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    Re: Discontinuous motion. —Steve Baker
   (...) OH! I see! Very clever. I guess I should explain why I wanted this thing in the first place. All the talk last week about building a Turing machine using Lego - and building primitive mechanical computers in general led me to try to build a (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Discontinuous motion. —Rob Limbaugh
     Steve, Here's an "all gear" based solution (minus the chain I used from the drive shaft): (URL) not sure how much gear lash is in the design I came up with, but the thing runs very well (much better than I thought it would). It's been quite some (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Discontinuous motion. —Joseph Woolley
     Steve, I don't know if this will help you at all, but I certainly had fun with it. I put together a (quite bulky) version of the Geneva Wheel. (URL) Baker" wrote in message news:3CAB63F5.7A5CF2...ail.net... <snip> (...) you (...) moves (...) I don't (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
    
         Re: Discontinuous motion. —Philippe Hurbain
     Wow ! bulky indeed, but true Geneva mechanism... Congratulations ! Philo (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Discontinuous motion. —Robert Templeton
   (...) <snipped very interesting description> Just to chime in here quickly, you could use the lego small chain links instead of tons of gears to create gear trains. Advantages: gearing ratios are retained as in trains, backlash/chatter is reduced (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 

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