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Unread 21-02-2008, 10:56
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Re: Super IR

Im sure you all already know but with the standard ir board if it receives ANY stray ir from any remote no matter what button was pressed on the other remote or how it was programmed it will stop and do nothing until the air is clear and it receives the one (of four) signal it was looking for.

For trams still using the standard ir board I would suggest some kind of shield that only allows ir to come from the Robocoach corner that you plan to stand in. Our team has an ir resistant cone mounted on a servo using the gyro angle to always point at our robocoach station to try to get a clearer signal.(but we don’t know how well it will work until we try it in the real competition.)

We played with signal modulation and even tryed sonar but we were not able to get a better signal out of anything we tried and ended up resorting back to the origonal ir board.
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