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    Re: Using the IR Port to simultaneously send and receive for proximity sensing —Peter Hesketh
   In article <01BE8785.9B90A2A0.d...home.com>, David Cuthill <david.cuthill@home.com> writes (...) Unfortunately the speed of light is *** to fast. A reflection from an object 2 feet away would return in 4 nanoseconds. Each data bit of the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Using the IR Port to simultaneously send and receive for proximity sensing —Kekoa Proudfoot
     (...) In fact, the IR emitters and IR receiver are in such close proximity that the receiver already receives whatever the emitters emit, using a direct path. The RCX ROM ignores messages it sends out and is thereby able to avoid getting lost in the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Using the IR Port to simultaneously send and receive for proximity sensing —John Cooper
   (...) Ah, this is a vital piece of information I had hitherto missed. I had been puzzling over the 30ms delay which makes the Mark R. David proximity detector work, 77 times 417us is 32ms - Mark is sampling right at the end of the transmission. My (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
 

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