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Re: A dream Mindstorms/Technic piece...
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Date: 
Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:50:04 GMT
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Tilman Sporkert wrote:

However, there's a much smaller 9V battery box that takes
a single 9V cell. It only has a single switch, and that switch has two Lego
dots on top!

Indeed :-)

Perhaps you missed the post I made earlier in this thread (I think it was only
on lugnet.technic at that point) where I posted the URL for my compressor
device using this battery box? Here it is anyway:

   http://www.telepresence.strath.ac.uk/jen/lego/ideas.htm

Your amusement park ride sounds pretty cool BTW - John Barnes has also
mentioned using the Znap pieces as guide rails before if I remember correctly.

Jennifer Clark



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  RE: A dream Mindstorms/Technic piece...
 
The Mindstorms touch sensor isn't a switch, but a sensor. You need an RCX or MicroScout to read it's status. It is not suited for directly switching a load like a motor. It can only carry a very small current, and still has a lot of resistance when (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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