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Subject: 
Re: tracking robot position
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:32:07 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Philippe Jadin writes:
Using two rotation sensors should do the job nicely, at a higher cost
however. But you can connect them directly to the RCX.
My initial thought was to use an old discarded mouse, at cost 0... ;-)

About that : did anyone build a reliable (and cheaper) rotation sensor
replacement? Why not using a lego wheel with holes and some kind of
mouse light sensor :
There are some of those, using optic fibre from the Extreme Creatures kit, for
example.

/Vlad



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  Re: tracking robot position
 
Using two rotation sensors should do the job nicely, at a higher cost however. But you can connect them directly to the RCX. About that : did anyone build a reliable (and cheaper) rotation sensor replacement? Why not using a lego wheel with holes (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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