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Subject: 
IR Collision avoidance
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:43:55 GMT
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Bill Rose <brose@ipa.netSTOPSPAM>
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Chris or anyone who cares to respond,

You put your message on the mailing list concerning the IR avoidance.  I
have a question about the hardware also.  How are the leds powered?  Are you
pulsing them some way or what?  I guess the decoder is what is wired into
the digital ports?  Am I right about this?  I just don't catch how you are
powering the leds.

Thanks,

Bill Rose
brose@ipa.net



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  Re: IR Collision avoidance
 
The Handyboard has a circuit (U7a, R4, C6) that generates a 38KHz signal. That drives an amplifier that then goes to J7, the IR LED output. If you hookup an IR LED to this jack (with a series resistor) then when you turn on TOC2 using ir_xmit_on() (...) (28 years ago, 24-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
  Re: IR Collision avoidance
 
(...) OK. (...) The transmitter is basically a modulator made from two 555 timer chips. One timer does 200-1000 Hz (we use 500) while the other does 38 KHz. On a scope, the output looks somewhat like.. |||...||| |||...||| |||...||| | | | | | | | | | (...) (28 years ago, 25-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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