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Re: Thoughts on Turning
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:40:25 GMT
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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 to figure out a way to build a differential drive whose
2 drive axles "lock" together when turned the same direction. Anyone tried
this approach?

Bill


Reno Pittner wrote in message <36AE36D5.DABF84AB@home.com>...
Thanks to all who replied.  I am now clear to benefits of the
adder/subtractor and will incorporate it into my bot.

Cheers,
Reno




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  can nqc control index of values?
 
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)

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  Re: Thoughts on Turning
 
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)

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