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Re: Adaptor(s)
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lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic
Date: 
Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:07:31 GMT
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I would love a way to mount other mCUs, as the 3 RCXs, and batteries
to support them to get some of the same functionality can be very
heavy and bulky.

I agree with a standard electrical connector - I actually had an idea
for a more advanced Lego electrical connector anyway. How about Lego
providing a standard module for connecting active sensors to the RCX -
one that contains the Diode Bridge and filter circuits?

What I also always wanted (not quite non-Lego), was large panels
(studless - pin mounted), preferrable made of sheet aluminium with the
studless connectors around the edges - made in standard Lego
dimensions. The sheet would be thin-ish, and then bulked up for the
connectors. This would allow me to use it in far more interesting
ways, especially if curves and such were also provided - quarter turns
for example, with a standard Lego unit radius...

--
Danny Staple MBCS
OrionRobots
http://orionrobots.co.uk
(Full contact details available through website)

On 24/11/05, Lane <Steve> wrote:
> If you could have an adaptor to connect A non-Lego item to Lego what would you
> have?
> 
> At the moment I'd like a device that connects Lego wires to standard
> electrical
> wire. Something like an electric brick with one of those connectors you get on
> cheap hi-fi's where a spring loaded button allows you to insert the bare end
> of
> a wire.
> 
> I'd also like a camera mounting. It would have a metal screw on the top to fit
> into the standard receptacle on the underside of a camera, a vertical piece
> supporting it and some technic connector pins coming out at right angles so
> you
> could connect it.
> 
> I'm thinking of maybe constructing something out of one of those device's that
> grip onto a desk and allow you to attach your camera. Has anyone done anything
> like this?
> 
> Steve
> 



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  Re: Adaptor(s)
 
(...) I'm not sure I understand - what would that gain you? Since the standard LEGO sensors have that circuitry built in, and if you put it in a seperate unit all you're doing is moving the circuitry from the sensor itself to a second enclosure. (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
  Re: Adaptor(s)
 
Danny, and others, Try (URL) especially (URL) I think that might be what you are looking for, or at least close. (...) ___...___ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 (URL) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Adaptor(s)
 
If you could have an adaptor to connect A non-Lego item to Lego what would you have? At the moment I'd like a device that connects Lego wires to standard electrical wire. Something like an electric brick with one of those connectors you get on cheap (...) (21 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)

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