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Subject: 
shaft encoders for a track drive
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Date: 
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:26:59 GMT
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Steve Wall <swall@flemingc.NOMORESPAMon.ca>
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Has anybody out there constructed shaft encoders for a track driven
MOBOT. If any body has I would appreciate any help you could give me.
I wasn't going to use shaft encoders but I guess they are needed
for many things correct? Is there anyway to build encoders without
using the led's and the colored disks? or is that the easiest way?

___________________________________________________
Steve Wall
Sir Sandford Fleming college
Swall@flemingc.on.ca



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  Re: shaft encoders for a track drive
 
Steve Wall wrote: <snip> (...) I've had good results using Hall effect magnetic sensors. I found some 0.1" dia. disk magnets at the hobby shop and embedded them into the holes in some Lego Technic pulley wheels. It's true that only about three (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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