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Re: Extending IR communications
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Fri, 5 Aug 2005 06:45:08 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Christopher Dickinson wrote:
> Greetings helpful companions. Now that I've buttered you up, let's move on...
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> I've built a robotic arm using my RCX 1.0 brick. I'm controlling it via my
> computer with LeJOS (not important, I think). What my issue arises is if my arm
> rotates, the IR face on the block is no longer facing the IR tower. My first
> thought was to attach the IR tower to the back of the RCX, but I will run into a
> similar issue soon - if my arm rotates, the cord for the IR tower will wrap
> around the arm's base.
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> Have any of you out there come up with a solution to make the RCX system
> completely wireless, or at least where my robotic arm could run without wires
> interfering or IR face dissapearing? Some sort of wireless bridge between the
> tower and the computer, perhaps?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> -Christopher
Have you tried a mirror? Infrared light IS light !
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| Orient both RCXs so that they are pointing towards the ceiling. Set the RCX transmit power level to high (default is probably low power); there's probably some Lejos function to do this -- all it requires is setting one bit in an I/O register to 1. (...) (19 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| Greetings helpful companions. Now that I've buttered you up, let's move on... I've built a robotic arm using my RCX 1.0 brick. I'm controlling it via my computer with LeJOS (not important, I think). What my issue arises is if my arm rotates, the IR (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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