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Measuring Distance With the EOPD

NXT EOPDGus Jansson of HiTechnic has written a nice article on how to use the HiTechnic EOPD sensor as a distance measuring sensor. 

Ever wanted to know why the response of the EOPD is not linear? Gus does a great job of explaining it and how to calibrate your EOPD to give you maximum accuracy.

Go check it out: [LINK].

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Xander Soldaat is a Software Engineer and former Infrastructure Architect. He loves building and programming robots. He recently had the opportunity to turn his robotics hobby into his profession and has started working for Robomatter, the makers of ROBOTC and Robot Virtual Words.