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Re: Working around the 3 output limitation
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:28:18 GMT
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> The LEGO *thing*, in my opinion, is about doing what you can with the
> bits you are 'given'; which is why I personally slightly regret some of
> the more specialised pieces in some of the recent LEGO kits.
> Incorporating non-LEGO bits is to my mind sort of 'cheating' (although
> my current walker uses cable-ties to keep some of it's cables neatly in
> place).
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> Having said that at some stage I'm going to hook a compass up to my RCX,
> because I can't think of any other way of building a robot which can
> navigate it's domain.
Actually there is a working LEGO compass, put probably not large and
reliable enough to be read by a sensor.
Eric Brok
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| (...) Light sensor with a magnifier? :-) I tried using the differential gear to "remember" the initial heading of my robot, and painfully discovered that the result would drift off after many turns. Now I think compass is the way to go. (I wonder (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Working around the 3 output limitation
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| (...) I think this is right. After all, we could all start with an asortmaent of bits of metal and plastic and a hobby engineering shop, and build arbitrary robot designs; and *probably*, it wouldn't cost a huge amount more than the mindstorms kit (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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