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Subject: 
RE: New creation: Lego Clock
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 4 May 1999 21:16:28 GMT
Original-From: 
Tilman Sporkert <TILMAN@avoidspamACTIVESW.COM>
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Yep, pretty cool.  I can't take credit for figuring that out, does anyone
recall who did?  I'm sure this side-effect didn't happen by accident,
there's no real reason to switch the LED when it's blocked if all you want
is pretty flashing light pipes.

Has anybody looked inside on of those fiber-optic light "distributors"?
Maybe it's a set of LEDs in a circle, with a contact wiper mounted on the
axle that turns them on one by one as the axle rotates?

Tilman

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



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  RE: New creation: Lego Clock
 
(...) No, there's only one LED and it moves. I haven't opened one up, but if you turn it slowly and look down the holes you can watch the LED get brighter and then dimmer as it goes past. Weird design if you just want a light chaser, but cool if you (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: New creation: Lego Clock
 
(...) Yep, pretty cool. I can't take credit for figuring that out, does anyone recall who did? I'm sure this side-effect didn't happen by accident, there's no real reason to switch the LED when it's blocked if all you want is pretty flashing light (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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