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photocell arrangement
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Wed, 19 Jun 1996 08:58:17 GMT
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Jeff Keyzer <jkeyzer@calweb.+spamcake+com>
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I'm experimenting with photocells, and I'm looking for some feedback
from anyone who's got some insight or experience with this sort of thing.
Essentially, I have two photocells, both facing forward, on the left and
right side of my robot. I'd like to use them to track light sources, such
as a flashlight, LED, anything like that. I'm trying to figure out the best
way to shield unwanted light away from the sensors, and right now I have
about an inch of heatshrink tubing extending from the sensors. However, I
have a feeling that this might be too long to yield any sensible results
from the sensors, since the field of view of the sensors is extremely
narrow. Does anyone know the best way to do this? My next step will
probably be to chop some length off of the heat shrink tubing, but I'm not
sure quite how long to make them...
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 | | Re: photocell arrangement
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| About photocells... I did this once and used some of the stuff that Rodney Brooks et al were working on with subsumption to build the ultimate "bug". It was a tiny cockroach type robot with a small FM wireless microphone strapped to its back. The (...) (29 years ago, 20-Jun-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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