Nasta wrote: >> He he, next step is to get one of those remote controller watches to >> remote control the QL, or to get software ont he QL to drive an >> infrared LED or something to work with such a learning or programmable >> remote control. Now if Simon Goodwin and Al Boehm can get a MIDI synth >> to work via a QL network port it shouldn't be too hard to interface an >> infrared LED to a network port either so we can multitask a little >> button program on the QL to cange channels, mute the volume when the >> phone rings, videoplus the TV and video, etc etc. Any offers anyone? > >Ah, what an interesting idea! It should actualy be quite trivial to add an >IR LED to the network port. >Here is another idea, and I'll just put it in the public domain here since >I don't have the time to develop it: With some rather simple mods to the >internal network circuitry in a QL it would be possible to make the network >completely IR based. I wonder why it wasn't originally done that way... >Basically, the 8302 ULA has two pins, net in and net out. They only get >combined into one single shared wire externally, using a couple of >resistors and a transistor (there is also an overvoltage protector on the >Aurora). The software driving the port is responsible for the input being >ignored while the output is transmitting. All it would take would be to >have a buffer driving several IR LEDs (pointing in different directions so >you don't need to aim the communicating QLs accurately) from the net out >pin, and an IR detector driving the net in pin. A bit more might be needed >if one would want to avoid upsetting any other IR devices around, but not >much... All of these components are easy to find and cheap.
I'll look forward to it when someone builds it! -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
