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Re: Polaroids
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Wed, 5 Feb 1997 11:31:30 GMT
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Prabal Dutta <prabal@AVOIDSPAMdmsc.com>
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Jim,
Check out the following links, the work has already been done for you!
ftp://cherupakha.media.mit.edu/pub/contrib/ic_contrib/kent/
ftp://cherupakha.media.mit.edu/pub/contrib/ic_contrib/kent/readme
- Prabal
James D. Tegarden wrote:
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> My design team would like to incorporate two polaroid sensors with our
> handy board. We were wondering just how do we send the INIT pulse from
> the HB to the Polaroid sensors?
> The member in charge of writing the code for our robot quickly drafted
> up some pseudo code:
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> transmit( )
> int sonar_port = 1;
> long echo_time;
> long start_time;
> { start_time = clock;
> pulse_transmitter (10ms)
> delay(20);
> do while sonar_port()
> }
> echo_time = clock - start_time
> return(echo_time)
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> We would like to know just how to process the echo time, as well as how
> the digital port in question will receive the echo return from the
> Polaroid.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Jim Tegarden
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Columbus OH 43210-0579 WWW: http://www.dmsc.com
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | "Old" (pre-6500) Polaroid sonar boards?
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| Has anyone done anything with the "old" Polaroid boards? (I've got some I pulled out of some auto-focus cameras I bought cheap many years ago.) I can hook them up and make them work by hand, and I've got one partially wired into a Handy Board, but I (...) (28 years ago, 6-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | Re: "Old" (pre-6500) Polaroid sonar boards?
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| Well, that was too easy. Guess I should have read all the way through the FAQ earlier... *thud. I've now got the MISO output driving the VSW input on the sonar board, and am reading a digital input for the MFLOG signal. Works like a charm. I'd still (...) (28 years ago, 6-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Polaroids
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| My design team would like to incorporate two polaroid sensors with our handy board. We were wondering just how do we send the INIT pulse from the HB to the Polaroid sensors? The member in charge of writing the code for our robot quickly drafted up (...) (28 years ago, 5-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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