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Subject: 
Unidirectional gearing - was Synchro drive in Lego
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:37:50 GMT
Original-From: 
Medical Informatics Consulting <medinfo@aros.net+stopspammers+>
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Here's a really simple (but not fool-proof way):

Feed the motor output into a differential gear.  The output from the
differentials run out through beams and have a medium gear just outside
the beam.  Then suspend another beam
from one end using a single regular peg in the last hole on the beam.  The
other end of the beam engages a medium sized gear.  Just repeat in the
opposite direction on the other side.

So the outside looks something like this:


   Basic Frame                           Side View of ratchet

  Beam     Beam                                   _
   ||       ||                          ---------/-/------
   ||  Diff ||                           O O O O/O/O O O O
  #|| [ ^ ] ||#                         -------/-/--------
-#||-[{ }]-||#-                        ------/-/---------
  #|| [   ] ||#                          O O / / O O O O O
   || $$$$$ ||  Med. Gear               ----/-/-###-------
   ||   |   ||                          ----\/#######-----
      MMMMM                              O O ######### O O
      Motor                             ------#######-----
                                        --------###-------
                                         O O O O O O O O O
                                        ------------------


Hope this makes sense.

the proble with this method is that it will in time ruin the ratchet beam
and the ratchet gear.

You can also check out:

Michael Powells's transmission page at:

http://www.sonic.net/~rci/transmission.htm

Matt Sailors
medinfo@aros.net




On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Paul Speed wrote:

> S. Crawshaw wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> 
>  Yeah, but I can't think of a good way to ratchet the
> assembly.
>  -Paul (pspeed@augustschell.com)
> 
> > 
> > Stuart
> > 
> > --
> > Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics


--
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)

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