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Alright, I've made a 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10 way incremental bolt, geometrically correct down to each angle, with both keys and keyswitches on every incremental thing. lol.
I can't think of a way to make a 7-way bolt though because seven doesn't go into three hundred and sixty evenly :eek:
@ Tamland
My post with pics got a bit too long, so I made a new thread on it so I will not clutter this one (since this thread is really about your object)
The thread is in object showcase under the title "Incremental Piston", but here is a link if you come here first:
http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21087
I have disovered that you are not the inventor and that hibsi91 made this before you :eek:
:eek: Really?????? Is that true Tamland? Or Hibsi?
@ Incinerator22:
#1: Nice! no a 7-step is pretty difficult:D
#2: Oh really? Thought that I looked under every rock to find if someone else had done this.. Do you have some links to his contraption? Because when I started this (ages ago) I was really trying to find if someone else has made this...
If he was first HE ofcourse should get the credit! But I should atleast get some credit for showing you all! :D
Well, you were the first to showcase it so you win :p
His were for calculators though. But, since Kernel's tap-grab and Tamland's bolt have already been made my drone has little competition left in the invention contest.
XD
is that what all this you arent the inventor stuff is about? 750 exp?
if we are doing that then yours isnt exactly revolutionary
Na-ah! lol. But it controls a wicked drone! XD
but it isnt exactly fair. both me and tamland thought we invented it
@ Incinerator22:
I guess that you are saying that he's using a "incremental bolt" in his calculator level, right?
But as far as i know he is not. He is simple having a bolt hooked up to a 3-way-switch. If he was using an "incremental bolt" you wouldn't be able to get in a state that is between 2 numbers.. i.e. no number is emitted. (You can try this yourself by just dabbing one of the 3-way-switches).
Another fact: His calculator level is published waay later (the date slipped of my mind) then the first level that I used my Incremental Bolt in (Simple Animation, published Sep 8, Last edited Sep 8).
So as far as I know I'm still the inventor of the "Incremental Bolt". :D
Side-note: I dont really care about winning the inventions contest.. I just thought that it was a good way of showing of my solution to a bigger audience... Even though i wouldn't mind winning it *blink blink* :D (I'm actually pretty competetive)
Side-note2: I think that it is good that you are questioning the inventor of different contraptions and solution, but sometimes it comes off as childish to be honest..
Hey now, I'm (mostly) kidding. lol.
He told me he made one for his calculator about five months ago but never used it, but he doesn't want to make a ruckus out of it.
Yeah, he doesn't really care either way. He showed it to me... It was basically a 10 way bolt, which had keys arranged in a certain way to light up a row of lights. It was really genius actually. I may go back to my clock level and do something like that. It would negate the purpose of having all those OR gates. I'll try it out tomorrow and post some pics of it.
I'm not sure, but I think he was using a 3-way switch. Or not. I can't remember.
:)
As I read through my post again right now I can see that it may look a little harsh, which was not the purpose of it... So hard to convey tone in a forum posts:D
What i was trying to do was to just stating some facts...
And I must say that hibbsi91's calculator is awesome! though i'm still questioning if he is using an incremental bolt.. just from when i was playing his level its really weird if you could get in a "middle" state if it wasn't a just a bolt hooked up to a threeway switch..
Or maybe he has come up with someother really awesome solution! would love to see what comph can find:)
BTW: comph: My stacked bolt is quite unstable again ;) the only difference is that i captured it and pasted it again.. Weeird....
No, Hibbsi doesn't use the incremental bolt in his calculator, but he was going to initially.
Weird about the instability. I have yet to have that happen. Perhaps try making it bigger?
Does anyone have any ideas about a 7-way incremental bolt? It can go around about three times before going too far off track. I think I could just put a winch at the top so it resets every rotation but I'm not sure if that'd work well.
So since you all are geniuses, lol, any ideas?
Hmm.. you could fool it by using 8mag-switches and you have the 8th just run the wheel one more time, making it skip it... the only simple solution i have for you..
This could be done with a simple OR if you only have one direction..
If you use multidirectional you will have to beef it up with one more OR and two AND's.. atleast:D
if you want some schematics or something, i could probably put something together:)
Or it could be rounded up?
You would get disalignment after one revolution, Kernel. It would fall 3 degrees short if you used a speed of 51.
oh im sorry i didnt know, i havent been able to look at this like i would want to
I've been thinking of ways to construct a boss that moves in an interesting way. Mounted on a piston, the boss would have a mag key (1) on it which would activate a one-shot mag switch (2). This would in turn trigger a flipper-motion piston, pulling another mag switch (2) away from its mag key (2). Mag key 2 is connected to main boss piston, so whenever boss passes mag switch 1 the movement is deactivated for the amount of time it takes for the flipper piston to reset.
Applying this to incremental bolts, then, you would use comphy's idea a few pages back with the mag keys on the wheel (1) to activate the flipper piston. Mag key 2 would then turn on (or off, if you prefer) the motor bolt. Whilst this implementation isn't useful for accurate, split-second, pinpoint positioning of the motor bolt, it allows for the bolt to turn by different amounts each time it is activated - and it is easily customisable; all you have to do is move the mag keys (1) on the wheel so that the mag switch (1) is activated at different times.