Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Path: brunix!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!weisee
From: weisee@aix.rpi.edu (Elizabeth A. Weise)
Subject: Re: Fluxgate compass
Message-ID: <pwgxncm@rpi.edu>
Nntp-Posting-Host: aix.rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
References: <l53rt7INNhbk@news.bbn.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 01:07:20 GMT
Lines: 20

In article <l53rt7INNhbk@news.bbn.com> koolish@BBN.COM (Richard M. Koolish) writes:
>
>Has anybody had any experience with any kind of machine readable compass?
>I want to know in what direction my computer is headed.  I'm looking for
>pointers to fluxgate compasses and any experiences that people might have
>had with them.

I found that Radio Shack was discontinuing their automotive compass, which
uses fluxgate technology. Not worth $50 as a toy, but for the $30 or so
closeout price, I found the last two in about 5 stores around me... one for
a guy at work. Looks like it shouldn't take much more effort to make it
interfacable, and I think I've heard about an article in Radio Electronics
describing how to do that, though I haven't seen the article.

-- tom moeller, under the guise of
-- 
****************************************************************************
Beth Weise / PhD Student / Dept. of Language, Literature, & Communication
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Troy, New York
Weisee@rpi.edu / Beth_Weise@mts.rpi.edu
