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| | | There's a message in the "announcements" forum on www.legomindstorms.com asking if any adult Mindstorms users from the Washington, D.C. area want to be interviewed by Swiss TV. It's dated Feb. 1, 1999. -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | | | | Re: Mindstorms announcement —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) [widening the scope of this to lugnet.robotics & lugnet.loc.us.dc] --Todd (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.dc)
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| | | | | | Turrets for Robowars —Rich Thompson
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| | | | Thinking about Robowars, I expanded on the idea a bit to include all out warfare with multiple robots in teams. I put together a quick guard turret that spins, tracks direction, and fires missiles from the cyber slam cannons. Perfect to guard your (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Turrets for Robowars —Chris Magno
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| | | | Rich: this looked real nice. I thought I was the only person melding the cyber cannon and the mindstorms. my first "trick' was to place all 4 in a line, then run a "camshaft" over the firing mech.. it was fun to watch them fire in sequence. then I (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | RE: Turrets for Robowars —Rich Thompson
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| | | | | Thanks...now if I can can just figure out a trigger mechanism for the throwbot arm.... Rich (URL) Message----- From: news@lugnet.com [mailto:news@lugnet.com]On Behalf Of Chris Magno Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 8:29 PM To: (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: Turrets for Robowars —Joe Greene
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| | | | | | That's Easy..Run an axle with a cam out to just short of the arm's length.the cam will push the arm back (cocking it) and theas it finishes it's turn it will release, totally free to swing... (...) Joe Greene Technical Support OpenDisc Systems, Inc. (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Turrets for Robowars —Karim Nassar
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| | | | (...) I thought of a really cool application for a Solarvane... using two light sensors, and building a sort of shade like so: ---++--- || ^^||^^ LS||LS ----++---- What happens is, if the turret is aimed directly at a light source, both light (...) (26 years ago, 5-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Turrets for Robowars —Joe Greene
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| | | | Use the slip gear for the steering use a wheel based model. When steering hits limits clutch slips, Turret turns..then you just need a centering algortihm ro return turret and steering to center, or use same theory eccept that the oversteer (...) (26 years ago, 5-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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