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Re: Horodris the mech
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:24:15 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Brian Cooper wrote:
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I really like the leg design and gearing. Gears are like muscles for mecha.
The more gears, the more powerful the machine (appears to be). The spindly
arms could use a gear infusion to beef them up... But I know you haven’t made
a lot of armed robots (armed with limbs rather than big mech cannon). You are
into leg technology and it takes time to develop arm technology. But you
certainly have Sophie beat when it comes to thumbs. ;-)
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Ah-ha! Hear that Sophie! You’re going down, buddy! I got that supply of left
monkey arms coming in from BL, you best be sweating bullets now.
Thanks for the commentary on the arms. I was looking at that and the shoulder
had to go through a redesign to hold the arm in place. Making me realize that I
really aught to make the arms a little more techie if nothing else. I was
shooting for best size and lowest wieight on Horodris. I think for the next big
one, I’ll not concern myself with weight too much, since the legs can hold and
go for broke (or use every last gear I can get my paws on) where articulation is
concerned.
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As for the overall style, I like it but it’s hard to imagine what realistic
scenario would cause some corporation to fabricate such a piloted robot. It
looks like a backyard mechanic made it out of old robotic farm equipment in
the year 2070 to win a pumpkin chunking contest. But then this is “Horodris”
and not the “Chunkatron 3000” so it must have been built for more horrific
purposes and doesn’t fit into this scenario:
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It was actually developed by a commuting meglomaniac who got really, really sick
of rush hour traffic. It’s not pumpkins he chucks... it’s cars. The guy gets
to work reletively quickly now.
Mark
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| I really like the leg design and gearing. Gears are like muscles for mecha. The more gears, the more powerful the machine (appears to be). The spindly arms could use a gear infusion to beef them up... But I know you haven't made a lot of armed (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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