IRda and the stamp
www.personalrobotics.net Don did a article about it a while back.
-William
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> I would like to use my TV remote with the stamp BS2. DO I need an
> IRda device. Has anyone done this? Thanks
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-William
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 6:32 PM
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> I would like to use my TV remote with the stamp BS2. DO I need an
> IRda device. Has anyone done this? Thanks
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IRda device. Has anyone done this? Thanks
back on behalf of Parallax. I thought it was available on the Parallax
site -- but I don't see it with a casual glance. Actually, if you look at
http://www.stampsinclass.com/Robotics.asp they mention it, but I don't know
where it is online.
The idea is to use PULSIN very rapidly to read all the pulses in the IR
packet and then decode them. The Stamp isn't fast enough to read and decode
at the same time. The problem with this is that the PULSINs have to timeout
before you can realize no one is sending data. So you have to design your
interface to require constant IR commands. My bot ran if you pressed and
held "2", but if you wanted to make it where "2" starts and "5" stops that
is a problem. It will be jerky as it times out waiting for commands. Of
course if you use a PAK-VIII like the BOEBot in our Stamp Project of the
month does (http://www.al-williams.com/awce/som.htm) you might get around
this since the Stamp then doesn't constantly control the motors.
Regards,
Al Williams
AWC
*Floating point math for the Stamp, PIC, SX, or any microcontroller:
http://www.al-williams.com/awce/pak1.htm
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> I would like to use my TV remote with the stamp BS2. DO I need an
> IRda device. Has anyone done this? Thanks
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do this. The results are sometimes random, and it may not work with all
remotes. My hard drive crashed a while back and I lost the code. If you
can find a way to make it run better it would be perfectly feasible. I
wrote some code for a pic f84 in PBC and it works great. I can pass this on
to you if you like. The only hardware I needed in both cases was a 38khz IR
module.
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>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:32:10 -0000
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>I would like to use my TV remote with the stamp BS2. DO I need an
>IRda device. Has anyone done this? Thanks
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Yes, I have done it. All I used was the Sharp GPU52x(something like
that) IR Detector easily found at Radio Shack. It will detect just
about any infrared remote. If you want simple on/off processing this
will work good with your TV remote or any other infrared remote. If
you want to distinguish between the buttons you are going to have to
measure the pulses, use a decoder IC, or do something serially.
There are many infrared kits that will get you started in addition to
the site mentioned in the previous reply.
Have fun!
DJ
--- In basicstamps@egroups.com, rheine@m... wrote:
> I would like to use my TV remote with the stamp BS2. DO I need an
> IRda device. Has anyone done this? Thanks
I'm interested in the code, please email me the code at
Gary.Chung@d...
Thanks in advance
Regards
Gary
> I have done this with a sony remote, however the bs2 is a little too slow to
> do this. The results are sometimes random, and it may not work with all
> remotes. My hard drive crashed a while back and I lost the code. If you
> can find a way to make it run better it would be perfectly feasible. I
> wrote some code for a pic f84 in PBC and it works great. I can pass this on
> to you if you like. The only hardware I needed in both cases was a 38khz IR
> module.
>
>
> >From: rheine@m...
> >Reply-To: basicstamps@egroups.com
> >To: basicstamps@egroups.com
> >Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] IRda and the stamp
> >Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:32:10 -0000
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> >I would like to use my TV remote with the stamp BS2. DO I need an
> >IRda device. Has anyone done this? Thanks
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