Re: A86: Radio Link
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Re: A86: Radio Link
Wow, finally someone has the same ideas as me. I think I radio link would be
cool and better than an IR link in a couple of ways. Since the IR link has a
short range and works only by LOS (afaik), a radio link that has a big range
would be extremely cool.. While I know that a radio link with a range of several
miles would be a bit expensive and maybe a bit hard to accomplish, we do not
need this kind of range yet. While a range of 35 miles would be extremely cool,
for now, I think whoever designs and tries to build an radio link should keep
the range roughly enough so the link works fine on a 20 story building. If this
is a bit unrealistic, maybe have the range be large enough so it would work fine
from one end of a college campus to the other. If that is still unrealistic,
then make it work on the size of a high school campus. As a reference,
Motorola's' two way radios have a two mile range (aprox.), so whoever designs
the radio shouldn't try to make it better than that. I know that someone was
working on an RF link a while back, and I posted the url of his project in this
list some months back, so if anyone who has been in this list and still has all
the postings from the list, please try to find the url that I sent. I do not
have the url anymore since I had to reformat my HD not to long ago and I had no
backup copies of anything. In close, if anyone with much electronics experience
is willing to step up and try to do this, I am very sure many would be thankful
to you. This certainly isn't a simple project, but I am sure it can be done.
Maybe someone in this list is in the TI-Hardware list and can ask them if they
know anything about a radio link or a project for one.
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Justin Karneges wrote:
> >While that would be really great, I don't see why it is a reason not
> >to do a TI-UX as well. While the full unix OS is surly too much for
> >the calculator to handle, there are certainly peices that we should be
> >able to implement quite nicely on the calc, and it should be a good
> >challenge to do so.
>
> Very true. Any addition to the calculator is always a good thing. Because
> of the possible limitations of the Radio Link, the TI-UX should be written
> as well. I guess I should have said, "If people are willing to write unix
> for a calculator, can someone at least make a radio link?" because I really
> want one!
>
> So here's a new thread called Radio Link. I hope there is at least someone
> out there with some electronics knowledge. I'm currently taking my first
> electronics course right now, but so far I don't know a whole lot and
> probably won't be able to make anything cool like a Radio Link for awhile.
>
> Anyways, the Radio Link needs to be built. Wireless transmission brings the
> calculator to a very powerful level. The modem/cellphone combo is very
> costly for a student (or for anyone for that matter. i mean, we could use
> the same radio link on a laptop if we wanted) and the IR link, while very
> cool indeed, can't get around a wall. The IR link suits the purposes of
> gamers who want an easier way to play, but will just not do when it comes to
> internet access or long distance wireless communication.
>
> The Radio Link would probably the most useful device that has ever been
> built for a calculator and would change the way we use are calculators more
> than anything else. We can discuss protocols later (although straight
> telnet right now can already be done), but for now we first need the Radio
> Link.
>
> Let's here some ideas.
>
> -Justin Karneges [Infiniti]
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