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Re: Color sensor and brick mixer MOC
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 2 May 2002 20:01:36 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Philippe Hurbain writes:
As for ambient light, I thought this morning of an (obvious) improvement:
add a step where no Led is lit (but where CDS resistor is active, the dummy
position doesn't work) to measure ambient and substract it from readings.

I did this modification, very easy (simply connect R4 to pin 1 of IC10
instead of pin 10). The cycle becomes (starting at dummy position) : ambient
measure > red > green > blue > dummy. When you substract ambient value to
other components, you get slightly more latitude in sensor position/angle.

Philo
www.philohome.com



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  Re: Color sensor and brick mixer MOC
 
Hi John, (...) ;o) (...) Yes - and I think it is difficult to avoid. That's why my brick sorter places the brick in a fixed location, relatively shielded of ambient light. In this controlled environment, the color sensor is very reliable, and (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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