Ping))) Crawler question.

walice_drel

Will the ping sensor kit work properly on a boe-bot with a the crawler kit installed on it? With the legs on it the boe-bot warbles around quite a bit. Will this effect the senor readings?

Chris Savage

Readings will be erratic at best, but placement will make a bigger difference. It may or may not be able to see the legs. What you could do is run one and display the results while the bot is moving and see how it affects your readings. Only one person that I know of ever mentioned anything and he got erratic readings, however that could have been placement as well. Take care.

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Chris Savage
Parallax Tech Support

walice_drel

I just ordered the ping kit with the servo and brackets and the crawler kit. I should be here wed. Hopefully they will work together. If it does I will post a pic of it. It should look prety cool...lol

Whit

It might look cool to take a few steps, stop and ping))) around, and then take off again. That would surely work without any problems and would look more bug like too.

I guess it might be possible to time the ping))) to a set leg placement (same height, same position, etc) to standardize the readings.

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Whit+


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walice_drel

That is a great idea! I think im gonna give that a try when the parts get here wednsday.