[sdiy] Has anybody done a diy IR MIDI link ?

[Tim Ressel]

Yo,

I just perused the Agilent website. They seem to think
you need an interface chip to go between the UART and
the IRDA transceiver to do something called "3/16
modulation". I suspect you can fake it for this
application.

--TR

--- Doug Forbes <av599 at lafn.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Neil, thanks for the reply,
> What I want to do is build an interface for a PDA
> that will convert the
> "beaming" serial stream to MIDI. I figured to use an
> IrDA pair. Data errors
> ? What data errors.
> Seriously I guess just keep everything close enough
> to minimize the errors.
> Doug Forbes
> Professor Music Technology / Computer Science
> College of the Canyons
> Valencia, Ca.
> 
> >
> > What do you plan to do about data errors??  MIDI
> doesn't have much in the
> > way of a "protocol" :-)
> >
> > Neil
> >
> > --
> > Neil Johnson :: Computer Laboratory :: University
> of Cambridge ::
> > http://www.njohnson.co.uk         
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~nej22
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> >
> >
> 


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