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Hi Folks, Has anyone managed to get the Mindstorms light sensor working with the Cybermaster? If so how! The Lego Spirit.OCX doc sort of implies that sensors that require power will not work with Cybermaster and I can't get mine to work! However I (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cybermaster & Light sensor
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Andy Shaw wrote in message ... (...) sensors (...) made (...) There are two ways: 1) Using the standard software on the Mindstorms cd-rom: You have to 'fool' the program with a little trick, see (URL) select Cybermaster from menu 2) Writing your (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cybermaster & Light sensor
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(...) But this will only make "on"/"off" measurements available, right? Surely one cannot read the actual light reading off the sensor in this way. (...) Are you actually saying that sensors that require power will indeed work on CyberMaster, (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cybermaster & Light sensor
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(...) Ok. There are two ways to use the light sensor, both powered and unpowered. When unpowered it just senses environment light, powered it will emitt its own light, so doesn't need environmental light. Cybermaster can use the sensor unpowered, (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cybermaster & Light sensor
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Eric Brok wrote in message ... (...) I just gave it a quick try; indeed the Cybermaster unit does NOT power the light sensor. But it can use it as a passive sensor. Eric (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cybermaster & Light sensor
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Hi Folks, I've just come to the same conclusion as Eric on this one. My previous tests were for the powered mode. The passive mode seems to work fine (though ut does seem to require a resonably bright light source). Guess which mode I wanted to use (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cybermaster & Light sensor
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Another question would be: Which sensors require power to operate? Only the light sensor (in active mode), or other sensors as well? How about the angle sensor? Does it require power to operate? Or the temperature sensor? Fredrik (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cybermaster & Light sensor
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The rotation sensor is powered also. (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cybermaster & Light sensor
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(...) My latest tests indicate that SensorType() does not exist with CyberMaster. I think the main function of SensorType() is to switch external power on/off depending the sensor type. Since this function seems to not exist, it is not possible give (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cybermaster & Light sensor
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Anyone know how the sensors are sampled? Would it be possible to power the sensor from the third motor drive output and synchronise turning off the power just before the sensor is actually sampled? Just a thought... Andy (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cybermaster & Light sensor
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(...) See (URL) for details on how the RCXsensors are sampled. I don't think you could recreate the RCX function because you probably don't have anyway to know when a Cybermaster is going to sample it's input. (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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