Archive for January, 2009

yodimus asked:


I want to buy a Bushnell Range Finder and send it to my father who is on vacation in Hawaii. I want to know if I can order it through Amazon and deliver it to the hotel. Thank you.

Keneth

fange5 asked:


My friend keeps making fun of me playing golf because he say's its an old man sport. How do i get him to learn how hard it is to play it he thinks its very easy to play. He even told me he thinks its stupid they get paid by just hitting a ball. He also wont play golf so he has no idea.

Matthew

svchiefs19 asked:


i was looking at the Bushnell medalist rangefinder and it says that it has pin seeking technology. that got me wondering, (ive never used a range finder before) what do you aim at to find the distance to the hole?

say your 150 yards out. do u shoot the laser at the hole itself (or the ground right next to the hole), at the actual stick/pin the goes in the hole, or at the flag? id imagine the pin seeking technology would mean youd shoot at the pin itself, but the pin is awfully thin. can the rangefinder really pick up the pin thats only an inch thick?

Jerold

Chris G asked:


the range finder can be found here-(sliver model)

http://www.laserlinkgolf.com/

Jewell

ccnice1 asked:


I have a Lorance X-48 (7 yrs old). I'm looking to upgrade and get some bang for my buck. Budget in the $500 range. One question I have is to maybe buy a underwater camera and a fishfinder separately.

Buster

palmisano asked:

Created in May of 2004, my goal of this project was to build a robot that can do realtime 2D mapping accurately while going insanely fast.

It uses two Sharp IR rangefinders on a scanning servo to generate a 2D map using a PIC16F877.

In the last scene, you will hear the really loud DC motors on the treaded chassis. I didnt realize it at the time, but the reason it kept spinning clockwise was because a sensor had a loose connection making it work only sometimes. Despite the bad sensor data, it still had zero collisions!

Want to learn more about how to make a robot? Visit http://www.societyofrobots.com

Or more about 2D mapping with rangefinders?

http://www.societyofrobots.com/sensors_sharpirrange.shtml

(scroll down to Range Finder Basic 2D Mapping)

Donnie