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Re: Light sensor initialization?
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Date: 
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:59:58 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.=ihatespam=org
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Jonathan Knudsen <jonathan@oreilly.com> wrote:
2. Different light sensors produce different readings for the same amount
  of light. Doing a runtime calibration increases the chances that your
  program can work on someone else's robot.

This is my inspiration for adding on-the-fly init code, btw. RoboTag uses
two seperate robots, and it turns out that my friend -- the source of the
second mindstorms kit -- has a light sensor which reads about 10 "darker"
than mine.

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: Light sensor initialization?
 
Matthew's program takes one reading at initialization time to determine a baseline value. Any reading that falls 7 units below this is assumed to be a dark line. I take a somewhat more conservative approach, taking 10 readings over one second and (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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