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Subject: 
Re: rtl10 is SUPER FUN!
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Date: 
Sat, 5 Jan 2002 03:41:10 GMT
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"Chris Magno" <cmagno@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:3C36726C.D21C7FBC@rogers.com...
> > "forget it, I'm
> > going to do the exact oposite." This robot isn't going to be the • fastest,
> > but it is big.
> 
> Ummm,  Iain, this is what I have been saying all along!!!!
> 
> why try to make it light, when you can just add more motors!!!!
> 
> i use 4 motors just to move the main X axis.  as long as the rcx powered
> I've had NO problems.
> 
> 
> ALSO on another subject:
> 
> IAIN, I have a question.    2 day ago my robot was 90% done.    I had it
> all working, AND I'd like to point out that when it placed a block it
> was DEAD CENTER!!!!!  BUT my question is this.   when I ran several
> tests the robot worked fine.     One day, my brother came over and i
> thought I'd show off the robot.    It crashed, and skipped, and ground
> gears.  it FAILED as a x robot!!!   I re-jigged everything, my brother
> left, and i re-ran sever tests.  the robot worked fine.
> 
> MY neighbor came over (Alex who also likes lego) and I tried to show him
> my robot.   IT FAILED again.
> 
> Iain, My question to you as a professional robot builder is, WHY????
> 
> does this happen to anyone else? Dose this happen in the real world??
> 
> help?
> 
> 
> --
> Chris
> Pretend this says something funny
> 
> 
It sound like Chris was dreaming again......

Jeff VW
(who is still trying to figure out how to make anything that actually
works.....)



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(...) Ummm, Iain, this is what I have been saying all along!!!! why try to make it light, when you can just add more motors!!!! i use 4 motors just to move the main X axis. as long as the rcx powered I've had NO problems. ALSO on another subject: (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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