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The others have mentioned the white gear is a clutch gear. I thought I'd throw out a practical use to put it into perspective: it's ideal for a motorized gripper, where you'd want the grip to have some resistance as it closes, but not so much torque (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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(...) The white gears are a slip gear. To explain it put one on a motor and make it spin. Now grab on to it and it will stop and turn inside. You will notice that there is still a little tension on the gear. It's great for low torque projects where (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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If a gear or wheel gets bound, the clutch in the clutch gear slips and protects the motor form burning out. Dennis (...) -- Dennis Williamson - Certified Y2K Complacent Bad News: The next millenium starts on a Monday. Good News: You get the day off. (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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I have two questions about my new scout: 1) What are the white gears used for? 2) Can anyone point me to sites that feature models, etc for this set? Thanks, Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services www.crosswinds.net/~hokie (26 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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Can I make program for the Scout using spirit.ocx? If yes, why it's not included in the SDK package? Thanks Ricardo (26 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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| | Re: Scout Can use 6 touch sensors?
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(...) Why go though all that trouble if it's useless? I find that hard to believe... (...) Yes, I've made a resistor pad myself for the RCX. (URL) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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(...) The color coded sensors are used in CyberMaster. Code Pilot uses the normal sensor. (...) Yes, it is a resister, connected in parallel with the switch, so you can read the resistance value when the switch is not pressed. See (URL) for more (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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Forgive me if I've missed this here before, I've recently acquired a Scout system and have been reading the SDK PDF and found the following: "The Scout has two external input ports to which touch sensors can be attached. The special colour-coded ID (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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(...) Believe it or not, the LEGO Mindstorms web site has a lot of great info about both the Scout and the RCX. Go to the Mindstorms site at (URL) and follow the links to the Scout SDK. The SDK includes an Adobe Acrobat .PDF file that gives a (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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Does someone have any info about the Scout hardware? Thanxs Ricardo (26 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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(...) Sounds like it. Phone TLG (S@H) for a fast replacement. Dean (26 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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Anyone had any motor problems with their Discovery set? The other night one of my motors refused to run every now and then(motor was just connected to the scout). If I gently rotated the motor shaft by hand it would suddenly start working.... This (...) (26 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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(...) Hey, wow! It turns out that the thin portions of the FO cables are the same thickness (or virtually the same, for all practical purposes) as the inside components of LEGO TECHNIC Flex System cables! In other words, not only do they fit nicely (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics.microscout, lugnet.technic)
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An observation... It is well-documented that the Scout can communicate with the Micro Scout using its red-light emmiter. The optic fibers transmit light quite well for this purpose with one drawback - only one end of the fiber has a connector. I've (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics.microscout)
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| | NQC 2.1 in beta test (Scout support, fast firmware)
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NQC 2.1 b1 is available at (URL) two "big" features are fast firmware downloading (4x speed) and preliminary support for the Scout. Emphasis on "preliminary". It is enough to do some basic NQC stuff on the Scout, but most of the nifty Scout features (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.scout)
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(...) It's actually a five part trilogy, and there is also a weird short story published in one of the books written by the same author (Douglass Adams) Greg "That's my CAR!" Majewski (URL) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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I am finished finally with the XCam anywhere rover. I just need to document the setup on the web site...soon. Today I am moving all of the Legos and computers into a spare bedroom to prepare our house for a yearly xmas party...so maybe soon is a bit (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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(...) It is also 'generically' the title of the entire series, comprising a trilogy in four parts... Personally Marvin says it all. (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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| | Re: What is the scout?
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(...) The 'Scout', is the controller that comes with the Lego Robotics Discovery set, whereas the RCX, is the one that comes with the RIS. The units are very similar in size, but the Scout (I think) has only two inputs/outputs, against the RCX's (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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| | Byte Codes, Monitoring and Downloading
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I've corrected a couple mistakes in the byte codes and added some notes on how the ScoutTool program monitors the Scout. I also added a couple lines on how to download a program to the Scout. (URL) for Palm Pilot users: (URL) Kory (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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