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Library of Tricks?
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 13 Aug 2000 01:32:30 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net(stopspammers)>
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I was looking at Jun Yu's clever little Hexapod design, and thinking that
I'm a *long* way from having the skills to design something neat and compact
like that.
Is there anywhere on the web - or in a book somewhere - a "library" of clever
little tricks or basic Lego Technics design hints?
Things like: I wanted to make a reciprocating vertical motion from a motor
output - but I'm finding it very hard to make such a thing from the parts I
have without it being *HUGE* - or very fragile. I guess this problem has
been solved a dozen times over - and some of your guys can probably think
of several good tricks for doing that.
The question is, has anyone every put a collection of those tricks together
in print or on the web anywhere?
There are a few tricks like that in the manuals that come with Mindstorms
sets - but that just leaves me realising how valuable such a thing would be.
If it doesn't exist, should it? I could probably find enough web site space
to store such a thing on a permenant basis if people would like to contribute
to it.
I'm not sure how you'd present the information - photos? Drawings made with
one of the Lego-specific CAD programs? Downloadable source files for those
CAD programs that show things step-by-step?
How would you search/classify the various techniques?
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| (...) clever (...) Man, that's exactly what I'd love to see ... a set of Design Patterns for Lego construction, much like Alexander's patterns for architecture or the Gang of Four's patterns for object-oriented software. I smell a book opportunity (...) (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Library of Tricks?
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| Have a look at this page: (URL) Matthews Steve Baker <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3995FAAE.B3B8A9...ail.net... (...) compact (...) clever (...) motor (...) I (...) together (...) be. (...) space (...) contribute (...) with (...) (...) (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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