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IR to PC
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 1 Sep 1999 03:37:09 GMT
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Joel Shafer <JOEL@nospamCONNECT.NET>
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Has anyone had any luck getting the RCX to communicate with a PC IR device
(such as a laptop's IR port)? From my feeble understanding, it would take
either writing the IRDA protocol on the RCX via LegOS, or writing a device
driver on the PC side to code the lego IR protocol. Is this correct, and
has anyone done this or even attempted it?
I've got a Cassio E-10 and I would love to program the RCX with it.
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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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: IR to PC
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| (...) It is my understanding that IrDA and the RCX use totally different carrier frequencies for the IR ports, and thus are incompatible at a much more basic hardware level. This has been discussed in great detail in the past, so I recommend (...) (25 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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