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Re: CyberMaster
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:49:11 GMT
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Laurentino Martins <lmartins@marktest.pt[ihatespam]>
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At 20:11 20-10-1999 Wednesday , Anders Isaksson wrote:
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> The rotation sensors on the built-in motors are a bit disappointing to me, as
> they do not indicate direction when you turn the motor by hand (when you do it
> by a program, you _know_ which way it's turning).
Yes, that's why they are not called Rotation Sensors, they are called Tachometers and work like the counter in your car.
They count *distance* and they are very in it, because it's precision is about 50 ticks for each full rotation of the motor.
Laurentino Martins
[ mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt ]
[ http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/ ]
Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you,
because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.
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| (...) The CyberMaster has a lot of potential and in fact can do things the RCX is not able to, like to count the rotations of the two internal motors. The problem of the CyberMaster is to harness it's potential, because the software is all about (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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