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Re: Some help or advice requested
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:02:30 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
In lugnet.technic, Owen Dive wrote:
In lugnet.technic, Kevin L. Clague wrote:

<snip>

Hmm, an interesting solution.
Presuming you can do that, then all
you have to do is somehow get the weight back to the starting position.

But there's the rub! I'm afraid I can't see an obvious way to do that, given
that the weight will need to be positioned quite precisely. I will play around
with it, though, and see what I can come up with.

I've got a slightly different solution, where the tray tips an inverted pendulum
right and left.  The pendulum's momentum/weight flip the polarity reverser.

The tri-blade bounds the inverted pendulum's swing.

The first three steps represent the basic inverted pendulum.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4312628

Direct access:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kclague/fun/fun_page_1.png


The yellow beam added in step 2 is the inverted pendulum (on which you can add
your favorite weight attachment).

In step 4, you can limit the range of motion of the inverted pendulum (if you
wish).  Other limiting devices (8T gear, 1/2 bushing, etc.) can be used instead.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4312629

Direct access:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kclague/fun/fun_page_2.png


I don't know if the tray's slow progression right and left can eventually tip
the inverted pendulum past center (it depends on if the inverted pendulum can
reverse the tray's travel)..... but if it can it might help.

Kevin

Kevin



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(...) A nice solution, but I doubt very much if my tray could push the pendulum upright (especially since the total angular travel would be the limited movement of the pendulum _plus_ the angle that the tri-blades had rotated). However, for (...) (14 years ago, 27-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)

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(...) <snip> (...) I've got a slightly different solution, where the tray tips an inverted pendulum right and left. The pendulum's momentum/weight flip the polarity reverser. The tri-blade bounds the inverted pendulum's swing. The first three steps (...) (14 years ago, 26-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)

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