Subject:
|
Re: Discontinuous motion.
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:59:37 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
706 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.robotics, sjbaker1@airmail.net writes:
> Robert Limbaugh wrote:
> >
> > I meant using wheels with rubber treads. Rubber treads won't have a meshing
> > problem. Instead of the problem being gear mesh, the new problem should be
> > speed vs. friction.
>
> OH! I see! Very clever.
<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 *significantly*, and
idler gears are unnecessary as the direction of motion of gear1 is
transfered directly to gear2.
I'm not sure that they will be useful for what you intend, but have found
them to be indispensible in removing gear backlash and chatter and for
transfering motion over distances. And you can get 108 of the buggers for
$7.50 at Pitsco-Dacta's site.
Good luck on counter and let us know how it goes!
Robert Templeton
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Discontinuous motion.
|
| (...) 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)
|
5 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
Active threads in Robotics
|
|
|
|
|
|
