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Originally Posted by Rickertsen2
Mount the sensors such the the "eye" end faces toward the ceiling. Above that you have a scannign mirror at a 45degree angle rapidly spun by one of the other motors, with an absolute position encoder for position feedback of the mirror. Tell me if i am crazy.
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OK! you are crazy!
this is an excellect idea. part of the difficulty with the Kevin design for the sensor is that it uses 4 valuable inputs on the controller.
a single sensor looking at the mirror uses only a single input for the IR pulse and a single input for the encoder.
our team has only 2 inputs left, so this would solve our problem.
of course the software becomes more intense, since we would be sampling both beacons.
the enclosure for the mirror would act as the shield for stray reflections. it might look like a flying saucer, with an opening all the way round.
thanks for the good idea!
i guess its ok to be crazy.
Jerry w