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Brian,
Brian Davis wrote:
> And the video on YouTube, with my son standing in for Steve's legs:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpMrgDCXlc
Absolutely awesome!
/Matthias (deeply impressed)
ps Now I'm going to wait day and night for the LDraw file ;-) (give them
an inch and they will take a mile...)
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In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Matthias Paul Scholz wrote:
> Brian,
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> Brian Davis wrote:
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> > And the video on YouTube, with my son standing in for Steve's legs:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpMrgDCXlc
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> Absolutely awesome!
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> /Matthias (deeply impressed)
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> ps Now I'm going to wait day and night for the LDraw file ;-) (give them
> an inch and they will take a mile...)
Same comments and feelings here ;o)
Brian, it would help to reproduce your outstanding design (and maybe CAD it!) if
you could provide higher resolutions photographs somewhere...
Philo
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In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Brian Davis wrote:
> And the video on YouTube, with my son standing in for Steve's legs:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpMrgDCXlc
I say we just award the prize now. Very wonderfully done, Brian. The kids will
go nuts when they see the video!
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In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
> Brian, it would help to reproduce your outstanding
> design (and maybe CAD it!) if you could provide higher
> resolutions photographs somewhere...
Thank you both Matthias & Philo (and others!). give them an inch indeed...
first, I really feel i need to apologize for *not* CADing this up. I've tried to
CAD stuff, but the combination of my chosen platform (Mac) coupled with where I
like using my free time (building, not CADing) and furthermore the complexity of
the designs I'm actually interested in documenting (like this), have conspired
to make me a lazy slob who's not documented things in the "normal" format.
Somebody, please help me, or brow-beat me some more, and I'll try to rise to
that standard sometime.
As to higher-res photos, agreed: these were actually reduced for BS, and I've
got higher-res ones availible. I probably need to do an even *better* job
documented the construction, not just the parts but the sequence: for studless
constructions like this, I sometimes feel like I'm making one of those "slide
the pieces to assemble the cube" wooden puzzle. For instance, one of those
images I had to use my fingers to point out three red (in that "step") pins that
need to be pulled to remove a long white composite beam that is critical to
holding the two shoulders on... but is actually partially hidden within the
shoulders on the ends.
Where do you guys want more/better photos? What needs improved documentation?
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Brian Davis
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In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Rafe Donahue wrote:
> I say we just award the prize now.
Ha! Methinks you underestimate the talents (not to mention obsession) of the
other folks in this event <grin>. Seriously, thanks for the kind words, and I'm
very happy with it, but now the rest of you know yet another way to try to do
it. Go for it: somebody make a robot that will drive over LNE. Incidently, for
RC combat this thing is fun too. Just put a blade or two on the front flippers
and it is even more fun (although I need to shift the CoM... perhaps
dynamicly... dang, this thing really does need more than three motors I fear).
> The kids will go nuts when they see the video!
Thanks. I took it to a public "science night" a couple days ago, but with faster
gearing... it ran basicly continuously for 2.5 hours, driving over kids, feet,
LEGO, and anything else they could manage. And the minifig never fell out :-).
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Brian Davis
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