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Subject: 
Re: Synchro drive in Lego
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:04:26 GMT
Original-From: 
S. Crawshaw <sc10003@eng.cam*AvoidSpam*.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Paul Speed wrote:

one of those fancy turntable thingies.  What I ended up with was
something like this:

My original thinking was to try and figure out a way to
get the whole assembly to want to drive rather than turn without
any linking to the plate. (Unfortunately, even with enough

could you not (I haven't tried this!) use a ratchet on the assembly so
that axle rotation one way turns the assembly, and the other way drives
the wheel?

Stuart

--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Synchro drive in Lego
 
(...) Yeah, but I can't think of a good way to ratchet the assembly. -Paul (pspeed@augustschell.com) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
  Unidirectional drive (was Re: Synchro drive in Lego)
 
(...) Yup, that'd work. But it would have the annoying side-effect of making a heck of a lot of noise as the ratchet went from tooth to tooth. Is there any way to minimize that? (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Synchro drive in Lego
 
(...) Well, apparently, neither can I. :) Or I would have done it and posted it. :) I played with some stuff last night that ended in a dead-end. I'm not really sure the approach is fruitless, but I'm realizing as I go on that I'm much less creative (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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