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RE: how can I get "manual" input into my RCX?
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Date: 
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:53:34 GMT
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Marco Correia's utterance expressed in
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or you can use a rotation/angle sensor as a dial (to choose the
action) and a touch sensor as the OK or ENTER "button".  ...or you
mimic the old telephone dials, where you reach the number/action you
want and the ENTER is done by returning the dial to 0(zero)/no action.

What a great idea!  why haven't I tried that yet??  Fun
things to do with a rotation sensor  :)  I mainly use it
for distance measuring and crane-boom-control.

Shame on you!  Now I'm gonna go to bed too late tonight!

Leg godt!
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  Re: how can I get "manual" input into my RCX?
 
(...) You don't even need a rotation sensor. You could turn a dial, and for each position a touch sensor is pushed. Ie, for a typical clock style, you gear things up so that for one rotation of the dial the touch sensor is pushed 12 times. A ratchet (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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  RE: how can I get "manual" input into my RCX?
 
With 3 touch sensors = 3 "bits" = 1+7 possible states/combinations 000 = none pressed 001 = 1 pressed 010 = 2 pressed 011 = 1+2 pressed 100 = 3 pressed 101 = 1+3 pressed 110 = 2+3 pressed 111 = 1+2+3 pressed or you can use a rotation/angle sensor as (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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