 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch?
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| (...) tower is that automatically powers itself off after 2 or 3 seconds of use. (...) tower because it only "listens" to messages when it's powered on. I've read the messages about the IR Tower powering off and people trying to keep them ON, but I (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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