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Re: Lego 9V motors work well?
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Fri, 13 Feb 1998 19:46:35 GMT
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Bob Avanzato <rla5@psuSPAMCAKE.edu>
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Hi Greg,
I have been using LEGO 9v motors for a few years and I am very pleased with
the results. I run freshman and sophomore engineering design and computer
science courses using LEGO kits and HB's. The motors are well worth the
price if you are integrating with LEGO. My students have built Nerf
basketball playing robots, a successful IEEE micromouse, and very successful
Trinity fire-fighting robots (including first place in 1997) using LEGO
motors. I used surplus DC motors in the past, but we encountered too many
problems including mounting/interfacing to LEGO, alignment, current demands,
etc. Good luck.
-bob
Bob Avanzato
Assoc. Prof. of Engineering
Penn State Abington
At 10:13 AM 2/13/98 -0700, Greg Starr wrote:
> What has been people's experience in using the Lego 9V motors with the
> Handyboard? I know they're overpriced, but they are easy to use...
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> We've used small RC car motors etc. in our Lego robot course in past years,
> but some students have been looking at the Lego motors and I promised them
> I'd see what I can find out. Thanks for any help.
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> --greg
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> * Greg Starr, Professor and Graduate Advisor *
> * Department of Mechanical Engineering ph (505) 277-6298 *
> * University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131 FAX 277-1571 *
> * email- starr@unm.edu WWW- http://pliers.unm.edu/~starr/ *
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| I'm curious how you went about securing the motors to your robots. I picked up a couple yesterday, and they do seem to be very good quality motors, but just sticking them on "the LEGO way" doesn't work too well. They keep ripping themselves loose (...) (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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