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Re: Fearing Lego
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lugnet.build, lugnet.technic
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Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:30:43 GMT
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dstaudt@STOPSPAMhotmail.com
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Excors wrote:
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> Greg Majewski <citrusx__@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:GA9prz.LH9@lugnet.com...
> > This may sound a little bit weird, but has anyone ever built anything that
> > they were actually afraid of? I think I have done just that:
> >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=37672
> >
> > The Spinning Wheel of Death. BattleBots affectionados might recognize this
> > as an Lego replica of Jim Smentowski's Nightmare's primary weapon. Here's • a
> > list of things the Lego version has done:
> > Drawn blood, and not just by scratching. I got an actual laceration with
> > this sucker.
> > Launched a 2x4 plate into oblivion. When the wheel came in contact with a
> > pile of pieces, a 2x4 went flying and I have not been able to find it. By • my
> > estimates it travelled a good five feet and probably would have gone a lot
> > farther if the wall had't stopped it. Searching is still going on and I • will
> > check to see if I damaged the piece.
> > I also tested this on a bookshelf because that was the sturdiest thing
> > handy. The books on the shelf all jumped with the impact, the shelf was
> > knocked off its bracket momentrily, but the wheel just stopped. No major
> > damage at all.
> > And lastly, this thing can saw through good solid cardboard without any
> > problems.
>
> I've been making a similar kind of thing for "Lego RoboWarriors" -- a
> competition between me and a few friends, like Robot Wars/BattleBots/etc but
> with Lego.
> My current robot, for the 10th war, has a very large and powerful
> horizontal spinning weapon using 4 motors with a 40:24 speed-increasing gear
> combination. The rotating part is made from two pieces of 90-degree monorail
> track in a "S" shape (not a disc), making it about 65cm (2ft) wide, and it
> spins at over 300rpm -- the ends travel at almost 40km/h!
> I can use it to launch 16x32 baseplates and bits of pirate ship hull
> across the room (and I even decapitated a Lego Technic man with one hit!) --
> I'm not sure how fast the Spinning Wheel of Death goes, but it looks fairly
> small and thin so it doesn't have as much mass or momentum as my version,
> and
> wouldn't be as effective against heavier objects.
> A few days ago I added another 2 monorail sections onto it, making it
> 128cm (over 4 foot) wide, but it was much slower and I decided to use the
> shorter version instead :-)
> The biggest problem with it is that if it's going full speed in one
> direction, then suddenly reverses, my robot spins around about 180 degrees!
> And I only had one motor left to drive with, so I was forced to use a slow,
> complicated combination of motor and pneumatics just so that I could turn...
> I 've uploaded a few pictures of it to
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3970, so have a look if
> you're interested.
>
> And I apologise if this message appears in HTML format -- I'm only using
> Outlook because my normal newsreader only works with one news server :-(
--
Daniel Staudt <dstaudt@hotmail.com>
Lugnet NUT #872
I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.
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