Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01982
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Justin jaf60@student.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 20:22:53 +1200
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Sensor Idea
> All someone would have to do is have an optosensor disc on the motor
> shaft so the circuit could tell whether the sensor was SUPPOSED to be
> closed (edge detection, down position) or OPEN (wall sensor, up
> position) Only practical for larger bots, due to the motors or whatever
> for moving the feelers around, but if they were moved erratically
> enough, they could be scarily lifelike...
Perhaps putting the touch switch at the end of the antenna would allow
you to mount it on a spring and thus let the jerky motion of the bot
make it wave around, saving the motor (and looking a little less
lifelike :)
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