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Re: The IR beacon, was Re: Homebrew sensors?
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:33:25 GMT
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Fred Read <(fred@corp.netcom.net.uk)stopspam()>
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Paul Haas wrote:
> ...
> I plan on making a "garage" for the RCX. An otherwise dark
> place with the IR tower. The RCX will know it is "home" when
> the IR beacon is very bright and it is otherwise dark. I get
> beacond on readings of 70 to 100 at 6 inches depending on alignment.
And if you mounted some sort of plug on the front of your robot it could
mate with a matching socket when it entered the garage and wait there
until its batteries were recharged!
--
If it ain't opinionated, it ain't Rich Teer.
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Message has 1 Reply: | | Re: The IR beacon, was Re: Homebrew sensors?
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| (...) Eventually, I want to make a robot that can keep the cats water dish filled. Eventually, maybe a humidifier. So the task becomes finding the water source, loading up, getting to the water destination and unloading. This is easy to turn into a (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) The light sensor is directional without a tunnel. I use the IR tower as a beacon. I've got a perl script that listens for RCX messages. Here's the normal sequence of events: 1. RCX sends the message 2 "Turn on your beacon, so I can find you" (...) (26 years ago, 13-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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