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Re: new Mindstorms servos?
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:09:49 GMT
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> Another insteresting detail on the RoboArm picture is that the
> builder placed a handle on one side of the motor down on the
> base of the robot. I wonder if the intention is to use the
> rotation sensor in the motor to sense the winding of that handle?
From the picture, that is connected as an input, and the video posted
by Yann shows this rotating under NXT control.
It looks to me like it can be EITHER a rotation sensor or motor, but not
both....
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| (...) I spotted somewhere a mention of closed-loop controllers, which would mean that the motor *is* the rotation sensor. I expect the handle was installed to make it easier to manually adjust and test the mechanism and that the rotation sensing (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Dunno - I think it's *WAY* different. It's almost as if it were DESIGNED for making the robots that are in all the photos. It looks quite inconvenient for building wheeled or tracked vehicles because of how the drive shaft exits at right (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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