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Re: GBC Questions
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Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:56:54 GMT
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On Wed, September 28, 2005 1:23 pm, David Koudys wrote:
First, thought I'd visit this group to see what's up...

welcome

Anyway, for the GBC--specifically the train portion--Few questions--

did you just connect an RCX to the track?

Yes.  The train motor is just another 9v motor, much like the one with the
Mindstorms kit.

did you use the 2x8 electrical plate to combine all outputs a la Mark Riley's
LDCC?

No.  The reason for doing that (using the electrical plate) is if you are running
big trains that put a large load on the RCX, or several trains.

are you running standard 'robot' firmware or are you running LDCC?

Yes.  It's just "normal" robot programming.  The first train was pretty simple, and
used all the I/O for a single RCX.

Sensors:
1) Touch sensor to detect train at loading station
2) Touch sensor at unloading station
3) Touch sensor/limit switch for unloading arm at unloading station

A) Motor to run loading station
B) Motor to lower/raise unloading arm
C) Output to drive train

Thanks for asking.



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In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Steve Hassenplug wrote: <snip> (...) Thanks for telling--mucho appreciated. You don't find that having one motor port powering the entire track to be hard on the RCX? Dave K (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)

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First, thought I'd visit this group to see what's up... Anyway, for the GBC--specifically the train portion--Few questions-- did you just connect an RCX to the track? did you use the 2x8 electrical plate to combine all outputs a la Mark Riley's (...) (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)

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