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Controlling a RoboSapien with IR Buddy?

Tim WhiteTim White Posts: 2
edited 2005-08-22 18:43 in Robotics
Hello -

I am working on a project that needs to control a RoboSapien, and I'm looking a possibly using Parallax's IR Buddy to send the RoboSapien it's command messages.

According to the RoboSapien info:

"The IR Carrier is 39.2kHz. Data is modulated using a space coded signal with 8 data bits (data clock is 1200Hz, but actual data rate varies depending on the data)."

An example command: "$80 - turn right (on left side of remote)"

If anyone can let me know if the IR Buddy will be capable of sending the right codes to the RoboSapien, that would be wonderful. I'd hate to order one and find out that it wouldn't work.

Thanks!

Tim White

Comments

  • allanlane5allanlane5 Posts: 3,815
    edited 2005-08-22 16:59
    Nope, the IR-Buddy sends and recives Phillips RC-5 codes ONLY. The Robosapien IR stream looks nothing like RC-5.
    Please don't buy an IR-Buddy to talk to the Robosapien, it is not going to work.
  • Tim WhiteTim White Posts: 2
    edited 2005-08-22 18:43
    Ok, thanks for the info!
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