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Originally Posted by phrontist

Sure you could use it! It's from the same manufacturer as all the other chips, but I don't see a datasheet for it on their site linked above. I don't think this is possible though, because you'd need to illuminate a huge area by laser standards. It's easy to illuminate a 5mm by 5mm patch, but try 6 by 6 centimeters.

UPDATE: You're in germany? I wasn't aware that there was a team there yet... that's uber cool.

Hmm I'm not in Germany right now, I'm doing an exchange year in Atlanta, Ga right now and joined their robotics club their since I like programming a lot and it's not every day you can play around with plc's and all that stuff : ). But as far as I think Germany has one or two teams, too but I'm not quiete sure about that since thats just what somebody told me o_O.

My Highschool is competing for the first team this year but we got some good suport/sponsoring on our site so I hope we can get a decent robot together : ).

Youl'll probably hear more from me in the next team since I'll probably have some questions (especally regarding programming/etc. soon). I just had a look at the default code from 2004 so far and no chances to trie anything out but it didn't seem horrible difficult to me (at least the standard functions/etc.). We'll probably have a little Testrobot for the club from tomorrow on which has the same chip so I can start playing around with it, which will probably cause the first question soon (or may not, if it's googleable : ) ...

Ok bye guys,

Felix "the_undefined" Geisendörfer