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Re: Rotational Sensor & Gearing Down
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:27:16 GMT
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Chris 'Xenon' Hanson <xenon@3dnature.+ihatespam+com>
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xenon@3^AntiSpam^dnature.com
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Rebel Transcanner wrote:
> "Bob Fay" <rfay@we.mediaone.net> wrote in message
> news:G7MKLo.2tB@lugnet.com...
> > Rotation sensors will lose counts randomly in spite of the firmware.
> I'll back that! It's totally hit-and-miss. I've done several tests on
> different gearings (some running the thing off a micromotor...) and no
> matter what, they *always* loose count. I'm really dissapointed with them,
> and I've hardly used them for this exact reason. :(
I think the PIC series of microcontrollers have some
sample code for reading quadrature-type rotational sensors
(a la mousewheels). Perhaps one could design a PIC-based
intermediate module that was dedicated to reading rotational
sensors reliably and reporting the values back to the RCX.
> Iain
Chris - Xenon
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| "Bob Fay" <rfay@we.mediaone.net> wrote in message news:G7MKLo.2tB@lugnet.com... (...) I'll back that! It's totally hit-and-miss. I've done several tests on different gearings (some running the thing off a micromotor...) and no matter what, they (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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