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Subject: 
Use PC's IR port instead of IR tower?
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Date: 
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 01:37:48 GMT
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Hello,

Is it possible to use a PC's IR port, instead of the IR tower, to
communicate with an RCX?

(I have a Dell Inspiron 3500).

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  Re: Use PC's IR port instead of IR tower?
 
The basic difference between PCs/PalmPilots/WinCE IR ports and the RCX is a different physical transmission/modulation protocol. In the PC etc case the commonly used format is described by the IrDa standard (www.irda.org) where seperate IR pulses (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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