[cpia] Barbie Cam

[Jeff Laing]

At the risk of being laughed at, has anyone managed to get anywhere with the
Barbie Cam?  I have read through the scicomms.doc and understand whats in
it.  However, there are a number of holes (big enough to push a truck
through).

Specifically, does anyone know what baudrate, etc to talk to the camera?
And is there a state diagram available?  ie, up till now, when I talk to it
at 19200, 8N1, it seems to echo everything I send it exactly as-is.  I'm
assuming its in some sort of test mode, but even the SB_EXIT_SELFTEST
messages seems to get echoed back.

Failing that, does anyone know of any Windows 95 tools I can use to sniff
whats going down the comms port while the camera is active?  I'm despairing
of having to write a lot of software and needing to get multiple PC's
together...

Any help is appreciated,

Jeff Laing <jeffl@spatialinfo.com>
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