Subject:
|
Re: The Great Ball Contraption
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:01:17 GMT
|
Original-From:
|
Russell Nelson <nelson@+stopspam+crynwr.com>
|
Viewed:
|
1726 times
|
| |
|
|
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 should always design your module as if it will be
used in a long straight line of modules. You can, however, easily
create a module which can also turn 90 degrees right or left. A
right-turning module needs to keep the area in front of the In basket
clear. This area needs to be the width of the In basket, or 10 studs.
The depth of this clear area should be without limit. A left-turning
module needs to keep the area behind the In basket clear. This area
is accurately described by four points: the Back Left corner, the Back
Right corner, the Back Left of the output, and the Back Left of the In
basket. This area will be exactly 22 studs deep and must be least 32
studs wide. Nothing prevents a module from being designed as both
left-turning and right-turning.
--
--My blog is at angry-economist.russnelson.com | Freedom means allowing
Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | people to do things the
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-323-1241 cell | majority thinks are
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 212-202-2318 VOIP | stupid, e.g. take drugs.
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: The Great Ball Contraption
|
| (...) 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)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption
|
| 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)
|
11 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
Active threads in Robotics
|
|
|
|
|
|
