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Unread 26-01-2011, 00:51
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Re: How to get the mini bot down

Have the minibot have an ejection system with a parachute. Its safe and its cool to have the bot just float down by itself.



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Originally Posted by JB987 View Post
But the challenge is how do you get it to come down at a reasonable speed if you are not using the NXT to reverse and lower the motor speed used to climb the tower because you are using the lightest, bare bones design for the climb and if you are geared such that you aren't going to backdrive with gravity's help? Assuming you have found that such ratios that allow backdrive increase likelihoold of stall conditions for the climb...
Now I am not an EE major or anything; but can't you use resistors to restrict the flow of electrons to the robot? So less electrons flow through, the slower it goes. Isn't that how it works?
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