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    Re: Thoughts on Turning —Alex Wetmore
   (...) You don't even ned two caster wheels, just one works fine. This is what I've been doing on my robots. You just need to make sure that your main wheels aren't at the center of gravity (or close enough to it for the robot to flip over). (...) It (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Thoughts on Turning —Reno Pittner
   Thanks to all who replied. I am now clear to benefits of the adder/subtractor and will incorporate it into my bot. Cheers, Reno (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Thoughts on Turning —Bill Clagett
   It is a very nice mechanism. But, at least in my implementation, only one motor is pushing your vehicle. Some of my larger bots have needed more power than one seems to crank out. After gearing down further it is painfully slow. I'm currently trying (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        can nqc control index of values? —GK Khalsa
   I have been using the Smalltalk Bot-kit for programming, and I think it's great. But as the code grew, I ran into a Spirit exception, that locks up the port. Anyway, I'll move the code to nqc, but I was taking advantage of a feature I don't see in (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: can nqc control index of values? —Dave Baum
   You can't explicitly assign variables to slots, but the allocation is simple enough - they get allocated in the same order they are declared, starting with 0. I can't promise that the allocation order will never change, but on the other hand I can't (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
 

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