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Subject: 
Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
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 (...) (27 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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