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Re: What is your current Mindstorm project?
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Thu, 1 Oct 1998 17:33:18 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote:

Karim <knassar@mindspring.com> wrote:
OOOhhh! what's that?  tell me more :)

Check out http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics/, and in specific
http://www.enteract.com/~dbaum/lego/nqc/index.html

Thanks!

My current project is a design for a SolarVane (Sun Tracking Unit) that only
uses 2 light sensors (Ideally you'd have 4, but I came up with an elegant little
fudge to solve that)... Now I just need a second light sensor :)

Neat. What's your kludge?

Each pair of light sensors is used to determine variance above and below the "ideal"
position, with one pair controling each axis of motion (when both light sensors in a
pair are in shade, the head is pointed directly at the sun (or bright light)).  So in
order to use only one pair for both axes, I plan to rotate the tracking head 90
degrees between each tracking period, using touch sensors to coordinate the 90 degree
turns.

--Karim



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(...) Check out (URL) and in specific (URL) Quite C is (as the name implies) a C-like programming language for the RCX. It runs on MS Windows and MacOS, and as soon as Dave gets around to working on the serial code, on Linux. It's _much_ more (...) (26 years ago, 1-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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