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| I'm pleased to announce my latest pneumatic creature, an inchworm. Inchworm is much larger than an inch, but its body moves using a traveling wave like inchworms do. You can see the basic shape of my inchworm: (URL) is composed of 6 pneumatic (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| Doi! OMG - WOW! Must bring to Brick Fest. Must see IRL. Uggg, so cool! Really "Koogot", really. If you make the little Twins, I'll build the shell and we can have MOTHRA! Sorry, in rare form today. e (21 years ago, 6-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Nice concept to model in pneumatics. I'd love to see the MPG when you get it uploaded. I assume you implemented the compression with logic gates cascaded along the body. Brian (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I made the movies smaller and now they work. Here is the whole inchworm going through one cycle. (URL) is a close up of the compression part of the wave as it travels from the back of the inchworm to the front: (URL) my flight to Boston for (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| (...) natural when inching away. Now you just need to add steering :-) -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| i like this worm after my vacations i'll back to developing :) br pixel (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Thanks! I think the organic like movement is very enticing. It is what makes it my wife's favorite. (...) I've thought about that too, but nothings come to mind yet. (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Thanks! Yes. THis one is going to brickfest. The new form factor pneumatic switches found in 8455 helped a lot, because the mounting holes are not in line with the switch rotation point. (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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