Re: [mowbot] Colour sensor
Monta Elkins (Monta nospam at vt.edu)
Tue, 05 Nov 1996 12:56:24 -0500
robin nospam at acm.org wrote:
>
> I have done some simple and successful experiments to detect the
> colours of objects using just some LEDs and a light-dependant resistor.
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> Detecting colour sounds like it will be useful for all sorts of things.
> Since everything that needs cutting is in the green/yellow part of
> the spectrum, and most things that don't need cutting aren't, it should
> provide a pretty good boundary detector that requires no training.
Sounds, ingenious, simple and useful.
What distances have you tried;
a few (6?) centimeters should be enough.
-Monta Elkins
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