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Re: Extreme Creatures 9732 @ The Bay
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Sun, 6 Apr 2003 04:42:30 GMT
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message
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> I was over at the one at Yorkdale and found some items on sale, about • 25-33%
> off. There was a lot of LOM stuff being cleared out.
You missed something, I put my hand in a half-eaten bread product that was
stuck behind one of the sets. I almost fell over I was laughing so hard.
Yorkdale makes me angry when it's that busy. ARGH.
> Well, one of the things was to use it as a cheap rotation sensor. I think
> the plan was to gear it in such a way that the FOS element rotated once
> every say, 1/8th of a turn of another gear, and you had one of the fibre
> elements pointing into a light sensor. If you turned the other gear once,
> the FOS would rotate eight times, allowing you a crude sense of rotation.
It's actually even a bit simpler than that, if you just connect the port on
the top of the Fibre Optic unit to a sensor and configure it in RAW, you can
see the state changes either 8 or 16 times per revolution (can't remember),
but it's also 2-state so you have no sense of direction.
Iain
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| (...) You know, that was probably one of the worst kept Lego/toy sections I've ever seen. I am convinced the Bay is getting out of toys. (...) Wow. I never knew that! I think it's safe to say every piece has a use.* One of the things that amazed the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) I was over at the one at Yorkdale and found some items on sale, about 25-33% off. There was a lot of LOM stuff being cleared out. (...) Well, one of the things was to use it as a cheap rotation sensor. I think the plan was to gear it in such a (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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