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(...) Maybe John Barnes would be interested in doing something with this? One other question - do you have any idea how long can the wire can be with the AC generator you built? Regards ROSCO (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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very good application-idea Philippe, and nicely implemented ! Looking at your idea, brings me on another idea. Shouldn't it be possible to build another wire-follower, consisting of just 1 wire, fed by a DC source and a measured with a Hall-sensor? (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) When did I say that? Talking to a parallel port in C is easy in most OS's. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage : (URL) : (4 URLs) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Those sound interesting - I did a Google search and turned up several of them on web sites in Germany - nothing much in the USA - and no indication of prices. However, they claim to produce up to 14Kbaud data rates and they have a nice simple (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) My aging Agenda PDA does integer work at about the speed of a 100MHz Pentium. Floating point performance is terrifyingly slow though. Since the Agenda is a couple of years old now, I'd expect PDA's to be two or three times faster by now - so (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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