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Re: CM: MotorCurrent
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Sun, 3 Jan 1999 18:45:34 GMT
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Original-From:
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Laurentino Martins <lau@mail.telepac.pt/nospam/>
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At 16:01 03-01-1999 Sunday , you wrote:
> > At 10:23 10-12-1998 Thursday , Fredrik Glöckner wrote:
> > > For the Cybermaster unit, it is possible to monitor the current of the
> > > external motor, measured in milliamps. I assume this can be used to
> > > detect when the motor is stalled.
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> Laurentino Martins skrev i meddelandet
> <4.1.19981210111532.00a18080@195.61.90.220>...
> > I only made one test with it, and by the looking at the results I couldn't • tell if the motor running loaded, but I may be wrong!
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > My opinion is that this function was only implemented in CyberMaster to
> make sure >children when playing their games with the computer, built their
> vehicles/robots >*properly* with the motor attached to the right place.
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> I just started reading this newsgroup, as the kids got their (and _mine_) CM
> for Christmas. So sorry if this already has been covered in later posts.
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> I think Fredrik is right, and Laurentino wrong.
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> I successfully made a program for the Crusher arms, which monitored the
> current of the third motor to decide when to stop it. It worked like a
> charm!
Great! Another point in favor of CyberMaster! :-)
In my test I saw that the value looked like random, and in fact it is very
unstable, but I didn't went any further to see if it had a pattern. I'm glad it
has.
Laurentino Martins *<||:-)
[mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt]
[http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/]
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| I only made one test with it, and by the looking at the results I couldn't tell if the motor running loaded, but I may be wrong! The result of the function seems to be: .If no motor is attached, the result is zero. .If a motor is attached and not (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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