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Unread 27-04-2006, 23:46
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Re: Maxbotix Sonar Sensor

This is one sensor I've been looking at experimenting with in the off season. Possibly the best sonar sensor I've found so far, and the only with an analog input (thank god, I was worried if I wanted to use sonar next year that we might run out of interrupt ports real fast between it and encoders).

Are there any long range (really long range, enough to rival a sonar sensor) IR sensors out there? All I can ever find are Sharp, and though good the best of those is limited to around 6'.

My one worry is if sonar continues to grow in popularity. We're going to start running into problems of messing up each other's sensors, and it'll be interesting to see how we can get around that.