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| | | Inspired by vehicles moving precisely along the roads in Miniland, I have created this homebrew sensor, which allows a RCX robot to follow a wire track. Since distance between sensor and wire can exceed 1 cm, the wire may even be hidden below (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | Thats amazing! I'm impressed. When are you going to mass produce for the world market? -Rob "Philippe Hurbain" <philohome@free.fr> wrote in message news:H8B9FH.Jvq@lugnet.com... (...) track. (...) be (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | (...) Maybe John Barnes would be interested in doing something with this? One other question - do you have any idea how long can the wire can be with the AC generator you built? Regards ROSCO (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | | | Hi Rob and Ross, (...) Sorry, I have neither time nor structure to do that... (...) I hope so ! (...) I have not tested that (my longest track is about 5 meters), but as actual current is fairly low I think that wire can be quite long. I used thin (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Øyvind Steinnes
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| | | | | | "Philippe Hurbain" <philohome@free.fr> wrote in message news:H8C9HB.6qJ@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) with (...) be (...) Seeing this get me thinking of the lawnmower that my father has. It made by Husqarna (a Swedish company) and it is a fully (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Steve Baker
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| | | | | | | (...) I've seen similar things on sale in my local branch of Fry's here in the USA. I wish they'd make a vacuum-cleaner that worked on similar principles. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Kyle McDonald
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| | | | | | (...) I don't know what principle it works on, but Brookstones was selling a autonomous robot vacuum cleaner recently. It was in the store I was in before christmas. -Kyle (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Steve Baker
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| | | | | | (...) Huh! Well - if only I'd done a web search I'd have known that! (URL) it works, it's not a bad deal at $199. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage : (URL) : (4 URLs) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Stef Mientki
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| | | | | very good application-idea Philippe, and nicely implemented ! Looking at your idea, brings me on another idea. Shouldn't it be possible to build another wire-follower, consisting of just 1 wire, fed by a DC source and a measured with a Hall-sensor? (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | | | Hello Stef, (...) Thanks ;o) (...) That might work, but getting a high enough field to be detected and be immune to external sources (including earth magnetic field!) would require a LARGE current, not very practical... Philo www.philohome.com (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Stef Mientki
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| | | | | | hi Philippe, (...) Unfortunately, I think you're right :-( But if you never shoot, you won't hit anything. Stef Mientki (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Gus Jansson
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| | | | This is beautiful! I, too, have been inspired by the cars driving around Legoland (though in California and Denmark) but my solution has been to use the light sensor on a visible track. It occures to me that it would be very easy to adapt your (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | | (...) Actually the first vehicle I used to test this sensor is a rack-and-pinion steered car, see a short video (Divx3) here: (URL) This is what I did with my SteerBot as well as (...) Documentation is also why I used a standard roverbot to (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor —Robert Fay
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| | | | (...) Hi Gus, This is a very impressive project. Thanks for sharing the information. I tested your program with a similar bot just to see your program in action. It performed flawlessly. Bob Fay (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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