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Re: Voltage generator
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Date: 
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:25:35 GMT
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It occurs to me that a pure Lego solution could be constructed fron a
fibre-optic doodad and a light sensor. Get your mechanisim to rotate the
fibre-optic rotator, use one fibre pointing at the light sensor, and bingo!
instant anero...wossname. and no nasty resistors or solder near your nice lego
:)

Regards, Dave.


In article <Pine.GSO.3.96.990120135716.21321R-100000@frodo.uen.org>,
lego-robotics@crynwr.com had their 2d worth...

Daniel,

   Peter Hesketh posted a similar suggestion, and yes the motor may be
too firm for the job.  I'll play around and do some testing, this week or
as I can get time. Then I'll post the results. My goal is to end up with a
pure Lego anemometer or one as close as possible.  I'm not a complete
purist my self, but it may be of use to those who are *grin*


Jeff D. Payne
UtahLINK Network Operations

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Daniel Miller wrote:

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, jeff wrote:

I was thinking of the windmill/current concept - though am open to better
suggestions.

I figure it would take quite a gale to turn over the gear motor with any
degree of accuracy, but you might be able to rig something with the
rotation sensor and a model airplane prop.


Daniel "Dan'l" Miller                Senior, School of Aeronautics and
danielmi@ecn.purdue.edu              Astronautics, Purdue, Indiana
                "Stadtluft macht frei." - German proverb

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  RE: Voltage generator
 
There is a better way to use the fiber optic doodad as a rotation sensor: just connect it to the RCX on an input configured as a light-sensor and count pulses in electrical resistance. Read more here: (URL) -----Original Message----- (...) (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Voltage generator
 
Daniel, Peter Hesketh posted a similar suggestion, and yes the motor may be too firm for the job. I'll play around and do some testing, this week or as I can get time. Then I'll post the results. My goal is to end up with a pure Lego anemometer or (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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