
354 Chapter 18 • Replicating Renowned Droids
Looking at the bottom of the robot, you can see the beam that supports the
pivoting wheel (Figure 18.6).
The head mounts a light sensor (Figure 18.7) that you’ll use to locate the
light source, and gets rotated through a pulley-belt worm-24t gearing system
(Figure 18.8).This is one of those cases where pulleys and belts help in transmit-
ting motion to a distant subsystem.A touch sensor detects the central position of
the head through the tip of a cam, with a system similar to the one described in
Chapter 14 about the steering assembly of a car.
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Figure 18.5 Side View
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