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From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred G Martin)
Subject: Re: Sensors Documentation
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In article <1992Sep5.020440.19866@unixg.ubc.ca> pdivine@unixg.ubc.ca
(Patrick Devine) writes:
>I downloaded and printed out the sensor.PS file at cher.media.mit.edu for
>sensor information on the miniboard (I beleive).  Is this a continuation
>of another document?  I noticed it says "Chapter 2.8" .. I've printed out
>the rest of the miniboard documentation and it's not the same document.

From my original posting announcing the sensor documentation:

>I have re-formatted and placed in the "pub/miniboard/docs" directory
>two excerpts from the "6.270 Robot Builder's Guide" that are relevant
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>to Mini Board projects:
>
>* The file "sensors.PS" illustrates how to build a variety of common
>  robotics sensors which are compatible with the Mini Board.
>
>* The file "chapter6.PS.Z" is a link to the Chapter 6 from the Builder's
>  Guide, which describes the theory of operation of the sensors
>  illustrated in the previous pages.  (Note that this file is stored in
>  binary compressed form, using Unix compress, so it must be transferred
>  using FTP binary mode.)

The document mentioned, the "6.270 Robot Builder's Guide", is the
course notebook I wrote for MIT's LEGO Robot Design Competition.  Some
of you comp.robotics readers may find it interesting.  It's on-line
our server in "pub/6270/docs".  You will need a fair bit of time on
your PostScript printer to print it out (it's 250 pages long).

	- Fred
