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Subject: 
RE: Spybotics vs Cricket
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:53:19 GMT
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John wrote:

> It has the obvious 2 sensor inputs (1 touch and 1 light).  But it also has 3
> IR sensors (2 at the front angled outward and 1 at the rear facing straight
> back).  These allow the Spybot to not only sense IR but tell where it is
> coming from with fairly impressive accuracy.  This array of sensors can be
> read via program control as well.

John,

I think you may be confused about the IR detectors. There are only
two and they are facing forwards. The 2 white parts facing forward
and the white part facing backwards are low power IR emitters....

Cheers, Ralph



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  Re: Spybotics vs Cricket
 
(...) I may definitely be confused. I was looking at the Spybot.h header recently and saw this: const iDirection = 4 //world & target (R/O) const cLeft = 0 //world[nBot,iDirection] & target[iDirection] values const cLeftOfCentre = 1 //here zone only (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
  Re: Spybotics vs Cricket
 
(...) I totally agree... The three IR emitters seems to be IR leds with a very wide viewing angle (this kind of package with a flat top can emit on 120°) so a Spybot can be IR-seen all around Philo (24 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Spybotics vs Cricket
 
(...) The Spybot brick has 3 motor outputs. A & B are the two built-in motors. Output C is the VLL light (pretty much exactly like the Scout brick wrt the third output). You can also control the LEDs on an individual basis (3 red, 3 green, and 1 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)  

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