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Re: Rolling ball clock revisited
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:38:44 GMT
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Matt Lawrence <MATT@nospamTECHNORONIN.COM>
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, David Koudys wrote:

The problem should have been very simple: each minute, start the elevator until
a ball is detected by one sensor. Unfortunately, my first try over a several
hours period showed me that my clock was fast, several seconds each hour! After
eliminating all mechanical possibilities (two balls at a time, or an undetected
ball), I concluded that my RCX itself was fast... To make sure, I finally put a
frequency meter probe on RCX crystal, and indeed it oscillates at 16.03 MHz
instead of 16.00 MHz. So I finally added some code to wait for 6.92 seconds each
hour. "

You mean the RCX doesn't speack NTP.  How primitive!

-- Matt
Nothing great was ever accomplished without _passion_



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  Rolling ball clock revisited
 
I finally rebuilt (URL) Bob Kojima's rolling ball clock> with RCX control (and other minor modifications) (URL) Description of these modifications, program, photos, videos are (URL) here> Special thanks to Bob for the time spent to LDraw his (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, FTX)  

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