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"David Koudys" <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message news:IA3zL9.xKJ@lugnet.com... (...) What's the big deal? Either you can make a module to comply with simple specs, or you can't. If you need more space and can't fit everything inside 1 - (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Why impose more limits than necessary? Of the 10 modules in our (very successful) test GBC, these 4 would have to be eliminated for being out-of-spec: (not a multiple of 32) (URL) I forgot, you can't use 48x48 baseplates. Add this: (URL) to (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Wow. Mondayness for me as well. I agree with you, Rob. That said, to start, Steve and Co. have their little thing goin' on, and I just wanted to point out that, within the parameters as layed out by them, one has toe potential to make a module (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I didn't think about this until lunch, but you'll note this little yellow modules conforms to the spec, and works very well as an 90 degree turn to the left, and could also turn right: (URL) fact, it may be interesting to see someone build a (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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news-gateway@lugnet.com wrote on 01/10/2005 01:03:08 PM: (...) little (...) beyond 32 studs can be used as right-turns. It's just as obvious (once Steve points it out, that is) that modules that do *not* extend into the first 32 studs (besides the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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tmassey@obscorp.com writes: > Perfect. Right turns and left turns, and we stay in-spec. Beautiful. There should also be an appendix to the spec pointing this out, though. Something like this should go into the Building Notes: Turning modules: You (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thank you Tim! You point out the strengths of the "loose spec" far better than I have been. And based on that, I'll now have a module that will adhere to the Type I spec, but allow left or right 90-deg turns (with 32x32 or smaller neighboring (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) ... (...) So, I'm at home with a sick boy, today, which has given me time to rebuild my stepper module (already 10 studs wide) and it's now 32 studs long. It will turn the stream right or left, go straight, it runs right at 1 bps (actually 4 (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Hassenplug wrote: <snip> (...) As a tangent (and to give those of you more inspiration than needed...) Here's some nifty mechanisms that just might help inspire noew and creative ways of moving dem dar soccer balls around-- (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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