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| Greetings, I recently acquired a Vector 2x Compass from Jameco, a mail-order electronics supplier, for US$ 49.9x ((URL) A.A. de Oliveira assfalk@eece.unm.edu ---...--- Research Asst. et PhD student UNM EECE ACE Center (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | | Re: Trinty Firefighting
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| (...) I used IR phototransistors. I picked them up at a local electronics surplus. They may have been mediocre in sensitivity as they could only respond to flame a couple of feet away. Putting a magnifying lens in front made a drastic difference, (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | | my fire-fighting robot
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| if anyone is interested, the robot entered by my team (steve ocko, brian silverman, and myself) is pictured at (URL) did the lego design, we all came up with the overall strategy, and i did the programming this year. it's really a two-year design; (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | | how to see the flame
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| some people use fancy sensor devices, but i have found that a simple CdS photocell or a phototransistor, with some kind of shielding tube to block ambient light, works quite well for seeing the candle flame. check out the pix -- lots of robots have (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | | Re: PCB for Handy Board
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| I think Douglas Electronics sells it. ---...--- ericson mar Master of Engineering Candidate Project: Mobile Robotics mar@cooper.edu (212)353-4356 Department of Mechanical Engineering The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ---...--- (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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