Showing posts with label Line. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Line. Show all posts

Monday, October 27, 2014

Know the Line Follower Robot

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Line Follower Robot Glance - Line Follower Robot- a kind of robot which included into the category robotmobile are designed to work in an autonomous and have the ability to detect and move to follow (follows) the existing line on the surface. Control system used is designed to feel that there are pathways of movement and maneuver in order to remain able to follow that line. Robots of this type quite a lot of interest for those who are just learning to robot technology. Even competitions Line Follower Robot, often held regularly at various universities .In industry, robots of this type is often used to to move goods from one place to another. By modifying slightly the sensor line follower robot can then be developed into a Wall Follower Robot, a robot that can move around the wall.



Sensor On Line Follower Robot Sensors, can be analogous to the eye of a robot that serves to read the black line of the track robot. So that the robot is able to know when he will turn right, when he turned left and when he stopped. The sensor used is a light sensor mounted below the front of the robot, so as to find a bright line of a dark background or vice versa. Sensors used are usually photo reflector, R LD (Light Dependent Resistor), Photo Diodes and Photo Transistor - mounted on the front two or more under robotline follower. There also are using the camera as a sensor (or image sensor) to a higher-resolution readout line, making more accurate robot motion.

The working principle of the sensor is simple, when the transmitter (infrared) emitting light onto a white field, the light will be reflected almost entirely by the white areas. In contrast, Itter m ans when emit light to dark or black areas, then the light will be absorbed by the dark areas, so that incoming light kereceiver low. To be able to read by the microcontroller, the sensor voltage should be adjusted to TTL voltage level that is 0-1 volts for logic 0 and 3-5 volts for logic 1. This can be done by installing the operational amplifier is used as a comparator.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Phone Line Polarity Checker

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Do you suspect your broadband speed (DSL) is slower than it should be? It could be as simple as incorrect polarity in your phone wall socket. Build this very cheap, very simple device to find out whether you need to change your wiring!

It might not seem that telephone line polarity is important, since the ring and voice signals sent over telephone lines are AC. However the lines are actually biased to 48V DC (less when in use) and so the polarity can matter. The main problem with incorrect polarity is that some DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) modems and routers can perform poorly in this circumstance. Since telephone wires are color-coded, it should be possible to simply check that the sockets are wired correctly. Unfortunately, there are multiple wiring colour schemes and they have changed over time. Believe it or not, the old color scheme (from around 15 years ago) is identical to the current colour scheme except that the polarity of both lines is reversed! This is why so many homes have this problem and yours may well be one of them.

PhoneThe common telephone line is simply a copper pair, ie, two wires. As mentioned, there is usually a 48V DC bias across the pair which drops to around 8V when a telephone is “off-hook”. The ring voltage (around 90V AC) and the audio signal voltage (also AC) are overlaid on this DC bias. The DC power is “rectified” by each telephone on that line to run its own circuitry. Note, though, that this does not include cordless phones which usually use a plugpack, as their power requirements are far in excess of what the telephone line can deliver. (As an aside, that is the reason it is important to keep a line-powered telephone in your home so you can still make and receive calls if the mains power goes out.

PhoneTelephone exchanges can usually supply power from their backup batteries for up to some days, even if they are blacked out). Usually, telephone lines are run with 4-core cable. This allows up to two lines on the one cable. The first line is on the inner pair (pins 2 and 3) and the second line, if present, is on the outer pair (pins 1 and 4). Modern telephones use modular plugs, specifically RJ11 (6P2C, one line), RJ14 (6P4C, one or two lines) or RJ25 (6P6C, 1-3 lines). By the way, 6P4C stands for “six pins, four connectors”. Incidentally, “RJ12” connectors are physically compatible – and commonly available – so that is what we have used in this project.

PhoneBecause modern phones rectify the DC voltage from the telephone lines before regulating it and because the ring and voice signals are AC, for voice communications the polarity doesn’t really matter.
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