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| (...) Dean, Thank you for your response. I am going to get on with the tow rope suggestion right away. You might like to know that your 2002 'Building Lego Robots for FLL' guide was the first thing that I read. Raj (19 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| You only need one rotation sensor and some fancy gearing. Using a differential in a way similar to the "South Facing Cart" or the stearing drive in a dual differential setup, you could directly measure the amount of spin between a driven wheel and (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Steve, One rotation sensor is allowed. There are also two light sensors, so your idea is definitely doable. The situations that are confusing are when the pull of the other robot prevents your robot from making any headway, as well as when (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Steve, Provided that my robot doesn't tip-over and that only the front wheels are driven. I have seen a video of a robot in last year's competition that opened up into a V-shape. The angle between the arms of the V being greater than 90 (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Steve, Philo's page on 'Wheels, Tyres & Traction' seems to imply that increased speed will not make much of a difference or am I reading that wrong? By 'mechanically connect' do you mean by using two differentials? The maximum 'safe' gearing (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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