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| | | I asked the wrong question earlier. I *do* want to use a windows machine. I *do not* want to use the Legos RCX windows software. So, is there any windows shareware that will allow me to download the firmware file? Thanks, billq (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: How to download firmware file (non-Windows approach?) —Eric Brok
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| | | | | lego-robotics@crynwr.com wrote in message <852566BE.002B8A23.0...am.com>... (...) It's a feature of Mind Control. Copy the firmware file on your cd-rom into the Mind Control directory before doing this. LEGO on my mind Mindstorms/Mind Control (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: How to download firmware file (non-Windows approach?) —Kekoa Proudfoot
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| | | | (...) Oop, that means I answered the wrong question earlier. To answer your new question, you need to find some documentation on using the OCX, then you need to write up a program that downloads the firmware using that. I don't know of any (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Direct control of IRDA —Chai Chin Loon
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| | | | Anyone knows how to control the IRdA port directly in Win95/98? With direct control, we can control/receive RCX and other IR devices directly without using the tower. (26 years ago, 17-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Direct control of IRDA —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Part of the trick is that the RCX doesn't use irda at all... (26 years ago, 18-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Direct control of IRDA —CyberUser
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| | | | In message <slrn754ka8.5r2.matt...a.bu.edu>, Matthew Miller <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> writes (...) What then? give us a clue. (26 years ago, 18-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Direct control of IRDA —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Check here: (URL) all nicely described. (26 years ago, 18-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Direct control of IRDA —Matthew Bates
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| | | | (...) Well, I read all that and I'm still none the wiser, has anyone talked to an RCX using a Windows PC's IrDA ? Matt (26 years ago, 18-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Direct control of IRDA —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Short answer -- the IR protocol used by the RCX is more akin to that used in TV remotes than it is to the IrDA standard. If you could talk to your IR port directly, you could probably do that. But mostly, the low-level functionality is hidden (...) (26 years ago, 19-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Direct control of IRDA —Tony Firshman
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| | | | In article <slrn75745o.9uh.matt...a.bu.edu>, Matthew Miller <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> writes (...) He he - how about using a digital watch then - the ones that can 'learn' TV operation. Now having said that flippantly, now 'we' are able to write (...) (26 years ago, 19-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Direct control of IRDA —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Yes, learning remotes have been trained to send the IR messages. No problem. (26 years ago, 19-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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