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Re: new (to me) use for worms
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lugnet.build
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Mon, 21 Jun 1999 23:28:50 GMT
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G. Benedikt Rochow wrote in message ...
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> I recently noticed that the fact that worm gears slide
> freely on an axle, which I've just regarded as slightly odd,
> can actually be of some use; to my knowledge, it's the only
> part that does so while being rotationally locked to the
> axle.
I had never noticed this either, until I saw a web site by Michael
Powell, who shows how to use the direction of rotation of a single motor to
select between driving two different axels:
http://www.sonic.net/~rci/transmission.htm
I have employed variations on this mechanism to build robot arms with
Mindstorms when I only had one motor output available. Careful study of
this ingenious design may give you some other ideas on how to exploit the
worm gear's "slither" effect.
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