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Re: legway :only lego parts
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Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:02:24 GMT
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1: It's an ordinary telephone prepayment card with the light sensor peering
through a hole in its center. It's supposed to decrease the amount of
reflected surrounding light that would interfere with the sensor.

Toni

In lugnet.robotics, Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net> writes:
Brian B. Alano wrote:

There were other contributions to his solution.

1. Reading the babelfish translation (babelfish.altavista.com), I note that he
used a non-Lego part to increase the amount of light reflected to the sensor.

It's hard to imagine what that could be - a lense maybe?



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(...) Actually, I can do this. A friend can even balalnce his glasses - wire rim like John Lennon - so well that they look stuck to his fingers... And when he does it on his nose... 8-O What helps is that we are both left handed == a few 00ms (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) It's hard to imagine what that could be - a lense maybe? (...) Yes - I guess so. (...) Yes - exactly. It takes more force to start it moving once it's balanced. f = m * a so if the mass is higher, it accellerates more slowly for a given amount (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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