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Message #01322
To: beam@corp.sgi.com beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Justin jaf60@student.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 9:33 AM
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Question on sensors..:)
>> Now i shall add another q.
>> when the bot reverser times out, won't the bot just head straight back
into
>> the wall?
>
>Again, it depends on the bot. If you've got a two-motor photovore, you
>can have a reverser for each motor, so that when the bot goes into
>reverse, it rotates on the spot in the direction away from the wall.
>You can do variations - perhaps the reverser reverses one motor and
>stops the other, thus it turns and backs away at the same time. Or the
>reverser reverses the entire robot, but it's built like a cheap RC car,
>which turns while in reverse, or...
>space>
>
>:-)
>
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