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Re: PC <> RCX Communication?
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:54:15 GMT
Original-From: 
Maneesh Soni <maneeshsoni@hotmail.com*spamless*>
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Kornel Lambert (Email: kornel@black-hole.co.uk) wrote:
> The best I have gotten out of it is a 1600x2400 image of an A4 page, after
> tweaking to compensate for the 'dead time' of the gears the picture quality
> is very good. The drawback is that the A4 page at that resolution took 6
> hours to scan :o)


Hi!

Could you suggest the tweaking mechanism for the 'dead time' of gears.
I am facing similar situation with a plotter that I am trying to program on
RCX. The length of a lines drawn with motor moving for same time in opposite
directions is not the same. There is an ratio of 5:6 in the length of the
two lines.

Could you suggest how you toubleshoot it?

Maneesh



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  Re: PC <> RCX Communication?
 
(...) on (...) opposite (...) The solution I came up with was to measure the time it took the gear train to go from one direction - through it's dead zone - to biting in the other direction. Then whenever the gear train needs to switch direction, (...) (27 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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