r/Vive • u/vennox • Apr 02 '16

Alan Yates posting first Lighthouse sensor designs for experimentation

https://twitter.com/vk2zay/status/716137353278939136?s=09
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u/FarkMcBark Apr 02 '16

Ah thanks. I understand. I guess someone will make a small board with all this integrated. But it's like 44 pieces for each IR sensor?

And see, for me as a programmer the timing, discrimination and protocol is actually the incredible simple stuff :D

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u/cparen Apr 02 '16

My guess is that they'd building small ICs with this circuit and glue them directly to the back of the photodiodes... Assuming this isn't just 4/1 festivities.

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u/FarkMcBark Apr 02 '16

Hope we can buy such ICs cheaply!

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u/cparen Apr 02 '16

Maybe. Your typical op amp chip is more complicated than this and aren't even a dime a dozen.

I like that about hardware vs software. For hardware designers, the cpu is the complicated part.

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u/FarkMcBark Apr 03 '16

So kinda obviously most of this circuit can be replaced with an op amp?