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Re: Palm Pilot & Scout
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lugnet.robotics.scout
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Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:45:31 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
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> Hi All,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> can anyone help me out?
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> Thanks
> Bernard
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 the Lugnet newsgroup postings using the keyword "Palm"
for more information. Go to the Lugnet website to do the search.
Robert Eddings
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| (...) Hi Robert, true it s a non standard IR protocol, but so do Palm. After some searching over the weekend, I came up with the following links. (search google for: palm lego mindstorms) 1. (URL) This guy wrote 2 applications to control the RCX (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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| | Re: Palm Pilot & Scout
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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