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Re: Fishing for a tasty linkage/gearing/robotic building thread...
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Thu, 13 May 1999 02:15:00 GMT
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Anders Isaksson <isaksson.etuna@REMOVEebox.tninet.se> wrote in message
news:FBMxI9.GuC@lugnet.com...
Our machine reads a 'program' made by putting small bricks (1x1, square or
round) on a LEGO plate (2x8,10,any). This 'program' is driven slowly (with • the
third motor, a lot of gears and some rubber bands :-) past two touch • sensors
(one on each side) which for the moment just turns the drive motors • on/off,
but eventually we want to have a predefined turn amount.

I realy like the program reading mechanism.  Let me know when you have
photos.  However I probably need more precise turning than this will give.



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  Re: Fishing for a tasty linkage/gearing/robotic building thread...
 
Michael Gasperi skrev i meddelandet ... (...) An idea we have (but no implementation ideas yet), is to drive the program in discrete 'steps', sampling the sensors during the step, and decide the action. This would make exact turns possible. The main (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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Michael Gasperi skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Hey, that's almost our (me and my kids) current project! We have Cybermaster, not RIS, but in this case I think the CM is better, as it have the built-in tachometers for the two permanent motors. We (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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