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Activate de-lurk and engage..... I got a RIS recently and am having great fun with it. I am working with the tank tread robot from the manual trying out the line following challenge. What I find is that the bot will move nicely forward and bog down (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) have you tried upping the output power on the motor by 1 on the turn (...) i don't think long. The Baum book highly recommends getting rechargeables. (...) maybe, but probably not. i found the same problem. Again, Baum's book (somewhere) (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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From: "Jeff Canar" <j_canar@yahoo.com> (...) instructions, (...) between (...) programmed (...) Information on a mechanical solution to this problem can be found at (URL) It uses two differentials to build a mechanical adder/subtractor. That said, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) If you're talking about the tank treads, those scrub a lot when trying to turn in place. A line following bot would probably be easier to build with one of the alternate wheelsets (and I don't mean the little feet!). (...) Depends. If I'm just (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Remember that with the standard software, the 'stopped' motor is actually shorted out, and breaking. Treads use quite a lot of power when turning this way (the front and back are actually being scrubbed sideways, and the power for this comes (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I had a similar experience with my new Mindstorms kit, and discovered (by using the RCXCC "Direct Control" options) that, about 10% of the time, one motor failed to respond to start commands (although, if you gave the shaft a starting twist (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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