Was obtaining the serial (which I presume is the "old" IR tower) difficult? Where did you find it. I suppose you could buy the old set on eBay or off the shelf of a store.
Here's another question: Do you suppose one could configure the built in IR port on a laptop to talk to the RCX? It would be neat if I could type little bits of code and beam them over that way! Dave On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > ok, i obtained the serial IR tower. > > i plugged the tower into my server, satan (the 2nd serial port). After > putting batteries into the RCX and downloading the Mindstorm 1.5 > firmware from katherine's website, i ran: > > nqc -S/dev/ttyS1 -firmware firm0309.lgo > > in the console, it printed: > > .draining > .draining > .draining > .draining > .draining > .draining > > a whole bunch of times. "00000" appeared on the RCX and it began to > increase. presumably, "draining" means the process of writing data from > an output buffer to the tower and the numbers on the RCX are almost > certainly the number of bytes read by the RCX. > > finally, the following appeared on the console: > > Current Version: 00030001/00030009 > > and the RCX sang a pleasant tune. i take this to be a good sign. > > pete > > ps- there is now a linux usb tower kernel driver. i'll try it out > tonight. > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
