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Has anyone tried to use a garage door opener safety switch. These are I.R. transmitters and receivers, but I am not sure of the voltages to operate them. I did some searches but I am having trouble finding out specs on them. Anyone have any ides or answers?
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February 22, 2008 9:21 AM
Well I was wondering if you could use these to increase the range on roboquad. I noticed the lenses on both the transmitter and receiver are close to the ones on roboquad. However, I have no specs on the actual items themselves. I was wondering if you could use these in roboquad or any of the other robots.
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February 22, 2008 9:33 AM
They're not like light bulbs. Upgrading the scan hardware is not quite the same as replacing a 60Watt bulb with a 75Watt bulb.
Yes, you can adapt new hardware to the existing robots. You have to know the details of the existing electronics, and match the new hardware to those voltages and signals.
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February 22, 2008 10:53 AM
OK, this brings up another question. I am not familiar with RoboQuad's scanning ability. Does it use just the I.R. tranmitter and receiver or does it work in conjunction with the head LED's? In other words I see people doing LED hacks on Roboquad's head but this is for show only, correct? Changing the LED's in the head do not effect the I.R. range do they?
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February 22, 2008 11:11 AM
The L.E.D.'s have absolutely no effect on the Roboquad at all. It is just to make him look cool.
The way to boost is IR range is install newer hardware inside him with better lenses and higher grade IR recievers and transmitters. The left eye is the receiver, and the right is the transmitter (if you are looking at him from the front). You will notice that if you only cover one eye nothing happens. Both eyes must be covered because if the transmitter is covered, the receiver won't pick up the feedback. If the receiver is covered, well that's like transmitting and geiving feedback to nothing.
RQ's scanning ability uses the IR feedback to locate open spaces. The static beeping you here is his feedback from objects in front of him. The leds flashing are just in sync with his head movements to make it look cool and retro.
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February 22, 2008 11:26 AM
Thanks for the info BG.
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February 22, 2008 11:43 AM
Robo BG said: You will notice that if you only cover one eye nothing happens. Both eyes must be covered because if ...
Just making sure I'not missing your meaning.
I understand the first sentence quoted, because it's a two part system, and covering either part disables it. I'm not sure whether the next sentence was meant to state "both eyes do not have to be covered because if...." or whether you're trying to say something else about the need to cover both eyes. The rest of the original post was explaining why covering just one eye disables the ranging system.
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February 22, 2008 12:38 PM
I was just wondering about possibilities of changing things. Distance could be longer or shorter. Same as width for the field of view. I am not making any changes right now, but possibly after the warranty is up.
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March 15, 2008 7:17 PM
Are you trying to increase the range of view or the range inwhich you can control him from. I don't see the problem with his view of range as of now but the distance you have to control him might be an issue. So which is it?
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