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| (...) If you go to the website of the show, they say that *everything* in the junkyard is seeded. Everything that's there was put there by the show's producers. Not that it really makes the show less enjoyable. Although for some strange reason a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Yeah, DGPS would probably be accurate enough, assuming you could get around the no-lock problem. (...) I believe the on-board GPS receiver would still need to fix on the Navstar constellation, regardless of whether or not it was a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| |  | | New Outdoor Robot Photos
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| I took some new photos of a couple of my robots, and they came out pretty good so I thought I'd share them. The photos were taken outdoors in indirect sunlight, with a Canon Powershot S20 3.34MP mounted on a Velbon tripod. Post-processing consisted (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.publish.photography)
| |  | | Re: Solar Cell Output in Direct Sunlight
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| I have a Halogen uplight lighting a room and my solar cell will power a motor, with no load up to a distance of around '6 (3' work height) from the light pole. This will fluctuate according to the reflectance's of the ceiling, walls, etc. Rose (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dacta)
| |  | | Re: robotica on TLC
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| Okay, gotta play the devils advocate and take this a step further. ;) Robot (noun). A robot has to have an onboard computer (processor) that is takes input from sensors and decides what to do with its outputs (actuators). It must be able to sense (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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