IR Beacon source code + data transfer

Robotics and electronics discussion Electronics
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Hey there!

I have two questions regarding the IR Beacon:

  1. Using the IR transmitters/receivers on the board, is it theoretically possible to send some data between the beacons as part of their transmission?

  2. Are you able to release the source code? I know this has been asked before but since this is a pretty mature product I thought maybe this is a good time to ask this again. It would help a lot since I wish to change the code to include some basic data transfer between the beacons.

Thank you,
Nir

2

Hello, Nir.

We do not disclose the firmware for the IR beacons and it does not support using the IR transmitters/receivers to transfer data.

Brandon

3

Hey Brandon,

Thank you. Sorry for not being more clear - assuming I will want to write code to pass some data from one board to another - will the current hardware support it?

Nir.

4

Our firmware does not allow for interacting with the transmitters and receivers like that. It just drives the 4 digital outputs to indicate which detector is receiving the strongest signal. You would need to write your own firmware to do something like that.

Brandon