On February 18, 2005 4:56 pm, Kin C Wong wrote: > That is good information as well. I think I am going to try it out and see > how it works out. > > I did some more searching and got some bad news. If you create a > production model, the cost of being USB registered is rather > prohibitive. It would still be cheaper to use something like an sbc. Well > them's the breaks.
Yep, that sucks, probably better off buying something of the shelf. I wonder if one of those USB to IrDA dongles could be used for your application (or even the IR port on the laptop if it exists). Although these devices are intended for IrDA data transfers and speak an actual protocol, I suspect all the "smarts" is really in the software driver. You might be able to co-opt one of the USB IrDA drivers (from Linux anyway) for one of these devices and use it for dumb IR communication instead. I've never tried this so who knows if it would work, but those dongles used to be really cheap so no big loss either way. Just some food for thought. ~Scott _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
