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Micro Scout can run off its own motor
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 29 Aug 1999 22:38:30 GMT
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I just got the Droid Development kit. Try this:
* Connect an axle to the motor of the Micro Scout. Disconnect and/or remove any
other things that you have connected to the Micro Scout.
* Take out the batteries (if any)
* Start turning the motor clockwise. Notice that it has some inertia.
* While holding it in one hand, use the other to get it to rotate continuously
at 5 to 10 revolutions per second.
* While it's rotating, use the hand you're holding it with to hit the ON-OFF
button. Keep the motor going at 5-10 revolutions per second.
* It will beep twice and go through its startup sequence (L, E, G, O, number)
* If you keep the motor going you can hit SELECT and see the numbers change.
* You can even hit RUN and it will try to run the program. I don't know yet
what the 7 programs do so it would be pointless to try to describe what's
happening. I'll just note that sometimes it makes noises and sometimes the
motor resistance gets really high, presumably because the program decides to
try to run the motor in the opposite direction from that in which I am turning
it.
Cool, huh?
- Robert Munafo http://www.mrob.com/
LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ #+ S-- LS++ Hsp M+ A@ LM++ YB64m IC13
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Micro Scout can run off its own motor
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| i have found out that the futuron Monorail works much the same way. Connect a light to the monorail motor, and run the motor on the track. The lights will be lit! I assume it is because the motor functions as some sort of generator. (...) any (...) (...) (25 years ago, 5-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Micro Scout can run off its own motor
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| If you connect two motors to each other (i used 'new' technic motors) and turn one of them manually, the other one will turn too. You can transfer rotational motion through an electric wire this way. Actually, the motor you're turning simply acts as (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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