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Re: Newbie needs Help
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Date: 
Tue, 6 Jun 2006 19:49:05 GMT
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Dean Hystad wrote:

This may give your robot a big "OOOHHH" factor, but you will get a much bigger
return from playing around with the tow rope.  If it is legal,try to design
something that raises your end of the tow rope above your oponent's end.  Then
the act of pulling exerts a downward force on your robot and an upward force
on your opponent's.

Dean,

Thank you for your response. I am going to get on with the tow rope suggestion
right away.
You might like to know that your 2002 'Building Lego Robots for FLL' guide
was the first thing that I read.

Raj



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  Re: Newbie needs Help
 
You only need one rotation sensor and some fancy gearing. Using a differential in a way similar to the "South Facing Cart" or the stearing drive in a dual differential setup, you could directly measure the amount of spin between a driven wheel and (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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