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| does anyone know where to get a small caster? The smallest one I've found is one with a 1.25 inch wheel. I want a really small one like 3/8 inch load hight. I know that's kinda small but otherwise, I'll settle for the smallest I can get my hands on. (...) (27 years ago, 26-Sep-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) The Lego motors are sized such that they can be "pinned" to the frame of a Lego robot easily. With a horizontal beam beneath the motor and another across the top, a pair of six-unit beams can be pinned vertically to the horizontal beams using (...) (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi Greg, I have been using LEGO 9v motors for a few years and I am very pleased with the results. I run freshman and sophomore engineering design and computer science courses using LEGO kits and HB's. The motors are well worth the price if you are (...) (27 years ago, 13-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| What has been people's experience in using the Lego 9V motors with the Handyboard? I know they're overpriced, but they are easy to use... We've used small RC car motors etc. in our Lego robot course in past years, but some students have been looking (...) (27 years ago, 13-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| I am a highschool intern trying to build a lego robot which models a housepet using the handy board. My task involves the robot sensing a "doorbell" and moving towards the sound. I will need to use microphones to accomplish this and I am wondering (...) (27 years ago, 12-Nov-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Lego 9V motors work well?
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| In article <v03007807b10a2f11bb...4.217.7]>, Greg Starr <starr@unm.edu> writes (...) I've used lego motors and have found them much better than other motors i have tried for torque. The ease of integrating them into lego buggies is obviously a major (...) (27 years ago, 13-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) I would be interested to hear about this too please. We are running a Group Design Exercise (our own version of a Lego robot competition). Designing the staff entry (to check the idea was feasible in the short time alloctated to the exercise) (...) (27 years ago, 17-Nov-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi Scott (& everyone), Yes, two days ago the LEGO company officially launched "LEGO Mindstorms," which is a new brand and product line inspired by the MIT Programmable Brick research. Scott -- thanks for noticing, and digging up the URL (URL). I am (...) (27 years ago, 29-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| [Greg Starr] spake unto the ether: (...) Performance-wise, they are okay (i.e., they are powerful enough). I don't like the short axle they have on them, though (compared to e.g. a Mabuchi motor with a LEGO 2x drilled axle Super-Glued onto the motor (...) (27 years ago, 13-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| This isn't really a question about the Handyboard, but I thought that this would be the best place to ask. I have many motors that came with my Handyboard kit (from Gleason Research), but I want to use them with the Lego kits. Is there an easy way (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Everyone is complaining about the price of LEGO motors. There is a new product, a gear reduction motor, that is a great value. It is a super efficient DC motor with a built in gearbox that can be used for direct drive, or with one stage of gear (...) (27 years ago, 13-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Contact Lego Shop At Home 1-800-453-4652 They are Enfield Ct, and as a matter of fact, I just received thier product catalogs, took less then 3 days to get them.. (...) that manufactature this (...) (26 years ago, 9-May-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi, Penn State Abington College (Abington, PA; Phila area) will be hosting the 3rd annual "Robo-Hoops" autonomous robot contest on Sunday, Dec 7, 1997 (1-3pm). Robots must pick-up and dunk or shoot Nerf balls (4" diam) into a net positioned 12" (...) (27 years ago, 3-Dec-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| i have a motor that is manufactured by lego, and has a 4 pin connector which is in the shape of a lego block. i am new to lego robots, so i do not know what the various parts look like exactly. the motor that i have is about 1.25" cube, and seems to (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| I'm curious how you went about securing the motors to your robots. I picked up a couple yesterday, and they do seem to be very good quality motors, but just sticking them on "the LEGO way" doesn't work too well. They keep ripping themselves loose (...) (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | LEGO BASIC To Become LEGO CLASSIC
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| New LEGO BASIC sets are to be launched as LEGO CLASSIC in the Americas in 1999. Currently there are 15 new LEGO BASIC sets available. LEGO SYSTEM Freestyle has been discontinued. Prices range from approximately $3.50 to $65 USD. There are 20 percent (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| Hello folks, Is it normal to get invalid 'active' signals from the analog inputs every so often? I have made a lego buggy which seeks out its way from a darkish room into another room and to a window using a light sensor mounted on a sweeping servo (...) (27 years ago, 29-Dec-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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