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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.ac.ukNOMORESPAM>
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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



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  Re: Synchro drive in Lego
 
(...) Yeah, but I can't think of a good way to ratchet the assembly. -Paul (pspeed@augustschell.com) (...) (28 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? (...) (28 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 (...) (28 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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