 | | Re: Make Your Own HiTechnic Style Radio Control? —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | (...) How does the motor behave? I'm no electronics expert but I think I followed your description. The best way for a system like this would be: 1) The stick on the transmitter is in it's center position = the LEGO motor is shut off. 2) The stick (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Make Your Own HiTechnic Style Radio Control? —Irvin Stafford
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| | | | (...) how (...) ideal (...) using (...) Tobbe, Your comments are right on. The way the servo card controls the Lego motor is as you described except that the circuit has so much "gain" that the motor is almost full ON when the stick is on either (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: Make Your Own HiTechnic Style Radio Control? —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | | | (...) DOH! Now I'm really embaressed :) Why didn't I think of that? It's so obviuos! And I've always been the black sheap of the family, prefering RC cars before planes (never owned a electric one though)... *sigh* (...) I have to research this (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: Make Your Own HiTechnic Style Radio Control? —Bob Kojima
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| | | | i'm not an RC expert nor do i have much electronics experience, but has anyone ever thought about using the circuit from a zipzaps type micro rc car to make an RC lego brick? according to this page: (URL) you can safely hook up 4 AA batteries to the (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: Make Your Own HiTechnic Style Radio Control? —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | | | (...) Interesting. The benefit is size and price, but the draw back is that you need several transmitters for more functions. Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: Make Your Own HiTechnic Style Radio Control? —Irvin Stafford
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| | | | (...) Bob, I am experienced with RC systems and have modified RC components to control Lego motors. (See: (URL) web page you mentioned that had techniques and instructions for converting the 'Micro Car' RC systems for use in a very light RC plane is (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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