Just testing. I haven't received anything from the list since 28 December. ... "What the detractors and critics of electric vehicles have been saying for...
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Randy Carter
randycarter2001
Jan 3, 2010 3:38 pm
Just testing. I haven't received anything from the list since 28 December. I had recent problems with bouncing e-mails from Yahoo Groups. ... "What the...
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Steve Kozachik
steve_kozachik
Jan 3, 2010 5:25 pm
Randy  Got your post, it appeared twice.  I think someone got into Yahoo with a worm. Last email I opened from an SRS member released a nasty worm that...
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Dave Hylands
dhylands_99
Jan 3, 2010 5:28 pm
There were two posts on the 29th and one on the 30th, all about bunnybot ... -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/...
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Randy Carter
randycarter2001
Jan 3, 2010 6:51 pm
Yahoo keeps track of message bounces and if certain conditions are met they stop sending messages. You will then be required to go to the site and reactivate...
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Fenchurch
fenagogue
Jan 4, 2010 7:47 pm
Wow we had so much happening in our weekly Monday night chats during 2009, can't wait to see what gets contributed during 2010. Richard I hear the Freenode has...
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filipedsbraga
Jan 6, 2010 11:02 pm
Hey guys, I found this Yahoo Group search Google. I found great topics but I really didn't find what I was looking. I have a project at school witch consists...
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Erik Knise
elknise@...
Jan 6, 2010 11:09 pm
Ultrasonic or IR "distance"; sensors will tell you if something is parked there. A motion detector just monitors a distance sensor for change. It would read...
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Douglas Treadwell
epicureanideal
Jan 7, 2010 6:35 am
I assume there might be some overlap between robotics enthusiasts and supporters of human life extension. If I'm correct, you might be interested to check out...
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Giacomo "Deffie&...
sylkrope
Jan 8, 2010 9:22 am
Hello everyone, I'm making a gas burner, actually i'm using a stepper motor to drive gas valve with an encoder made by a multiturn potentiometer connected to...
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don clay
dwc309
Jan 8, 2010 1:12 pm
There's a part from Melexis, MLX90614, that will do the trick. It has an I2C/PWM interface. To: SeattleRobotics@yahoogroups.com From:...
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Filipe Braga
filipedsbraga
Jan 8, 2010 4:36 pm
Hey Erik, thanks for replying! The spot is about 600 ft away from the guard shack. I'm planing on doing the connections by wire since I don't have much...
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Erik Knise
elknise@...
Jan 8, 2010 5:32 pm
If you are able to do it by wire, it would definitely be cheaper and easier to implement. How do you plan on turning off the alarm? One idea could be to have...
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Robert Crichton
parnslayer
Jan 8, 2010 6:32 pm
There are several ways to approach this. An IR or ultrasonic distance sensor could be used, with a microcontroller to read the distance measurement and toggle...
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Alan Marconett
km6vv
Jan 8, 2010 7:27 pm
How about a Pryo detector? Eltec 442-3 Pryo detector TPA81 Thermopile R67-UVTRON UV sensor Alan KM6VV...
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Filipe Braga
filipedsbraga
Jan 8, 2010 8:42 pm
Hi again Erik. Well, since it is a high school project I didn't have in mind building something so sophisticated, so this is what I had in mind: - I would have...
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Filipe Braga
filipedsbraga
Jan 8, 2010 8:42 pm
Hi Robert, thank you also replying. I have thought on having two IR sensors, one on each side, but at the disable spot we have here there isn't much room for...
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Kevin Ross
kevinwross
Jan 8, 2010 10:47 pm
You need to consider a couple of additional things: 1) What are you trying to detect? What properties of what you are detecting are unique to it? If you are...
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Peter Balch
peterbalch@...
Jan 10, 2010 1:06 am
Filipe ... Don't confuse PIR sensors (which detect the warmth of a moving person) with IR distance sensors (which work a little like radar). ... First get it...
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oric_dan
Jan 10, 2010 2:52 am
I have a lot of PDF files on robotics research and other topics, stored on HD and CDROM. I would like to be able to search through a directory containing say...
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David Buckley
robots42
Jan 10, 2010 4:39 am
Well I hope someone comes up with something that is as easy to use and as fast as flicking through the pages of a book. We know from Google that indexing is...
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Giacomo "Deffie&...
sylkrope
Jan 10, 2010 8:26 am
... Hi Filipe, a parenthesis about sensor, its common practice to use metal detectors in parking spots, you may be able to find something already packed and ...
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Filipe Braga
filipedsbraga
Jan 10, 2010 11:47 am
Hi Peter, Thank you for your comments. I had some doubts on the PIR sensors and the IR distance, I had seen both before and they were refereed as IR sensor,...
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Peter Balch
peterbalch@...
Jan 10, 2010 2:26 pm
Dan ... Doesn't Google Desktop do that? It won't produce a title-list - which would be very nice - but it's free and works well with all sorts of files. Peter...
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oric_dan
Jan 10, 2010 4:50 pm
... Oy. I have maybe 20 CDROMs of pdf files, and I thought I was bad. In some ways, high-BW access is a bane. Thanks for the bad news about Wysigot....
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oric_dan
Jan 10, 2010 4:56 pm
... Thanks for the pointer. I wasn't aware of it, but am checking it out. http://desktop.google.com/features.html However, I don't really need my entire HD...
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oric_dan
Jan 10, 2010 5:18 pm
This was mentioned on DPRG. Other than the fact that anything that looks even remotely like Robin Williams scares the heck out of me [cf, "uncanny valley"],...
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don clay
dwc309
Jan 10, 2010 5:57 pm
Dan, Why don't you take your newly acquired .net skills & write your own program to do that. Maybe there's enough consistent info to direct you to the title,...
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oric_dan
Jan 10, 2010 6:35 pm
... Hope springs eternal that one needn't have to reinvent the wheel for every desire....
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don clay
dwc309
Jan 10, 2010 7:48 pm
Think of it as an intellectual challenge. <g> From: Dan...
