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Re: Get 8 Outputs from RCX: A Pure-Lego Solution
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 11 Mar 1999 05:13:06 GMT
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Hao-yang Wang <hywang@pobox.com> wrote:
> Dave Baum writes:
> > I'm not sure if the 4-way would work, but it it did you could put a 4 way
> > on each of the outputs of the first 4-way, yielding a 16 way splitter. Of
> > course this would require 10 polarity switches.
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> This is a great idea, and it pushes the number of outputs up to 32: We
> connect two 16-way splitter to RCX, and use one direction of the
> controlling motor for both the "first-level" splitters and the other
> direction for all the eight second-level splitters.
Now wait just one minite. If you connect up the outputs of a few of the
32-way spliiter to the inputs of other 32-way spliiters, you can drive many
more outputs. How many outputs are we at now?
-Kekoa
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 | | Re: Get 8 Outputs from RCX: A Pure-Lego Solution
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| (...) But then we run out of outputs for the controlling motors. On the other hand, we may layer four stages of the 4-way splitter into a 256- way, then use both directions of the other two outputs to control these four stages... I think this is (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Get 8 Outputs from RCX: A Pure-Lego Solution
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| (...) This is a great idea, and it pushes the number of outputs up to 32: We connect two 16-way splitter to RCX, and use one direction of the controlling motor for both the "first-level" splitters and the other direction for all the eight (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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