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  Light sensor sampling freq?
 
I'm working on a little nav idea that my robot can find my 'base' which is sweping a bright red led 'laser' over the area. I have to admit that I ventured into the Xacto and crazy glue area by using a 'laser' pointer and glueing four tiny mirrors (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
 
  RE: Light sensor sampling freq?
 
Standard Lego firmware samples every 3 msec. BricOS is much faster. I believe it is faster than once per second. RobotC on NXT is programmable to be 0.5 msec scan, 1 msec, 2 msec, ... up to 255 msec. But remember the readings are not persistent. If (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
 
  Re: Light sensor sampling freq?
 
(...) Hmm, so speed isn't the issue, the issue is that the 'laser' must hit the detector head on. But luckily that was solved by inserting a thin slice of paper inside the 2x1 red transpararent brick and moving it tone stud in front of the sensor. (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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