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Message #12730
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Dennison Bertram dibst11+@pitt.edu
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:18:17 -0500
Subject: RE: "Electric nerve" designs
That looks like a pretty nice design, on your circuit where it say's, "to
robot" how exactly does it connect to your control circuitry? What sort of
output does it produce also? I'm looking at it, and I'm supposing that
changes in the 'ground trigger' will alter the resistance across the
transistor, anyway Looks nice! It does remind me of something called the
"captiflector" which has been 'big news' or something like that. It
basically detects objects and their proximity by measuring the changes in
the capacitence of the air around it. Pretty cool, I really like your
contact sensor though, that's a really neat implementation of a touch
sensor.
dennison
Forgot to mention - before adding the "Ground trigger" to an actual
robot, with the exposed pin some order of static ZAP protection would
probably be a good idea (or perhaps an IC socket so you just
quick-change the 240 after an "accident". :-))
Any suggestions?
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