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    Triangulating Location

    Its fine. Better to learn now then later. Now one more question. Say you had that camera system, or 4 basic cameras spread out in the 4 corners of your room. You then used some type of identifier for the "receiver", like a bright pink color, something that is uncommon. Then the camera looks for...
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    Alright, well how about this question. Radar guns use radio waves to find out how fast a car is moving, depending on the time it takes for the wave to return. Considering how accurate a number they get back, and occasionally from a distance of 500 meters, how is that possible?
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    A better way to put this is say you have an object that is 5,555 millimeters away. To find the distance, can you change the range of the transmission to see if it received? So using 10,000 millimeters, can't you break it up, for example : Range : 10,000 millimeters ------ Received 9,000...
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    Good point. Guess I missed that. One more idea, is it possible to change the range of the transmitter by altering the power applied? Or any way at all? If you reduced the range to say 25 and the receiver didn't pick it up, then the receiver is more than 25 meters away.
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    The problem of using timing to determine when the signal was transmitted is that I can't measure in numbers that are that small. For a 10 meter range, and lets use the speed in a vacuum since it is easier to use for now, that means that it will take about 1/3.0x10^7 seconds, which is very, very...
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    I'm sorry, but I'm confused on the use of a high speed camera in this situation. Finding the location using a camera seems like a common situation in, say, augmented reality programming using images on paper. This is a bit different. Would it be possible to consistently send out a signal, then...
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    Haha, well that's good to know, now it's time for the actual implementation. Research time! And thanks for the link poor mystic, I will give it a look soon.
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    Wouldn't it be possible using radio waves to measure how many times the tranceiver received the transmission per second, basically do a rebounding effect like poor mystic suggested. If an object is say 1 meter away, then it receives 300,000,000 transmissions a second. If it is 10 meters away...
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    What would be the issues with using sound, like duke said? Sound waves travel much slower, but vary depending on temperature and the material they travel through. As for rebounding through transceivers, that also seems doable.
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    Hey, thanks for the quick response. Sadly, my experience with code hasn't really helped me with this. The main problem is that radio waves transmit at about 300,000,000 meters per second, and I want to test in milimeters, or 300,000,000,000 mm per second. This is a bit to fast for a normal clock...
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    I am using 4 transmitters because as far as I know that is the best for 3 dimensional triangulation. All I want to do is access a objects position in a 3d space relative to the 4 transmitters. As for frequencies or clocks, that is something I haven't worked on. If you can't tell, I am actually a...
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    Triangulating Location

    Hey all, I am working on a new project where I need to get a position, basically in millimeters, using 4 transmitters and a receiver. Right now the problem that I am having is that to triangulate position there are two methods that I know, first off you can use signal strength (my preferred one)...
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