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Subject: 
Re: Best pneumatic hexapod yet!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:02:12 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Bellis wrote:
   In lugnet.technic, Paul Kleniewski wrote:
   hi kevin and steve

it should be the first moc where the rcx would be let’s say a slave to pneumatic circuit am i right guys

:D

Sounds like an ideal application for an RCX input multiplexer: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1092526

You can then have 12 switches on your RCX to measure two positions on each of 6 legs. Using the thermometer setting on the ports, each combination of switches is dstinguishable as a different raw sensor value with a margin of at least 5 counts, with 16 possible values per port. You could then plot the leg movement on a graph!

This is very much like input multiplexor I created when inventing my first pneumatic adding machine. The muxing was needed to create my 16 key keyboard.

http://kclague.net/pneumaddic/index.htm

You can see the resistor ladder network stack to the right of the keyboard.

Also you can see more details, including my potentiometer bricks, in this brickshelf folder.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=38104

  
Mark

Kevin



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(...) Sounds like an ideal application for an RCX input multiplexer: (URL) You can then have 12 switches on your RCX to measure two positions on each of 6 legs. Using the thermometer setting on the ports, each combination of switches is (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jul-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, FTX)

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