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Subject: 
Light Sensor question
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Date: 
Thu, 8 Jul 2004 11:37:20 GMT
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I'm new to mindstorms so I have a simple question. At work, we're trying to
measure the light tightness of rings. Basically this involves observing how much
light passes through the outside edge of a ring. Is there any way a mindstorm
light sensor or vision command can do this for us?



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  Re: Light Sensor question
 
(...) Sam, you need to tell us more about 'how much' light-tightness you want and if the ambient has some or no light at all. As an extreme example, in testing a photographic darkroom for light-tightness it is common to hang a few rolls of unexposed (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
  Re: Light Sensor question
 
(...) Sam, By default programming when you configure a sensor input to be a light sensor, it gives you back readings in the 0-100 range (i.e. percentage of the maximum possible reading). To get better resolution (which I expect you might want), you (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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