Announcing new commercial IR Seeker sensor for Spike Prime and other Robots

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A Perfect RoboCup Soccer Sensor for Spike Prime

We are excited to announce the launch of our new product - QikEasy IR Seeker, the perfect RoboCup Jr IR soccer sensor designed to work with both Spike Prime and non-LEGO robotic systems.

Drawing on our previous experience in creating Spike Prime add-on devices, QikEasy IR Seeker outperforms competing products on the market:

  • Remarkably accurate in detecting the direction of the IR Ball
  • Exceptionally stable that it never crashes
  • Most budget-friendly sensor on the market

QikEasy IR Seeker will free your teams from the details of the IR Sensor implementation, and let them focus on the more important soccer play strategies.

QikEasy IR Seeker is now available on crowdfunding website Indiegogo, with Early Bird Pricing till October 25 starting from as low as US$75: https://igg.me/at/irseeker

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For anyone looking for IR sensor this is also option:

It is opensource, super precise, it has I2C,CAN and analogue interface and it has 360 degrees detection range. Also you can build it your self or buy it for only 28.96EUR instead of 114,81 EUR

also other opensource designs and approaches to IR ball detection from other teams from previous years can be found here:
https://github.com/robocup-junior/awesome-rcj-soccer

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Our IR Seeker product is now available for immediate shipping. It works great on LEGO Spike Prime as well as other i2c robots.

We achieve superior accuracy in our product through these secret sauces:

  • we use IR receivers with filter for 40KHz carrier, not 38KHz.
  • our firmware collects signal strength data digitally by measuring IR Receiver pulse widths and applies running averages to smooth out undesirable signal fluctuations.
  • our IR receivers are pre-matched through our proprietary calibration process. This ensures that the 5 IR Receivers on each IR Seeker board return approximately the same values for IR signals of same intensity.
  • the specially designed enclosure is optically optimized to allow QikEasy IR Seeker to offer the most accurate directional results.

Here’s a project video that demonstrates our product: