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Re: Fishing for a tasty linkage/gearing/robotic building thread... (fwd)
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 13 May 1999 15:06:52 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Jim Choate) writes:
> As I understand your goal, the point was to time the occurance of a sequence
> of actions. You don't necessarily need a switch, use a mechanical counter
> with various lock-outs. One method would be to use a rod with various
> eccentrics on it driving other mechanisms. The escarpment would simply
> guarantee that one mechanical action didn't begin before it's previous one
> completed, this would provent mechanism lock-up. If you're careful you'd
> only need a single swithc to notify the computer it was in the start/stop
> position, and a single output to unlock it for another cycle.
Yes, this is the point. You "need a single swithc to notify the computer it
was in the start/stop position", and another one to read to value of your
"program code" at that moment.
Mario
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