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Re: Searching for alternatives
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Date: 
Sun, 4 Feb 2001 00:21:28 GMT
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"John A. Tamplin" wrote:

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Dean Husby wrote:

(WITH the exclusion of the Agenda, which you (if you know
C) can program yourself, writing ASM hardware controls).

The device drivers for the CIR port are being written right now - once those
are done, you won't need assembler to drive the port.  Since it's mapped onto
/dev/ttyS<something>, it's pretty likely that NQC will need nothing more than
a recompile to make it run and drive the CIR port.

I have not received my Agenda yet, but from the mailing list discussions it
is not clear how easily the Agenda will be able to receive non-IrDA IR
communications.  There is an SIR port for input, but I don't know what
constraints it has.

[Cross posted to lugnet.robotics.palm]

For the Agenda VR3d (Developer/Tech version) it's only $179 USD. That's an incredible
price for what you get.  Even If I had to create one of them little serial IR devices
that someone mentioned being able to do, that would make me happy. But if I could use
NQC with the built in IR ports even if it was only a couple of inches would make me
VERY happy.

For learning remotes, you can always hook up
something like Irman to the serial port, but that would be less useful for
interfacing to the RCX.

I've been reading all I can on the Agenda but so far all I can find out is that it
has a serial port and a Keyboard/app slot. I haven't seen if it has any other slots
like a compact flash port or something like the springboard type slots.

Dean
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(...) I actually own one of these devices - and I agree that it's *just* the very thing for Lego robotics. Some caveats: * Whilst it has a 'Commercial IR' port and an 'iRDA' port - the CIR is output-only. It's generally believed that the input iRDA (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Searching for alternatives
 
(...) I have not received my Agenda yet, but from the mailing list discussions it is not clear how easily the Agenda will be able to receive non-IrDA IR communications. There is an SIR port for input, but I don't know what constraints it has. For (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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