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Re: Palm Pilot & Scout
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lugnet.robotics.scout
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Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:39:40 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.scout, Greg Ericksen writes:
> I heard that it was possible to control the Scout with a palm pilot. How is
> this done?
> Thank You,
> Greg Ericksen
Hi All,
well I have a palm Vx, which of course has an internal IR port.
I recently bought a Scouot kit, and thought a similar thing.
When I programmed the Scout to reverse when detecting light, and put my palm in
front of it, and beamed something, the scout did actually reverse away.
Now, I don't knowif this was just because the light sensor picked up the IR
"light" or if the IR port thought it was some code being transmitted.
can anyone help me out?
Thanks
Bernard
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| (...) Greg and Bernard The Scout and the RCX use a non standard IR communication protocol so the Palm cannot communicate directly. Some neat things can be done though. There has been a few postings on this subject so I suggest you do a search of (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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