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| (...) No- I should have been more clear: PC->tower->robot automatically turns on the tower and is therefore pretty robust (whereas the robot has no way to turn on the tower once it has gone off.) There is no way to use laptop IR to talk to the (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Glad to hear it. Unfortunately, I'm also a student, the sysadmin, a programmer, and just general (computer) handyman, so I don't get to play with the robots all the time. (...) I see. So I can use regular laptop/PC IR to comm with the robot (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Once upon a time, I was paid briefly to do it to. Certainly the best summer job I will ever have. (...) FYI, The main limitation with the IR, assuming that your room is reasonably IR reflective, is that the tower turns itself off and so it can (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Right. (...) Yes. User moves mouse -> applet sends signal to server -> server sends signal to robot. (...) Great! This is just what I wanted. (...) I'll do that. (...) I was also looking for this. Thanks :) Thanks much for your help, Nils (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) It is really fun ... some of the time ;) (...) Yeah, I kind of thought that IR may not be so good, but I'm sure that I can find some ways around that. (...) That's an idea, although the data acquisition system primarily measures stress, (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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