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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Nils Oberg wrote:
> > 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 be difficult to send information from the robot to the PC. On the
> > other hand, you can send information (read: commands) from the PC to the
> > robot pretty reliably, given that the robot doesn't get too far away.
>
> I see. So I can use regular laptop/PC IR to comm with the robot instead of
> going through the IR tower?
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 robot, as best as anyone can figure.
-Luis
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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