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Re: Rotational -> linear motion pics
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 24 Jul 2001 05:18:40 GMT
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Russ Brown <russellclintonbrown@yahooANTISPAM.com>
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Thanks for the pictures! If that's the stairway, I'm
very interested in seeing the rest of the museum.
I thought the square gears at the end had an offbeat
charm, though I don't really see how they produce
linear motion....
--- Elijah Meeker <emeeker@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I was recently at the Museum of Science and Industry
> in Chicago and in the
> green stairwell they have a display of mechanisms
> that modify rotational
> movement. I took pics of them all and I thought
> folks might like to see them.
> There are descriptions with each, but I couldn't get
> them in the picture very
> well. I hope they inspire somebody as much as they
> did me!
>
> http://home.austin.rr.com/thehiding/mechanisms.html
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> Elijah
>
> P.S. they have a Mindstorms workshop you can do
> there, about 40 minutes long,
> but I skipped it as there was too much else to see.
> What an amazing place,
> it's worth it's own 2-day vacation to Chicago. Add
> another day or two to
> swing over to the Field Museum (home of Sue the
> T-Rex). For any dinosaur fans
> out there I was hoping to see the Jobaria Tigedensis
> mounts that Paul Sereno
> did, but they weren't anywhere that I could find.
> --
> Did you check the web site first?:
> http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
>
>
>
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| (...) Exactly, it's amazing. (...) Oh they don't, they fall under the catch-all of (...) What they do is change constant speed rotation into alternating fast and slow rotation. Elijah (25 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hello, I was recently at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and in the green stairwell they have a display of mechanisms that modify rotational movement. I took pics of them all and I thought folks might like to see them. There are (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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