Troy
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[EDIT] In this thread, there may be broken links as time goes on. The purpose of the posts is to give members ideas to build on and be a repository for other people to add to as well. Happy building! Oh, let me add that I have no affliation to any seller or company. Always check out your suppliers before handing over your hard earned cash.
Well its new to me. I can see it now. "Dave, there seems to be an approaching storm. It's time to stop our soccer game and get inside"
eBay Link, Datasheet Link
Franklin Lightning Sensor provides early warning indication of lightning storm activity within a 40km range
- Provides distance estimation to the head of the storm
- Detects both cloud-to-ground and intra-cloud (cloud-to-cloud) ashes
- Intelligent algorithm provides for false disturber rejection
- Programmable detection levels enable threshold setting for optimal con gurability
- SPI and I2C interface is used for control and register reading
- Automatic antenna tuning
- Supply voltage range 2.4 to 5.5V
- Power-down, listening and active mode
Here is another one for motion detection for up to 20 meters. eek Microwave Doppler Radar Motion Sensor
Edit: see post #6 for better one.
UPDATE: Here is another lightning detector that popped up. eBay Link
I confess. I don't know how this can be implemented in our robots but it is too cool of an idea. Scio Molecular Sensor
The Scio is really cool. With ez-robots ability to be wifi connected and store data in a database, this really would be an amazing addition to a robot project. Thanks for sharing Troy!
I am somewhat skeptical of SCiO. I'll wait until they are actually shipping next year and I see some independent reviews. I would love to have a device that could tell me when fruit is ripe or starting to rot by "sniffing" the molecules it emits (and any number of other cool functions), and I think we are within a few years of that kind of technology being available, I am just not sure that SCiO has actually developed it.
Alan
wow, this is just like the tricorder spock used in Star Trek
Yeah I was skeptical but since they say that have a working prototype and all that money from kickstarter it may actually come to the market. It's a neat idea regardless.
Here is a new one. BioTac
Don't think I have seen this module on the forum yet. It might be useful to make a robot with voice recognition in hardware on the robot. Perhaps useful for robots controlled by mobile apps. Not near as powerful as ARC voice recog, when connected to a PC but might be interesting.
http://www.elechouse.com/elechouse/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=&products_id=2151
The technology of the SCiO is based on light the science for it has been around for over 100 years now and its how we know what stars are made of and because its works with light the SCiO would only react to the surface of an object its light is reflecting off.
Its a cool little Spectrometer
I would LOVE to have one