A couple of friends of mine and myself plan on building a wireless AIM type client for the 83/84. My friends are going to be constructing the hardware and I am the programmer asigned to the task. I think it would be cool to be able to wirelessly communicate on calculators. I have finished about half of the program that will manipulate this link. According to my friends the hardware will work just like if a cord was plugged in the I/O port. So far I have finished the input routine, designed an extra small custom font for the past text displays, and created the past displays. In essance all that has to be done on my part is the transfering with the link. Does anyone have any experience using the link. I have found some documentation on it, but it is vague and I am a little confused. Hopefully I can figure it out soon! I will post updates to our progress just to let you guys know

I have. I'd like to warn you though that full-duplex two-data-line wireless communication (as required by the TI linkport) is very difficult; if somehow you DO get it succeed at a deceng bandwidth and distance, I would like to ask to license the design for the official TICI 2.0 CALCnet2 Wireless Adapter.

Ya that's what I said, well not exactly, but I didn't question there ability to make it. I hope they can do it, or else this aim program I made will just work on a calc to calc link which is pointless

Edit: What do you think of Michael Vincents Tachyon Link routine? Will it get the job done? Do you have a better linking routine?

It's ok.

I am having a few problems. Basically when I run it and send a message the recieving calc won't return to type mode after it has recieved a message. And it won't display the past message until I send another one. Then it never returns to type mode. Here is an excerpt of some code; I would appreciate any help I can get:


Code:


I am willing to include any other code necessary to find this problem. Thanks in advance for any help

I myself am working with ulrasonic range finders as a means for wireless communications...however, I doubt your friends will be able to do this. Actually, you need to be there with them as they build the device, so you know how you're going to interface with the device. As for range, I don't think you'll be able to go from classroom to classroom (actually, it'll only work in a location without large barriers)

@Kerm: You'd like to license it? Getting lazy, are we?

Not so much lazy as simply not having the time to make it myself.

...I think you're saying it to cover up your laziness But that's just my opinion...

Anyways, my Dad found all of his old electronics notes whe n he was in the Marine Corps...it's just mind boggling the amount of stuff he has! He literally has five 4" binders full of hand-written notes! And the math needed to complete some of his examples...it'll really feel like you have a lot of catching up to do! There was a lot of physics in his binders, though.

OMG...that's impressive!

That would be cool.

There was two kids at school that had it figured out, because the school had this transmitter line in each class, and they knew how to tap into that for wireless com across the school, but the school board banned it...

Always finding ways around, aren't we?

Today, I saw someone link into the wireles network at our school with their PSP...

Eh, old news.

/me envies schools with a wireless network.

Hehe, me too, they don't want one at my school for "security reasons"

Yea they don't want one at my school for money purposes, yet they are willing to fork over $54 Million for the new addition they are adding on! Of which I will see none of the beniefts because I graduate before they finish And the same exact thing happened at my junior high school

? Using a landline for wireless comms? Or to use it as a giant antenna?

How's it going so far?

OMG, now THAT would be awesome...

The WAP is in the library in plain sight. He's currently trying to find a program that can decode a WEP.

$54M for an addition?! Our school is paying that much for a whole school!

my school has WiFi, and supposidly, they are working on a way for all kids with laptops to get on the network and internet. They have to block content though, so, that is what is taking them