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<snip snip snip> (...) if i remember correctly there was something where the guy did something like put a differential through the turntable with the 24t part of the diff inside the 24t inside gearing and then made a sort of limited slip axel (did i (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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May I give it a go?..... I'm not exactly sure of the Toy you speak of, Hmmm. I also have seen a Toy that does this. I brought a gift from Zany Brainy for my Friends Son's Birthday. The thing was neat! It was a Clear Ball and had a little I think, (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) > >> ....*OH*...so there is only one wheel in your solution. Hmmm - I hadn't (...) Aha! That works a treat! (URL) a bit slow moving with that gearing - but I'll soon fix that) Many thanks. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yeah - exactly. (...) Limiting the rotation like that would remove the very feature of this mechanism that I need - the ability to escape (eventually) from any kind of corner. (...) That might work - but it comes into the catagory of 'iffy' (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The "Cy-Purr Mouse" cat toy seems to be sold just about everywhere (including my local supermarket) for $9 US or so. See, for example*: (URL) employs the principle you are describing about as precisely as I can imagine. The only problem I've (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (URL) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I find it hard to believe some 'iffy' condition would be required for a mass-producted childs toy. (so you hope) I have two suggestions. 1) Limit the rotation of the turntable to 180 degrees. (or 180 each direction) That should keep it from (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've been trying to build a mechanism I remember seeing on a kids toy. What I'm thinking of is a vehicle with two un-driven wheels at the back and two wheels at the front that are mounted on a turntable such that they normally pull the vehicle (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Stef Mientki" <s.mientki@ids.kun.nl> wrote in message news:H4IC2q.8HB@lugnet.com... (...) Dasher? No, do you have a URL? Dean (...) and (...) as (...) the (...) felt (...) spirit (...) correspondence. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Out on the Town, Jama can now take a bow. (URL) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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hi Dean, ever heard of "Dasher", could be an alternative too ? Stef (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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"David Koudys" <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message news:H4HLMq.B5E@lugnet.com... (...) ;) ). (...) after (...) and (...) To get it to transmit on all channels again you must hit that forth button. Then it resets it back to all channels... (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Syngress has published another LEGO book, continuing the series started by the Dark Side Developer's Kit book, and to be finished up by the Ultimate Builder's Set book. I think all three will be available in a kit too. This current book is specific (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic) !
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"Joseph Woolley" <jwoolley@spamblock....ht.rr.com> wrote in message news:H4HvF3.C03@lugnet.com... (...) Win2k. (...) Ah, so it's not just me. I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure out what I might be doing wrong. A few years ago I had (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I don't think the problem is WinXP specific: I had the same issue on Win2k. I ended up using the prebuilt gcc/binutils from hitachi for that reason. However, the prebuilt set is quite a bit older. I hope this issue can be worked out so we can begin (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello, Are there any know problems getting the h8 cross compiler working under Windows XP? I'm using the latest cygwin environment, along with gcc3.2, newlib1.10, and have tried both the binutils source distributed with cygwin (2002070601?) and I (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) From my experience, The remotes, when first turned on, seem to send out the signals on all channels (1,2,3), until a specific channel is picked--then the remote only works for the robot that is on that specific channel. This happened with the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) I think a switched on RCX that doesn't use sensors or motors draws ca 10mA, regardless of the program running. That's enough to drain batteries in a few days. Jürgen (23 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Did you noticed that Snaptrax remote control can directly control any Spybotic, as others remotes can't ??? I'm wondering why... - Christophe - (23 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Yes - most ultra-low power devices actually shut down most of the CPU circuitry for most of the time...just waking up when something interesting happens. Your CPU was running at full speed the whole time. Imagine something like a GameBoy (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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