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Re: IR and the Casio Fiva tablet pc , and voice recogination .. a fully mobile robot..
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Date: 
Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:58:09 GMT
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lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Steve Baker) writes:

The power from a light source decreases with the square of the range.  In
a small room with walls that reflect IR well, your signal shouldn't have to
travel much more than twice the size of the room - worst case.  My 'lego'
room is 23 feet square and has non-shiney walls in dark green paint

For infra_red_ that may be about the same thing as black.

A good idea in many places is to point the IR upwards,
assuming that (a) there is a ceiling and (b) it is not dark green.

Jürgen

--
Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/



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  Re: IR and the Casio Fiva tablet pc , and voice recogination .. a fully mobile robot..
 
(...) I don't have anything *like* this much luck. I find I can lose the signal really easily...I think it depends a LOT on the size of the room and the colour and type of the paint on the walls. The power from a light source decreases with the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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