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Re: IR scanner
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:45:45 GMT
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Original-From:
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Andy Gombos <gombos@ne=ihatespam=.infi.net>
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GOMBOS@NE.INFIstopspammers.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...
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> 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
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| (...) 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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