Hi James,


Welcome to www.sirpic.com :>)

I=B4m using it for diagnose my circuits for about 3 years now.
Works perfect.

Just pay attetion that some palms didn=B4t accept raw IRDA,
just IRCOMM. Another detail is that the clock must be
very precise. I have some trouble with PICs 12F675 and 16F676
with internal oscillators, even with 1200bauds.

I use simple IR leds (remote control ones) and only software.

Zire Z22, the cheapest now, is the best I have used for this.


Best regards,

Rubens




At 23:15 24/1/2008, you wrote:
>That is a REALLY interesting idea...
>
>Bob has talked in the past about having an "unused" pin that sends out
>status info all the time in some special format...
>
>If you send out status data in a serial stream fast enough and continuousl=
y,
>it should look more or less consistent when used to light the power on LED
>on the widget you are making.
>
>For no extra cost, you get a visible status data stream.
>
>Of course, you can't read it with the naked eye... Other than to note that
>the light goes out or comes on brighter when the uC stops running.
>
>Then the question is what can you use to read it? What if the light pattern
>was the same as what a barcode reader would see if it was scanned over an
>area? So assuming your customer has a barcode reader connected to his or h=
er
>keyboard (as is the case at a lot of POS terminals) then you just tell them
>to go to a web page that you have set up, and then point the barcode wand
>right over the power LED on your widget. Some JavaScript on the page parses
>the data stream, breaks it off in chunks and sends them to you via AJAX.
>
>Or perhaps IRdA is the better protocol?
>
>What do PDA's talk in when you "beam" contacts between units?
>
>At worst, you send them a "visible light to RS232 adapter" which everyone
>has laying around right?
>
>On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:05:24PM -0700, Dwayne Reid wrote:
>The other neat trick I'm doing is that one of the LEDs is actually
>spitting out a serial bit stream while it is lit.
>
><snip>
>
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