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Re: Computerized Trolley
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:06:21 GMT
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Well I take it you have you three sensors one above the other looking at a marker
post at each station...
oops... only seven stations...
so you can have more than one white block on each marker post
so you could arrange them thusly:
white white white white black black black
black black white white black white white
black white black white white black white
black black black is between stops
and there are your seven stations
(and none of you computer geeks out there need comment to ME about the order)
Steve Barile wrote:
> Nope, what do you propose?
> SteveB
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> Gord Goebel writes:
> > Hey Steve,
> >
> > That's very cool but do you realize that with 3 light sensors you could have 8
> > stops?
> >
> > Steve Barile wrote:
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> > > I finally programmed the Decta Controller to control a
> > > trolley line. It senses (3x light sensor) the trolley at three locations
> > > (train stops/stations) along a track. I assume a linear track rather than a
> > > loop. After spending a somewhat random amount of time (adds realism) at each
> > > stop it moves to the next. What's cool is that it randomly chooses which
> > > station to go to next e.g. 1-2-3-2-3-2-1-3-2-3-1... the 1-3 implies that the
> > > trolley blows thru stop (2) in the middle. When it arrives at any stop it
> > > beeps the appropriate number of times. Before pulling out of each stop it
> > > beeps again. Also while at the stop it can run motors... I just have a motor
> > > spinning for now, but using the coo-coo clock model, I was thinking of
> > > sticking some mini figs on a rotating platter so they come out of and back
> > > into a station...
> > >
> > > The trolley I'm using is a 9v based on the red trolley by Chris at
> > > http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/trains/Engine% • 20gallery/engine_gallery.htm
> > >
> > > SteveB
> >
> > --
> > "It is better to ask a 'stupid question' than to make a stupid mistake."
--
"It is better to ask a 'stupid question' than to make a stupid mistake."
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| In article <36BF7BFD.BD960A1C@p...sport.ca>, Gord Goebel <gggii@passport.ca> writes (...) LOL! I would never have dreamed of it! (Well, I did, actually, until I read that comment) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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