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A few years ago I made a 2d line scanner using a webcam and a laser. It worked pretty well but two major improvements needed were the addition of a line laser as opposed to a dot and using a camera with a higher framerate. For version 2 of this project I went with the…
The breadboard fits in sideways pretty well. The earlier version on the robot (ted gave me his) doesn’t have enough space to slide in the breadboard with the rangefinder attached. The updated version has enough space to slide the breadboard in and out with the rangefinder attached which would save the hassle of plugging it…
2mm slots Kevin mentioned that the slots are currently 2mm and this might be too tight a fit. After putting it together it seems that another mil or two is needed to avoid the fraying as seen in the below image: The tight fit means quite a bit of force needs to be applied to…
Needed an 11 bit PRBS (Pseudo Random Binary Sequence) for use in a project. After some searching online, I came across this sweet wikipedia article on Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs). This article includes some sample C code to generate a PRBS sequence so I modified this code to generate a sequence that is 2048…