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Subject: 
Re: IR scanner
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:45:45 GMT
Original-From: 
Andy Gombos <gombos@ne.ANTISPAMinfi.net>
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Why don't you just get a Pentium III at 900MHz to run a sensor?! If it is not fast
enough, then you could still have one brick that could beat the snot out of most of
the computers that are running them!!! (+ extra RAM, not firmware - real programs on
a normal computer!!)

Just an idea....
Andy


[ BTOE check...

186000 mi/s * 5280 feet/mi = 96,720,000 ft/s ==> 1.0339e-08 s/ft
means we're talking about hundredths or thousandths of microseconds
here.....]




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  Re: IR scanner
 
(...) I may be underestimating the capabilities of current Lego sensors, but I believe that the time difference of (light across 1 foot) and (light across 10 feet) would be too small to register without some seriously fast processing. [ BTOE (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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