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IR camera?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:32:54 GMT
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[linh@moses.xenocom.]Spamcake[com]
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I'm not sure how feasible this would be, but has anyone considered
making a digital camera using the light sensor? All you'd need is
a focusing mechanism with lenses/mirrors, and a couple of motors to
scan left to right and up and down. Sounds easy enough. :)
You could just upload one pixel at a time to the pc via the IR port.
Would this be the "ultimate" project for the RCX? Or maybe a
project to measure the speed of light, a torsion balance, or a
nifty handy-dandy little RCX cyclotron? OK, maybe not a cyclotron.
Maybe a spectrometer. Just wondering what you all think the ultimate
project might be. Personally, I'd like to eventually do an RCX/PC
AI or artificial life project that allows the PC to become self-aware
by investigating and manipulating its environment through the RCX.
Linh
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| Pin-holes have always made dandy focusing mechanisms... (...) snip Gordie -- "It is better to ask a 'stupid question' than to make a stupid mistake." (25 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: IR camera?
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| (...) I nominate a Lego "assembler" as an "ultimate" project for a RCX (or more likely a group of RCXes with a PC). I've seen a few Lego brick sorters, an assembler seems like a logical next step. Once you have all those bricks programmatically (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: IR camera?
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| Hi, yes, I actually had the same idea: use the light sensor on a robot as a crude mobile low-quality camera, which sends back scan-lines to the PC via datalog. however, thinking about the needed IR transmission and the line-of-sight precondition (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I'm not an AI expert, so correct me if I'm wrong. To evolve, you need a purpose and some means to give it a score how it performs in real life. It would evolve into what? It needs a purpose. And why should it evolve in the first place? How (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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