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| | Robotics Show on TLC
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| Anyone interested, the show is: Extreme Machines: Incredible Robots A look at robots and the long-term benefits and possible consequences of their capabilities. Rating: TV-G Category: Other, Documentary Originating Country: United States Date Time (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | Re: Sensor questions
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| (...) The Electronic Surplus Dealer Goldmine, (URL) been selling some weather balloon electronics innards for a few years. On this board there are some relevant sensors: a thermistor, some sort of barometric chip and a humidity "device". The (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | IR Question
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| Greetings, I've heard mention of the various Sharp IR sensors which can give different distance readings for different zones. Part of my final year project is to design and investigate various sensors, but I really have to generate the stuff myself (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | Re: SPI Port
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| I interfaced my Vector2X to the handyboard without using the SPI port and without any machine language. I set the compass to be in slave mode and used three digital outputs on the expansion board to control the RESET, SCLK, and SS lines. I used (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | Re: Sensor questions
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| You wrote: I then tried the LM34. There is no calibration pin and it uses farenheit. 1F=10Mv. For some reason, the output from this device varies very little with changes in the room temperature. Now the present room temperature is 58F, during the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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