 | | Re: Monorail Max Mileage? —Sanjay D'Souza
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| | | Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) computation? I read somewhere that the curved was 36cm's long. With each stud being about 7.8mm (7.8mm x 32 = 250cm (same size as a straight track)), therefore 46 studs = 36 cms. Sanjay -- Millennium City @ (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | | | | Re: Monorail Max Mileage? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Well, the curved monorail tracks aren't actually perfect circle segments, because the stanchion holes in the middle don't fit into an irrational point on the lattice, but they're not so far deformed from a perfect circle as to give a value of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | Re: Monorail Max Mileage? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) Urrp, I misspoke. Not quite -- not the way the monorail engine reverses direction. It depends which way you place the engine onto the track -- the gold teeth on the motor on one side or the other of the rail. --Todd (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | Re: Monorail Max Mileage? —Nick Goetz
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| | | | I'd say forget the math and find the guy who did that elaborate pneumatics test with Mindstorms. He'd probably tell you to create a car that housed the RIS and hook the rotation sensor up to a wheel that rested on the track. Then you could keep (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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