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Re: Call me a Lego pureist if you will but...
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Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:26:37 GMT
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Brian Alano <alano@=NoMoreSpam=kiva.net>
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I toyed with sewing thread. I tied it to the end of the dart and fed it
through the cannon.
Here are my observations.
1. Rewinding and reloading works fairly well. As long as the dart doesn't
approach the cannon at a right angle to the barrel, it will usually load
fine.
2. The thread has to be fairly strong in order to overcome the spring
tension during loading.
3. Paying out thread without severely slowing down the dart is the hard
part. My attempts failed. You need some kind of spindle to rewind the
thread, but I believe you would have to remove it in order to let the
thread pay out unfettered.
Juergen Stuber wrote:
> theverly@nospam.hotmail.com (Tom Heverly) writes:
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> That certainly makes it easier to fire multiple shots,
> but I only got one (from 8008 in a nice black color),
> so, anybody got a reloading mechanism for robots?
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 | | RE: Call me a Lego pureist if you will but...
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| ... (...) ... (...) If you don't pre-accelerate the winch or outright power it, then some of the energy that propels the dart out of the cannon will be needed to accelerate the spindel. That will happen right away, as the dart leaves the cannon. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Call me a Lego pureist if you will but...
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| (...) Gear up a old 9V motor to spin the spindle very fast, and then spin it just before and while the dart is flying. You may be able to keep up the thread payout with enough gearing. Andy -- See my Visual Interface for leJOS at (URL) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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