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Forgive my ignorance with respect to robotics and the like but what would you do with a laser? Is it used for guiding the robot or can the RCX detect when the beam is broken? I don't assume it is used to zap dirty dishes from the dinner table. <g> (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Yeah. In can't think of anything that a laser could be used for. Unless you had reflective walls and could use it as a range finder. Sort of like an ultrasonic range finder, only with light. I wonder if the timing could be done fast enough. Andy (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I think a laser would be very useful for vaporizing pesky obstacles, I'd like mine to be a CO2 @ 50 Watts please....Blue bricks would be just fine :>)) Seriously, a laser might be an interesting source of light for a homing beacon. I don't know if I (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Andy Gombos <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:37FE04DD.CA5505...nfi.net... (...) Maybe you could use it to blind people or pets. (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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i assume that i will be able to make a small lego robot that hunts for annoying dogs in the neiborhood and vaproizes them. i demand no less. b ---...--- (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) My initial thought was "Why?", but of course the next couple of posts displayed the creative energy of this group and contained several good answers to my question. For range finding using the laser wouldn't monitoring the intensity of the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Wasn't this what the SUN Jini demo did? Joel Shafer joel@connect.net (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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The New England Lego Users' Group (NELUG) will be hosting an open meeting on Saturday, October 23rd at 7:00 PM, during the upcoming MindFest event. The MindFest organizers at the MIT Media Lab have graciously offered us a large room for the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Pulsing the laser would be implemented with the "motor speed control". (...) How about just using it with mirror(s) and the light sensor as a tripwire? (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) difficult (...) of a (...) Snip You put a single field lens in front on the laser to provide a conical beam, but this is usually already done by the manufacturer because a laser diode is basically a point source and needs to be collimated to (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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