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Which kind of sensors should I use to mimic a reference? [closed]

My project for this summer will be to make a robot arm that does a 1:1 mimic of one of my own arms. I'm at the very beginning stages of design and am conceptualizing what it will be and how I will ...
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Building block components for robot sensors and controllers

I'm planning on building a robot using Microchip PIC 16-bit MCUs, which I'm familiar with, and for which I have supporting hardware (demo boards, programmer, debugger, etc). After spending hours ...
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Indoors-vs-outdoors sensor

What a near-perfect-accuracy yet dirt-cheap way for a drone or other miniature embedded computer to sense whether it's indoors vs outdoors? Some ideas: Geo position sensor if small, low power, and ...
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Wiring a capacitive touch sensor to the Arduino?

I have just recently bought a few different ic's from Mouser.com, not thinking i never even looked to see if i could use them. I Wound up getting a few Azoteq IQS128 capacitive touch sensors, but I ...
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Multiple Ultrasonic Rangefinder Question

I've been doing some research on ultrasonic range finders as sensors for robotics. I've seen them being attached to servos and pivoted to effectively "look" in front of the robot and make sure the ...
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Distance range of a Color Sensor?

I would like to know what is the usual range of a color sensor ? Can it detect a light source from a few meters away ? for example, if I want to use a color sensor to detect a particular LED 1 meter ...
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Underwater Distance Sensing

I'm looking to measure distances from a submersed robotics project in the range of 1 to 20 feet (around there at least). However, the only options I seem to come across are rather heavy sonar modules ...
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Best Electronics and Robotics Resources for a Novice

I know guys hanging around here are quite experienced in electronics and robotics. But I am rather new to this area. I have only A/L physics knowledge in electronics. But I am working as a software ...
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Interfacing Vernier equipment and microcontrollers

I am the president of my high school's robotics club. We own several VeX robot kits which we have been using for a few years now. The physics department also owns several Vernier LabPro sonic ...
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How accurate are altimeters?

I'm building a quadrocopter and would like to prevent drift using a down facing camera. To do this properly, I need to get the height of the drone from the ground. Obviously the ground can vary, so ...
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Stopping drift in hovering quadrocopter

I will be building a 4 propeller quadrocopter drone at some point. I want to make it relatively easy to fly by getting it to hover still when the controls are not touched. Can someone offer some ...
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Robot picking a person from other objects

I need some ideas of sensors to use so my tank can drive towards humans and seek them out. Distinguishing them from the background. Assume the human is standing still / quitely Any ideas? looking ...