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I don't know if this will help, but i'm currently working on a device that lets one motor drive four seperate axles. Downside is that it's one direction only, and only one axle can be used at one time. Howerver, you could use an extra gear to make (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I think it would be very difficult to get workable bidirectional control of 2 things from one motor. However, it is quite possible to multiplex motors so you can do many more then 2 things from 2 motors. For example, you can have one motor (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Stupid me I just thought of another problem that makes this an engineering impossiblity (I think). How to reverse directions of the left/right action? It seems making the forward/backward motion and the left/right motion on the same motor is (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I think that there was some evidence a while ago about LEGO reps reading the lists. At least they are hearing us, now we need to see if they are doing anything about it. Andy (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Jason It's a Friday night and my mind has disengaged so I've not totally thought these through, but you could try a combination of ratchets and directional gearboxes (as seen in the Unofficial guide to Lego Mindstorms by J Knudsen). Basically you (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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