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    RE: All-around-the-robot bump detection —Jeremy Morton (Excell Data Corporation) (Exchange)
   The tubing is such a small diameter that I think it would take a large surface of contact for enough air to be displaced to move a pneumatic cylinder. Maybe with not-Lego(tm) tubing that was, maybe 1/4 to 1/2 inch [6.35 to 12.7 mm :P ] in radius (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        RE: All-around-the-robot bump detection
   Hmmmmm, It's morning and I haven't had coffee yet so bear this in mind but it seems to me that this is a) a fairly cool scheme for post collision detection, and b)expandable to support direction detection through the use of 4 sensors. Imagine that (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
 

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