Archive for November 30th, 2005

Laser is Better

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Elliot Lee
on 11/30/2005
in Geek Stuff, Ideas and Questions
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I was walking down the hall listening to my inkjet printer cranking away, and a peculiar thought struck me. LASERs are astounding (LASER = Light Amplification Of Stimulated Emission Of Radiation, I looked it up, didn’t memorize it). Really. Think about this for a moment.

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Robots, Math, phpBB Star, MP3 Shack, Pete, Ishwar, Essays

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Elliot Lee
on 11/30/2005
in Forums, Midnight Messages, USC and Work
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[MM] I woke this morning in time to finish my Calculus homework before going to EE 106 to work with Michael O. on our robot. We’re supposed to make it run through an obstacle course, but the IR detectors see too far. We need to somehow make it more nearsighted. Otherwise, we can’t detect small gaps in walls. Perhaps there’s a bug in our code: thinking back on it, the sensors seemed to be more sensitive before. Yet there was always a problem with close accuracy. I brought the robot back to the dorm to work on; let’s hope we do before the last class session (Thursday).

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