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RE: Shuffle bot
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Sat, 14 Dec 2002 21:55:43 GMT
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From watching the son of whyachi and looking at the specs page i think:
1. the concept that you are looking at is different from the actual
locomotion of SOW
2. it isn't going ot be easy to reproduce this in Lego
3. I found something else to work on
it's not so much a stomp bot, but the sliders work in a similar manner.
Although, not in respect to the other side. The construction of the
locomotion on either side is possibly such that there are three main
components of the drive. The two "outside" rails are in direct synch with
the middle one being 180 degrees out of phase from the other two. this is
similar to the standard walking hexapod that was really popular for a while.
(see mushi-mushi at www.mindstorms.com) from watching this great bot on TV
the raise is very slight which is what is going to make this hard to
reproduce in lego. it's probably something like 1/16" or less, thus the
shuffling action. plus the "rails" are slippery (?), the image shows
something of a white plastic that looks similar to polyeurethlyene (sp?)
which is pretty slippery. the first season that it competed you can see it
sorta slide around the floor when it was making turns and stopping.
although this was good for the competition due to it's weapon, this is going
to be bad for control.
anyways, i think that this is going to be a really good use for the studless
beams due to their friction coefficient and shape.
so there is my opinion but it may be wrong.
m.
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