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I don't know much about mechanics or walkers, but what about a gyro device that's more stable than a rotational sensor. Surely someone out there would know how to use one of these to "balance" a walker. Of course this means powering the gyro to spin (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rope Climbing and Can Crushing at BrickBots.Com
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(...) [SNIP] (...) Good idea, but the rules specify that the robot can not start with a store of human provided potential energy (Aside from the batteries in the RCX if you want to be technical). The large weight waiting to drop would be a bunch of (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rope Climbing and Can Crushing at BrickBots.Com
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(...) I don't have the time to work on this, but I see a relatively simple way to do this that might work well. Build a column to stack all 3 cans into. Place 3 "spikes" roughly dead center at each can, the RCX powers a bar that moves the spikes in (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rope Climbing and Can Crushing at BrickBots.Com
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Hi There, Hmm, you found the loophole! Okay, the rules have been changed to indicate that all cans must be crushed at least 50%. This should prevent the instant win, but still keep the formula as it was. The updated formula is a good one, but since (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Building a computer from Lego's
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Sorry if this one has been suggested: (URL) have seen two others, but searches came up empty and didn't someone post a brick sorter that read in a sequence of 1x2 tiles to produce an "order" to be "picked" from hoppers of different colour? Couldn't (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general)
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