Re: UPDATED Re: spinner/tilter amusement ride MOC

Very cool!!!

What other rides are you going to make?

> From: "travis" <phree@xxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: harvard
> Reply-To: "travis" <phree@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 06:16:48 GMT
> To: lego-robotics@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: UPDATED Re: spinner/tilter amusement ride MOC
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> thought those of us with patience or broadband might be interested in seeing
> some video of the ride in action.
> 
> i've completed the programming to include the classic circus music.  Its
> really fun now.
> 
> lowerd resolution
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/elkane/Town/Spinner/spinner_lowres.mov
> 
> full resolution (suggested and worth the wait)
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/elkane/Town/Spinner/spinner.mov
> 
> enjoy
> 
> let me know what you think now that you can see it in action.
> 
> -tk
> 
> "travis" <phree@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:HDMLAr.22M4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> hey guys,
>> 
>> I've been dying to begin my first contribution to the NELUG group's train
>> layout and finally I have something to offer for the fairground portion of
>> the town.  After seeing the amusement rides at the last meeting, and
> talking
>> about roller coaster design all the way home from the meeting last fall, I
>> have been dreaming of building a G-force style, spinning and tilting ride.
>> Originally I planned on building a smaller radius ride where it spin the
>> mini-figs into the wall and the floor drops out.  Hover it seemed that was
> a
>> little too much to handle for my first amusement ride.  Instead I went
> with
>> the classic spinning tilter.  I'm glad to announce that the earliest
> version
>> is near completion.
>> 
>> here are the pics
>> 
>> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=41008
>> 
>> 
>> I'm going to spend the rest of the night programming the brick to make the
>> movements  clockwork.  As it is the mini-fig riders only occasionally fall
>> over when the ride spins down at the bottom of the cycle.  Most of the
> time
>> the mini-fig feet are actually driven down onto the last set of pegs
> before
>> the "exterior fence" part of the ride and stay standing even when the ride
>> stops.
>> 
>> I'm going to hold off on the stairway  up to the ride and stuff until its
>> fully programmed and running.  I also plan on trimming it off with some
> sort
>> of light looking things that will make it more carnival like.
>> 
>> Hope you like it.  Let me know what you think!
>> 
>> -tk
>> 
>> PS... when is the next NELUG meeting?
>> 
>> 
>> 
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