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Re: **lego motors?**
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:36:07 GMT
Original-From: 
Alex Wetmore <alex@phred.orgANTISPAM>
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From: S. Crawshaw <sc10003@eng.cam.ac.uk>
A more technically involved idea, which I've never heard tried: attach the
two wheels to each other through a gearbox, so that by changing gear you
change the ratio of their speeds. Has anyone ever tried something like
this?

http://www.phred.org/~alex/lego has a few robots which use an
adder/subtractor to do this, and there are links to all of the other similar
designs on the internet that I am aware of.

alex

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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



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  Re: **lego motors?**
 
(...) Quite simply, no two motors run at exactly the same speed for a given power level. (Slight differences in the wheels, or flexibility in the axles will also produce the same effect, although probably much less noticeable) There's no simple (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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