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Boe Bot Roaming With Ping Help

awbball11awbball11 Posts: 17
edited 2008-12-27 04:32 in BASIC Stamp
·I looked on the Ping roaming and it says you have to have your boe bot hooked up with the roaming with IR sensors. I have no idea how to do that!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

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  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2008-12-27 02:39
    Download and read "Robotics with the BoeBot" if you don't already have it. It has the roaming with IR program and a description of how to hook up the IR sensors.

    www.parallax.com/tabid/535/Default.aspx
  • $WMc%$WMc% Posts: 1,884
    edited 2008-12-27 04:32
    awbball11

    Not exactly sure of what You mean about roaming with Ping and the need for IR sensors. The PING is an ULTRASONIC device, While the IR is an Infrared LED/Transistor set up.

    With todays lights,The fluorescent type, energy savers, They seem to play havoc on the IR sensors.How ever the PING is as BLIND as a BAT.And that is how it works.The program code sends out a short 40kHz burst to the PING, then flips the I/O pin from an output to an input and then waits for the echo return from the 40kHz burst it sent earlier from the PING ,Do a little math and Viola.Its all ultrasonic.No seeing.No interference from lights.And its quite accurate

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