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Re: Poor man's rotation sensor (?)
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Date: 
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:39:48 GMT
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Laurentino Martins <lau@mail#stopspam#.telepac.pt>
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At 04:39 31-08-1999 Tuesday , Joel Shafer wrote:
I thought your poor man's tachometer made a pretty good rotation sensor.


There two main differences between a Tachometer and a Rotation sensor

1. Tachometers count distance and do not tell you the direction the axle is rotating.

2. Tachometers must be pre-reset to zero and the angle can only the deduced after that:
   current_angle = n_of_ticks % n_of_ticks_per_360_degrees * 360 / n_of_ticks_per_360_degrees

Notes:
  - % is the modulo division: 4 % 2 = 0.
  - n_of_ticks_per_360_degrees in the example was equal to 16 (number of tooth x 2).



At 12:09 AM 8/31/99 +0100, you wrote:

Okay, I know this is a long shot and is probably useless, but here it goes
anyway:

The idea was to use the RAW mode of the Touch sensor to determine the
rotation of an axle on ANY given moment. This can be accomplished with a
6575 part (that comes in the Space Shuttle crane) and a regular Touch sensor.
[...]




Laurentino Martins

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