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Re: is it possible to make a motor with a limited range of travel?
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 20 Jun 2004 00:24:34 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Mark Haye wrote:
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> I built something very much like this. I used a rack with a few 1x1 TECHNIC
> beams in it. The touch sensor pressed against the side of the rack and was
> normally closed. When a hole in one of the beams passed over the sensor,
> it would open. I had one hole for centering the mechanism and two at the
> ends to limit the travel. You could extend this idea with a long TECHNIC
> beam and detect many different positions. Similar to the above, this will
> require one motor and one sensor per rack, so a maximum of three with
> one RCX. Pictures and description can be found here:
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> http://members.cox.net/markhaye/kd_elev.html
If you have a light sensor you can do a similar thing with different coloured
bricks along the beam, like I did on my tower crane
http://www.lugnet.com/~469/projects/towercrane
ROSCO
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