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(...) It would be. But it's really tough -- not only can they not see where the light sensor is, they totally have no idea where the other robot is. It's like they're blindfolded and deaf. (26 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yep, I've checked out about every page I've seen on this. I just haven't had the time to do it yet. :| As soon as our competition is over and classes settle down (maybe in 3 years :()) I will get a chance to experiment with it. When will you (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Danny, The Polaroid 6500 is very common, and if you have the expansion board on your HB you have a built in connection. There are drivers on the MIT HandyBoard site. The units are available from Acroname and they also have a good fact sheet. (2 (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Hmm, I don't think that's quite true. You can equip the robots with rotation sensors, and have them programmed such that they will send the values of their respective rotation sensors every so often. They can either send them to one another (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Through the PS/2 adapter it doesn't require any special driver. The native USB plug requires a driver in Windows 98. Cheers, Jim Andy Gombos <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3816307E.540F5E...nfi.net... (...) to the (...) it cannot (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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You can also take the "lens" out of the front of a good laser pointer and it does the same thing. KL (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi all, I'm working on a dead reckoning 'bot. I'm not really interested in what the wheels are doing unless they're stalled. Anyone know any good tricks for monitoring the motor current, or should I go with shaft encoders anyway? Thanks! Paul (26 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Why spend money on a laser, that should have a focused beam, when all you're going to do basically, is turn it into a flashlight? (26 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) thanks matthew and arjen! that's exactly what i am going to do. what i did not realize at first is that 2400 baud actually *is* way too slow, as 2400 bits/s is only 240 bytes per second. a message has a length of around 10 bytes (depending on (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I think major areas of education will [have to] end up going through the same push->pull revolution that traditional media have begun to go through in recent years. Pushing television shows, commercials, movies -- and especially news -- in (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.admin.general)
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