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Subject: 
four legged walker
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Date: 
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 18:30:48 GMT
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has anyone made a four legged walker that can walk round corners yet?  I
have been experimenting with my cats, to see how they do it, but is looks
incredibly compex. I even had my girlfriend wallking up and down the floor,
to see how two legged walkers negotiate corners, but I can't seem to
reproduce it with lego.



Dave.



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  Re: four legged walker
 
To get a really good idea, examine skeletal and muscular structures of animals. All animal limbs use ball & socket joints. This can be reproduced in lego. To simulate muscles, the best way is to use the Flex system. Study the movements of a dog or (...) (26 years ago, 7-Nov-98, to lugnet.build)
  Re: four legged walker
 
(...) Do you mean simple steering, or something ever more advanced? You can probably achieve steering by articulating the body, between the two pairs of legs. Fredrik (26 years ago, 7-Nov-98, to lugnet.build)

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