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After taking apart a micromotor (red motor) that wasn't working, I found out that the reason why they sometimes get stuck is because the internal gears use such small plastic teeth that sometimes they don't mesh well. Plus, since they are plastic it (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi there, Has anybody list of universities where the MindStorm is used? I`m looking specially for research areas, where RCX (or RCXes) are used as part of complex system (and this is controlled by neural net, evol. alg. or something like this). I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Don't know about lists, but we've (here at Duke) used the mindstorms to do some basic Q-learning. No web page yet, but one might appear over Christmas break. Is there anything in particular you want to know about? (...) Again, not that I'm (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Motor not turning - help please
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(...) Depending on the motor specs, stalling a motor isn't necessarily a bad thing for the motor. One of the favorite switch machines for model railroads (the device that you connect to the turnouts to move them) uses a stall motor for example. You (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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