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Re: Palm Pilot & Scout
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lugnet.robotics.scout
Date: 
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

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

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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(...) Or just sign up to the lugnet.robotics.palm newsgroup. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.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 (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.scout)

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