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Article #1528Re: Infrared Remote Controls
From: Fred W. Culpepper
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:50
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:50
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John, Thanks for your article. I have wanted to try to make some use of the Radio Shack tin box for some time, but hadn't spent the time to look for signals generated by the remote control "boxes" which are available. My application is to use the old Apple II+ and its game port with three TTL compatible inputs as the processor for signals from the infrared detector. This sounds ideal for my purposes. The same game port has four TTL compatible outputs which with proper circuitry can be used to drive up to three stepper motors simultaneously. This can then give me 3-axis control over any robotic gimmick that I care to construct. A simple Basic program can convert the information from the detector into the desired stepper motion. That was a beautiful piece of deduction that you performed in arriving at the information you have posted. Thank you for sharing your information with others. Fred W. Culpepper, Eminent Professor OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY (Retired) fculpepp@norfolk.vak12ed.edu ---
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Newsgroups: comp.robotics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!caen!uvaarpa!vdoe386!norfolk!fculpepp From: fculpepp@norfolk.vak12ed.edu (Fred W. Culpepper) Subject: Re: Infrared Remote Controls Message-ID: <1992Dec19.045006.25731@norfolk.vak12ed.edu> Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Norfolk) References: <j-n2hap@rpi.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 04:50:06 GMT Lines: 26