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(...) The trouble with this is that it's not necessarily true. Take 100 Lego turntables and connect them up into a vertical column. By this measure, it has 100 DOF - but as a mechanism, it has no more flexibility than a single turntable (1-DOF). (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) A Lego remote controller would be cheaper than a second RCX. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage : (URL) : (4 URLs) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes. (...) Depends a lot on how much work your robot is doing. If it's just running the computer with no motors or sensors turned on - then probably 12 hours. If you are running lots of motors and sensors then it's more like 3 hours...but it (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Nick, Setting the timeslice to a low number (5ms is fairly low), negetively effects overall system performance. Time used by the operating system for task switching is taken away from applications. If a switch takes .5ms (for example) and you switch (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Power-to-weight ratio's are far too poor. Electric-powered aircraft have to be built with very careful attention to battery and motor technology with the lightest possible designs. Lego is HEAVY - so no aircraft. (...) Yes - that's fairly (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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