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Re: Shutting off illumination LED on Light Sensor for LIDAR
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Date: 
Thu, 29 Mar 2001 20:33:04 GMT
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lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Chris 'Xenon' Hanson) writes:

   Someone else mentioned that LegOS is able to read the light
sensor 'passively' without illuminating the LED. Any LegOS
folks here know what they do differently?

That's not a legOS feature.  You just set the input port to passive mode,
and read it in RAW mode.  There is an example in NQC at
http://www.mop.no/~simen/legoproxi.htm (I forgot to add the address in my
previous post :-).

   I keep seeing references to Gasperi's web page as having a
schematic of the lego Light Sensor, which would be helpful,
but I haven't found it on his site yet (too much great stuff
to dig through). If anyone has a direct URL to the sensor
schematic, I'd appreciate it.

You can find light sensor schematics on Michael Gasperi's page:
http://www.plazaearth.com/usr/gasperi/light.htm

bye
Bernardo



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  Re: Shutting off illumination LED on Light Sensor for LIDAR
 
(...) Thanks. I had seen this technique (and noticed this effect myself) but had heard rumor that this impaired the sensitivity of the detector. I'm going to try some rigorous tests and see if I can verify this. (...) We almost needa Yahoo-style (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Shutting off illumination LED on Light Sensor for LIDAR
 
(...) Thanks for all the tips, everybody. I set out last night to open up my light sensor and add a jumper to allow me to take the LED out of the circuit. I was unsuccessful in getting the casing open, even after cutting the underside latching tabs (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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