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Re: Using a Sony Remote control to run my Mindstorms...
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Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:14:24 GMT
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As it turns out it is much easier than I thought...
All that I had to do was point the remotes at each other,
the Sony remote can 'learn' from other remotes.
I selected a free button and then I pointed my
Lego remote at the Sony and pressed the button
that I wanted to 'teach' and like magic it worked.
The neat thing that I can do now is write macros
on the remote that can augment the abilities of the
RCX. Now I can have three programs on the RCX
and another 3 that are run from the remote.
It works rather well.
Now if I could just get the remote to take out the trash!
Jason
"Mauro Vianna" <mauro_vianna@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:G4LALy.5xH@lugnet.com...
> Hi, Jason.
>
> Try learn from the IR tower itself. If that works, you make it learn what
> ever you want. All you need is to use RcxCC or similar software.
>
> Reading from the RCX IR emitter may be a possibily also, but you will • learn
> only messages this way.
>
> Please give us some feedback. I believe other people will be interested in
> this feature also!
>
> cheers,
> Mauro
>
> Jason Reljac <jason@reljac.com> wrote in message
> news:G08J43.A48@lugnet.com...
> >
> > "Mike Burger" <mike@hawaii.edu> wrote in message
> > news:G0835L.Ax2@lugnet.com...
> > > In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Jason Reljac writes:
> > >
> > > > I have a Sony RM-AV2000 remote control.
> > > > Is there anyway to use it to control my Lego Mindstorms kit?
> > >
> > > A related thought, Radio Shack among others sells remotes that can
> > > learn by watching other remotes blink commands and storing them
> > > into the remote. One might be able to capture signals from the
> > > Lego remote, and perhaps even capture signals from the tower when
> > > it is hooked up to some "run the robot" software like Mars Explorer.
> > > One might even capture signals from Vision Command to make fake
> > > camera detected something signals, whatever that might be good for
> > > other than testing. But you could possibly make a useful remote that
> > > had an extended instruction set, able to send more than just messages
> > > 1-3 like the Lego Remote for instance, like message 21 etc.
> >
> > Mike,
> >
> > Thanks for the thought...I went and taught my Sony Remote what my • Mindstorms
> > remote could do and that worked great. I guess now I have to try to • figure
> > out
> > else I can do with it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
> >
> >
>
>
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