Chillout Zone
Let's Make Robots!
Home » Forums » The 4 elements » Electronics

hacking the digital Sharp IR sensor

Forum topic
By maneuver

October 24, 2008
maneuver's picture

Check out this link, Ladyada bought a digital IR sensor by accident, and found a way to turn it into a analog one. Clever!

And an interesting aspect is that the D version is often cheaper than the A versions.

http://www.ladyada.net/rant/2008/10/quick-tip-analog-signal-from-a-digital-distance-sensor/

 

‹ Sharp again - part numbers confuse me Live video streaming for remotely operated robots, solutions? ›

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
By rik
@ Sun, 2009-04-05 13:26
rik's picture

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2008/10/14/quick-tip-analog-signal-from-a-digital-distance-sensor/

d2asharp1.jpg

By rik
@ Fri, 2008-10-24 13:18
rik's picture

Wow!

And: please save this hack for future reference in one of the exitsting (or a new) component page.

8ik

By fritsl
@ Fri, 2008-10-24 20:43
fritsl's picture
And: Please note that user-posted components can be edited by everybody - wiki-style!