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| | | (...) Dunno - I think it's *WAY* different. It's almost as if it were DESIGNED for making the robots that are in all the photos. It looks quite inconvenient for building wheeled or tracked vehicles because of how the drive shaft exits at right (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: new Mindstorms servos? —Dean Earley
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| | | | | (...) From the picture, that is connected as an input, and the video posted by Yann shows this rotating under NXT control. It looks to me like it can be EITHER a rotation sensor or motor, but not both.... (19 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: new Mindstorms servos? —Yann Vernier
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| | | | | | (...) I spotted somewhere a mention of closed-loop controllers, which would mean that the motor *is* the rotation sensor. I expect the handle was installed to make it easier to manually adjust and test the mechanism and that the rotation sensing (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: new Mindstorms servos? —danny staple
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| | | | (...) Hi Steve, I disagree here. Going at right angles, along with the gear reduction makes it much easier for me to build tracked or wheeled vehicals. Even more so when the odometry is taken care of. (...) That is excellent - additional torque on (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | RE: new Mindstorms servos? —Russell C. Brown [RR-1]
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| | | | (...) micromotor assembly, then this is probably a space saving. And it is most definately a saving in complexity. Hmm... If the rotation sensor is directly connected to the motor, then it can't detect rotation when the motor slips (e.g., you've got (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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