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Re: Does anyone have an extra usb IR tower for sale?
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Date: 
Sun, 23 Sep 2001 23:43:44 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Rob Hendrix writes:
I'm tired of waiting on TLG to make it available.  Hell, I haven't even
received the 2.0 upgrade I ordered in the first part of August yet!!!
Who knows when They will ever make it available...

You can order one from Pitsco.  See recent posts for details.

http://news.lugnet.com/robotics/rcx/nqc/?n=1226

Unfortunately, the tower doesn't come with drivers.  You need to get the RIS
2.0 software upgrade or the ROBOLAB 2.5 software in order for the tower to
function.  We need to develop a cross-platform open source set of drivers
for it.  Is anyone working on this?

John Hansen



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  Re: Does anyone have an extra usb IR tower for sale?
 
(...) Do you know if there is anywhere similar in the UK? I've been trying to get my hands on some extra rotation sensors, but finding a supplier in the UK is practically impossible. Does anyone know if Pitsco will ship to the UK? (23 years ago, 24-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
  Re: Does anyone have an extra usb IR tower for sale?
 
I'm working on a kernel mode driver for Linux for the IR Tower. Overall from everything I've figured out, this is just a USB Serial device; porting code in win32 from COM1 (Serial interface from old serial one) -> LEGOTOWER1 (The USB Tower device (...) (23 years ago, 24-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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  Does anyone have an extra usb IR tower for sale?
 
I'm tired of waiting on TLG to make it available. Hell, I haven't even received the 2.0 upgrade I ordered in the first part of August yet!!! Who knows when They will ever make it available... -Rob (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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