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RE: Problems with RCX Robolab and PowerMacs 6400/200 and 5500/225
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:31:23 GMT
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Al & Becky Szymanski <aszy@worldnet.att.net+SayNoToSpam+>
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I also had a ton of difficulties UNTIL I turned the darn florescent lights
off in the student lab - only for as long as it took to do the load.
Everything worked fine.
OAON: The L2 cache dosen't affect serial port.
> I've snipped all of the text about how RoboLab and the Mac might
> not play nicely together.
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> I have had great results with my own system at my office, and then
> when I did the tutorial at MIT, things failed miserably. I turned off
> the large screen TV in the room, and everything worked great!
>
> At my office, I keep the tower BEHIND the monitor. I am now
> thinking that the screen flicker (invisible to us) is VERY visible
> to the RCX. Also, I had a camcorder interfere with my RCX, the autofocus
> uses an infrared beam too.
>
> There may be LOTS of IR interfering with your lab, so a quick inexpensive
> test (if the green light in the tower is on) is to cover the towen and
> bot with a cardboard box.
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