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Tue, 07 Feb 2006
some preliminary photos and updated design notes

We're getting ready to lay out the production version of the SRV-1 controller circuit board, and need to do some last testing of the additiions.

Here's a version of the SRV-1 with 3 more IR emitters attached to a flying protoboard, so there are now a total of 4 emitters and 4 detectors.



We added small light shields around the IR emitters to filter out the light that was leaking out the back of the LED cases and directly into the IR detectors. Though the main purpose of the IR components is beacon detection and inter-robot communication, they work pretty well as proximity detectors, with a nominal range of 25-30cm (as long as the detectors aren't getting clobbered by stray light emission from the emitters, ergo the light shields).

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