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    Re: Working around the 3 output limitation —Eric Brok
    snip (...) Actually there is a working LEGO compass, put probably not large and reliable enough to be read by a sensor. Eric Brok (25 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        navigation with compass —Hao-yang Wang
     (...) Light sensor with a magnifier? :-) I tried using the differential gear to "remember" the initial heading of my robot, and painfully discovered that the result would drift off after many turns. Now I think compass is the way to go. (I wonder (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        (canceled) —Hao-yang Wang
    
         RE: navigation with compass —Kirk Davis
     Here's some info on a compass sensor from Dinsmore Instrument Company for about 12 bucks. FYI (URL) >>Having said that at some stage I'm going to hook a compass up to my RCX, (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
    
         Re: navigation with compass —Richard Franks
     (...) Richard (25 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        (canceled) —Hao-yang Wang
    
         Re: navigation with compass —Nick Taylor
      What is a source for your floating compass? - - - Nick - - - Hao-yang Wang wrote: <snip> (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
     
          Re: navigation with compass —Hao-yang Wang
      Sorry for this late follow-up to this old thread. Real Life has kept me away from Lego for the whole week, and finally I am back. Searching for "compass" in the LUGNET news archive turns up 28 entries, so this topic has been discussed long ago, and (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
    
         RE: navigation with compass —Simen Svale Skogsrud
     (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        (canceled) —Hao-yang Wang
 

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