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- From: rlee@bgsu.edu (Bob Lee)
- Subject: Need some direction
- Message-ID: <By1E69.D52@andy.bgsu.edu>
- Sender: rlee@andy.bgsu.edu (Bob Lee)
- Organization: Bowling Green State Univ.
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:51:44 GMT
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- OK guys! I've got an idea for a project.
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- I'm going to tear apart my old Big Trak (remember that old toy) and turn
- it into a rover vehicle that will search out and find a particular object,
- find being that it will park next to it and then terminate all activity
- until told otherwise.
-
- Does anyone know offhand where one could find the internal specs of a Big
- Trak? How about the sensors? I figure I could use bumping sensors to tell
- it where obstacles are. But what's the best type of sensoring method to
- use that will tell an onboard computer when it finds the object it's
- looking for? I haven't decided on an object yet, so that's still up in the
- air.
-
- If these questions are answered in the faq I apologize, I haven't had time
- to go thru it yet.
-
- Thanks!
-
- -BOB
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