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Re: digital camera entirely made of mindstorms?
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Date: 
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:28:03 GMT
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Robert Munafo <munafo@gcctech.com> wrote:
Well, you'd have to ask him to be sure ( mailto:amnon@best.com ). But, I think

Ooh, I didn't see that. Thanks.

the reason the image isn't blocky is because the robot scans at high
resolution. By that I mean, he made the robot scan several hundred "scanlines"
with several hundred pixels per scanline. And the reason the image is fuzzy is
because, as you pointed out, the Adventurers magnifying glass doesn't work too
well.

Hmmm. I guess in that case my second scepticalness is over the ability to
aim position the lens that precisely with lego gears...

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: digital camera entirely made of mindstorms?
 
(...) The error you refer to can be eliminated by using a rotation sensor on the axle of greatest angular velocity, and (more important) by scanning in the same direction each time. - Robert Munafo (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) Well, you'd have to ask him to be sure ( mailto:amnon@best.com ). But, I think the reason the image isn't blocky is because the robot scans at high resolution. By that I mean, he made the robot scan several hundred "scanlines" with several (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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