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  Re: Mechanical Indexing Drives
 
(...) Here is a nice Geneva escapement done in Lego: (URL) used this quite successfully - although it is rather bulky. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkMail: <sjbaker@link.com> URLs : (8 URLs) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Mechanical Indexing Drives
 
(...) I should make it clear that this isn't my invention - I just remembered the URL for it. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkMail: <sjbaker@link.com> URLs : (8 URLs) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Mechanical Indexing Drives
 
Has anyone done any type of indexing drive, say, where a carousel is driven intermitently, with dwell, from a continuously-rotating input shaft? Iain (22 years ago, 27-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Mechanical Indexing Drives
 
(...) I haven't, but it sounds good. You could use a touch or light sensor to read data off a disk. (If you're crazy, you could write a Linux block device driver for it.) (22 years ago, 27-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Mechanical Indexing Drives
 
"Nick Tarleton" <jp_prongs@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GzwyvF.16K@lugnet.com... (...) Well, of course... I guess my question was more or less meaning has anyone done similar to the units offered by CAMCO or Sankyo (indexing turntables). Or a (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Mechanical Indexing Drives
 
(...) Great job Steve!! I *KNEW* someone must have built one already! As soon as I saw Iain's post I started thinking about it, and quickly built one. Although not as pretty or sturdy as Steve's, it works nonetheless. Since I don't have access to a (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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