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Re: Questions about sensors
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:39:39 GMT
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Curt Mills, WE7U <hacker@tc.#Spamcake#fluke.com>
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On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Eric Noyau wrote:
> it. For example I played with a photocell plugged in the HB and I'm
> trying to see what I can do with it. It can detect a color change when
> it's close to a surface (I guess I can build a line follower from that),
> it can also detect a light source in a distance if you encase the
> photocell in a tube to narrow its angle. Is there any other uses?
One thing that was discussed before (I think on this mailing list?) that I
thought was pretty cool was a small robot with a microphone (FM wireless
mike perhaps?) and a photocell. It would stay in the shadows while
trying to get close to people speaking. Bump sensors and/or ultrasonics
sensors would also be nice to keep it from running into things much.
Curt Mills, WE7U hacker.NO_*SPAM@tc.fluke.com
Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin
"Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
"Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
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| Hi all, I'm having fun with my HB! For a software guy like me a 8 bit processor at 2 Mhz with 32K of RAM is a little small but it's so easy to add sensors to it it's just plain fun! But I'm an hardware newbie and I need more info on the sensors I (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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