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I was inspired by Philo's pneumatic wheel and his ratio of 1 switch per piston.
http://news.lugnet.com/announce/moc/?n=3228
He's right, in that when I did my Inchworms they all used two switches per
piston, and he cut it to one.
I wondered how short I could make one of my inchworms and still have it move. I
cut down inchworm 3 down to 3 segments (four pairs of legs) and came up with
this three piston/three switch crawler:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kclague/Octomedius/hpim0063.jpg
The name Octomedius refers to the fact that it has eight legs and is made with
medium pistons (there are no large pistons made these days....)
There are a few similar pictures of Octomedius here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kclague/Octomedius
So, for those of you who have only a few pneumatic parts, you might try your
hand at recreating Octomedius.
PLMKWYT,
Kevin
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Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> I was inspired by Philo's pneumatic wheel and his ratio of 1 switch per piston.
>
> http://news.lugnet.com/announce/moc/?n=3228
>
> He's right, in that when I did my Inchworms they all used two switches per
> piston, and he cut it to one.
>
> I wondered how short I could make one of my inchworms and still have it move. I
> cut down inchworm 3 down to 3 segments (four pairs of legs) and came up with
> this three piston/three switch crawler:
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kclague/Octomedius/hpim0063.jpg
>
> The name Octomedius refers to the fact that it has eight legs and is made with
> medium pistons (there are no large pistons made these days....)
>
> There are a few similar pictures of Octomedius here:
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kclague/Octomedius
>
> So, for those of you who have only a few pneumatic parts, you might try your
> hand at recreating Octomedius.
>
> PLMKWYT,
>
> Kevin
Kevin,
First, I want to say its good to see you back and building.
Then, I wanted to say I like your inchworm 3; only to see you posted an
inchworm 4, and followed it up with Octomedius and something called
Bovinius Minimus.
I like them all, but the Octomedius seems to be the one that will
inspire me to open up my pneumatics drawer and try to replicate your work.
Great job.
any chance for a video? maybe posted to You tube?
:)
Chris
oh ya - PS - Merry Christmas.
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Glad to have been inspiring rather than inspired this time...
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> So, for those of you who have only a few pneumatic parts, you might try your
> hand at recreating Octomedius.
Well... why not creating BI using the new LPub ;o)
Philo
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