James!

I have nothing with SirPIC !!!!!!
I just indicate it to the list !!!!

Rubens


At 17:05 25/1/2008, you wrote:
>http://www.sirpic.com has code to allow a Palm to receive (and send given
>the required hardware) signals with a PIC via IR or hardwire interface.
>
>Most excellent! It's good to know other people have had the same idea. For
>anyone who looks at this, the actual PIC code is in
>http://www.sirpic.com/downloads/SirPicProgrammersGuide_v1_1.pdf and Rubens
>is selling (at a very reasonable price) a Palm app that displays the
>incoming data.
>
>I do have a few questions:
>
>I've never worked with an IR transmitter module:
>
>Do they show a visible light of any sort? This would allow it to serve dual
>purpose as the status or power on light.
>
>Do they cost significantly more than a standard LED? I assume so, but maybe
>I'm wrong.
>
>Can a standard LED have any hope of actually communicating with a Palm?
>
>If I designed a product with your PIC code built in and an IR transmitter,
>what royalty issues do I face and can I license the Palm code to my
>customers?
>
>And finally, I'm sort of waiting for someone with a lot of barcode
>experience *cough, Dave* to comment on the original idea of using the LED =
to
>put out pulses of light that a barcode wand might interpret in the same way
>it picks up changes in the reflected light level from an actual bar code. =
IF
>that would work, it seems to me that it would be VERY handy in some
>environments.
>
>--
>James.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
>rlistas
>Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:18
>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>Subject: Re: [EE] wierd idea: power LED blinks status barcode
>
>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
>continuously,
> >it should look more or less consistent when used to light the power on L=
ED
> >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 th=
at
> >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 patt=
ern
> >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
>her
> >keyboard (as is the case at a lot of POS terminals) then you just tell t=
hem
> >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 par=
ses
> >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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