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Re: Dark seeker project
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 17 Apr 1999 23:16:04 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Dennis Clark writes:
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> It wanders about looking for a really dark place
> and when it finds it for 5 readings, it shuts
> down and sleeps until light wakes it up. In the
> mean time it avoids objects and corners. This is
> quite a challenge for it in my livingroom, dining
> room area! This is where I turn it loose to live
> or die in the finest tradition of Brooks, to deal
> with a _real_ environment. Although the darn light
> sensor keeps vibrating loose from its wheel mount...
Could you elaborate more on "it shuts down and sleeps
until light wakes it up"? What do you mean by "shuts
down" exactly? How are you doing the "light wakes it
up" part?
I'm interested in this, as I would like to eventually
have my wanderer going into some form of low-battery-usage
sleep mode for several hours at a time.
> I have pics of it, but I have to develope the film
> as I haven't convinced myself to spring for a digital
> camera just yet, not quite yet... So it'll be on my
> web page eventually.
I'd like to see the pics eventually. Please make a post
here when they are available (or email me directly if you
would like).
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 | | Re: Dark seeker project
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| (...) [snip] (...) This is a fanciful description of observed behaviour. When it finds a dark corner it "coasts" the motors and stops looking at anything but the light sensor until that sensor detects light over the threshhold, then all of the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I have finally built a creation with my Mindstorms kit that uses all of the sensors (some twice) and all of the motor connections! It has two bump switches for a collision detector on the front, one of my RCX IRPD modules to try to detect potential (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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