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| Hi, I am trying to built my first robot and I have a question. I tried to make my robot "to be" move straight. (I am using the servos routines from the HB web page.) When I start the servos the robot just goes in circles not straight. I try flipping (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| I think you're talking about a game called Crossfire (it was very popular about 6 years ago), and there are still quite a few floating around (though I don't think they make it anymore), you should try some garage sales. BTW, the reason I know this (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hello, I'm most likely going to use the Handy Board for a robotics project I'm working on, but I have one concern. I don't know if 32K is enough memory for my control program. We are building several small robots to simulate under-water mine (...) (27 years ago, 29-Sep-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Mar, I've never seen a caster as small as you describe, but I have seen something that might work. I use a "captured ball" bearing instead of a caster on my robot, and it works really well (no swivelling needed to change direction). I got these at a (...) (27 years ago, 29-Sep-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) You could try opening up any personal cassette player. I have used several of these. They have a rubber wheel (capstan head, pinch wheel I don't know what their proper name is) on a very convenient metal bracket. Most of the ones I have seen (...) (27 years ago, 29-Sep-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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