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Re: Gear spacings.
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:31:34 GMT
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Can't agree with you here Jennifer. I mean, isn't this half the fun of
technic building? Working out gear ratio's, how to fit them in your model,
changing, compromising.... If you'd write a program like that, link it to
some CAD application, and if you take this a few steps further you might as
well sell your LEGO and stick to virtual building....
That was my creative side speaking. A word from my abstract (programmers')
side: yeah, that's a nice challenge to program! A nice exercise in
mathematical modelling.
I'm afraid the creative side won this one....
Duq
"Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:3A081D06.E3AA8E4@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk...
> Something else I've thought would be handy would be a program which would • take
> as inputs the desired positions of the input and output axles in a gear • train
> and the desired gear ratio. Space constraints in the form of "bricks" • blocking
> off certain volumes of space would also be input. The program would then • go off
> and compute all possible gear trains (if any) that fit the parameters. A • degree
> of "fuzziness" could be built in that would allow, for example, variations • of
> the desired gear ratio, and perhaps a factor could be specified stating • the
> desired "perfectness" of the gear geometry.
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| (...) You have a good point there, and like yourself, part of me is in agreement. Even with that, I think perhaps one of the most interesting things about a program like this would be seeing if it came up with anything unusual or non-obvious that (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Something else I've thought would be handy would be a program which would take as inputs the desired positions of the input and output axles in a gear train and the desired gear ratio. Space constraints in the form of "bricks" blocking off (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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