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Re: New RCX sensor: Wire guidance sensor
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Date: 
Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:18:40 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Gus Jansson writes:
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 sensor to a car
with conventional front wheel steering by mounting the sensor on the
parallel steering linkage.
Actually the first vehicle I used to test this sensor is a rack-and-pinion
steered car, see a short video (Divx3) here:
http://philohome2.free.fr/jalopy.avi

This is what I did with my SteerBot as well as
later steering robots that I have built but not documented.
Documentation is also why I used a standard roverbot to demonstrate my
sensor, building instruction for my steerbot car (RIS only parts) are not
yet ready...


Here is my SteerBot page.
www.lugnet.com/~726/SteerBot

Here is a photo of a more recent front wheel steering line tracker that
would take this sensor nicely.
www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=258376

Would work fine, the guidance sensor works as a differential sensor, and
should behave just like your dual light sensor equipment.

Cheers,

Philo
www.philohome.com



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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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