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Subject: 
RE: Autonomous Robot
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 8 Aug 2000 23:13:58 GMT
Original-From: 
Jim Choate <ravage@einstein/spamcake/.ssz.com>
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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Duncan Colvin wrote:

How easy would it be to build a satellite dish style set up, where the beam
is reflected to a sensor in the middle of the dish? Has anyone done this
already? Are there prebuilt dishes that could be used? Is there an
affordable solution?

Try a flashlight reflector. Rat Shack used to sell a 'cigarette lighter'
that was a hyperbolic dish to light from the suns rays.

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How easy would it be to build a satellite dish style set up, where the beam is reflected to a sensor in the middle of the dish? Has anyone done this already? Are there prebuilt dishes that could be used? Is there an affordable solution? DBC <Two (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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