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Re: My "new" rotation sensor
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 30 Jun 1999 05:03:02 GMT
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jon@!avoidspam!midnightbeach.com
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Back in January, Simen Svale Skogsrud wrote:
> I just made a useful discovery. I have been struggling for some hours
> making a reasonably useful yet compact rotation sensor using only the light
> sensor and the fiber-optic lights. I was unable to fit this into my
> construction. Then I just tried to connect the fiber-optic lights unit to
> the sensor-input and to my surprise this works fantastic! When connected to
> the a sensor input configured for a light-sensor the unit produces a
> reliable series of pulses that are easily counted. The raw value alters
> between 1024 and about 500.
Newbie here. Is this "fiber-optic lights unit" the same as the rotation
sensor that's now on the Mindstorms page?
Has anyone tried turning the light sensor into a rotation sensor by
building a shaft encoder? Face the light sensor into a 'tunnel' and put
a (four bladed?) 'fan' in front of the other tunnel opening. You'd get a
pulse off the light sensor every quarter turn.
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| Jon Shemitz <jon@midnightbeach.com> wrote in message news:3779A506.A84A92...ach.com... (...) No. LEGO makes a real rotation sensor that is well worth the $15 from World Shop. The fiber-optic thing is really a fancy decoration part than can be used (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I just made a useful discovery. I have been struggling for some hours making a reasonably useful yet compact rotation sensor using only the light sensor and the fiber-optic lights. I was unable to fit this into my construction. Then I just tried to (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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