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Subject: 
Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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Date: 
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 22:52:15 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Chris Osborn) writes:
[...] in college [...]
We glued a small mirror onto a piece of aluminum foil wrapped
around the end of an open tube, and placed it outside in the quad.
Then we bounced a laser off it and got it aimed at a special LED
for receiving the laser, with the LED hooked up as a mic through
an amp. Worked pretty good, we could hear everything that was going
on around the tube we left outside.

That sounds like what you would get if you gave two tin cans and a piece of
string to the Defense Department and asked them to develop a field radio.

- Robert Munafo                           http://www.mrob.com/
  LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ #+ S-- LS++ Hsp M+ A@ LM++ YB64m IC13



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  Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
 
(...) Yah, did this in college long ago, before laser pens were common. We used the "big" lasers. :-) We also glued a small mirror onto a piece of aluminum foil wrapped around the end of an open tube, and placed it outside in the quad. Then we (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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