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Re: New creation: Lego Clock
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 4 May 1999 15:19:19 GMT
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Luis Villa <liv@duke#AntiSpam#.edu>
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i'd love to take a look at this (and the alarm clock sounds like a fun
project idea:) but when trying to resolve Ben's page, I get a problem
resolving staticip.cx. Do you have an actual IP we can reach your page
at, ben? Or should I just keep trying?
On Tue, 4 May 1999, alex wetmore wrote:
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> On Tue, 4 May 1999, Ben Williamson wrote:
> > I've just put up a page describing my latest creation, an analog clock.
> > It's quite compact, has coaxial minute and hour hands, and uses a
> > fiber-optic rotation sensor to stay in sync with the RCX's internal clock.
> > Photos, NQC source and building instructions are at:
> >
> > http://www.pobox.com/~benw/lego/clock/
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> Cool project.
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> One comment. You can get a 60:1 ratio using lego gears using a drive
> train like this:
> 8:40 driving 8:24 driving 8:16 driving 8:16. (that is 5x3x2x2 = 60)
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> Using legOS you could build a full featured alarm clock that used
> the buttons on top as user input :)
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> alex
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> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
>
>
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| (...) The DNS for staticip.cx is served by my little machine, and the DSL was down for a while last night. I gotta set up that secondary DNS... In the meantime, 216.100.248.143 is fine, like Jonathan said. On Tue, 4 May 1999, alex wetmore wrote: (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) One comment. You can get a 60:1 ratio using lego gears using a drive train like this: 8:40 driving 8:24 driving 8:16 driving 8:16. (that is 5x3x2x2 = 60) Using legOS you could build a full featured alarm clock that used the buttons on top as (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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