31 Aug
2003
31 Aug
'03
10:58 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great J.C. Wren once stated:
They were kind of slick engineering in some respects. Wel built, very low
cost, and as I recall, they had a pretty good scan rate of success. The mods
in the 'net show how to read the scanned codes out (I think you had to XOR
everything with the unit ID, and delete some headers and trailers), and how
to defeat the ID part in the unit. But they're still pretty goofy looking.
I got one of the units from RatShack (picked up an AT-PS/2 keyboard
converter at the same time) and wrote a C program to decode the data (which
I still have). If anyone is interested, I can give out copies (it's not
very long).
I had about 50 that I had acquired by asking for
several ("me and my friends
need one") everytime I went to Tech America or Radio Shack. I eventually did
nothing with them, and gave them all to a friend of mine.
I still have mine somewhere (I think it's now in storage) and never did
anything with it either.
-spc (Even have come incomprehensible Perl code to read them ... )