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Subject: 
Ir transmission
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Date: 
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:36:21 GMT
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Hi,
is there any way to send IR messages using pbForth.  This is in order to use
the IR proximity detector commonly used with nqc programs.
Also I think that with alternative firmware such as pbForth and nqc, it
should be possible to do it without using the light sensor, just the IR com
link.
Thank you for your thoughts on the subject



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  RE: Ir transmission
 
(...) YES!!! The standard FORTH word U. prints an insigned integer, while EMIT sends out an arbitrary byte. So, for a simple IR proximity detector, you would write something like: HEX 0 SENSOR_ACTIVE (labelled sensor #1) 3 1 SENSOR_TYPE (light (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
  Re: Ir transmission
 
(...) My next project is to port the IR proximity dectector originally posted by Mark R. David (markdavid@mediaone.net) in sort-of-Spirit code which I reposted in NQC whan I had got it working. It is the best performing detector I have found so far. (25 years ago, 4-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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