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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, 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, (...) (17 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| Glad to have been inspiring rather than inspired this time... (...) Well... why not creating BI using the new LPub ;o) Philo (17 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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