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Subject: 
Re: WTB Rotation sensor
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 19:57:44 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Nick Goetz writes:
Where can I find a rotation sensor? I saw it in the Dacta catalog but it
seems really expensive.

  Yeah, I think they are WAY too expensive too.  Try this though, use a
touch switch, about $10 most places, and one of the larger pulley wheels
with the 6 (I think) holes in it.  Place the pulley on a shaft that the
wheel turns such that the switch is not triggered when the hole passes
over.  Then you can attach a counter to that button and count the ticks
you get to determine position or RPM rate.  This should be do-able in
"not too large" of a Rube Goldberg space...

DLC



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  WTB Rotation sensor
 
Where can I find a rotation sensor? I saw it in the Dacta catalog but it seems really expensive. -Nick (25 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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