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Re: Mechanical obstacle avoider
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Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:43:32 GMT
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You are awesome. I had read about this in some lego paper about gearboxes,
specifically shiftable ones. It said the problem was keeping the car in reverse
for a while instead of jittering back and forth.
Now I -really- want to get into the mechanichal logic lego gates thing
(http://goldfish.ikaruga.co.uk/logic.html), but in a design different from the
example (I think it'd be hard to amplify the signal after a few gates). Although
harder, it'd be neat to do it, like the site mentions, with rotation of an axle,
clockwise being a logic level and counterclockwise being the other.
Too bad these things take lots of legos...
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| Thanks Ignacio and Philo for the nice comments! I hadn't seen "Rock Stupid Rover" - very interesting. The idea of "mechanical computing" is fascinating. Some kind of signal amplification using a power source seems essential if one is to make complex (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| Everyone makes a Mindstorms robot that drives forward until it hits an obstacle, then reverses and turns for a short distance before resuming its forward motion. Here is a robot that does the same by 100% mechanical methods. It has only one motor, (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-05, to lugnet.technic)
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