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Re: New Mecha: The Cub
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:06:43 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Brian Cooper wrote:
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The angled feet work well. I’d like to see you make a foot that bends in the
middle, in addition to being angled, for that “standing on the balls of your
feet, about to run” look.
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Hmmm, that’s a tough one. Something to shoot for.
Wait,... do you mean different from bending at the heal and toe?
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Well, essentially I’d like to see a foot that allows for more extreme poses
while remaining stable. The monolithic flat footed style can only go so far.
The alternative is a foot that has articulation to mimic what toes do, not the
useless “this little piggy” part of the toes, but the part that’s more
embedded in the foot - the part you really stand on, when you stand on your
toes. This is the next frontier for large mecha feet.
I was thinking of making a foot that could split near the middle providing a
small forward contact pad while the rear lifted off the ground. This would
support extreme leg angles better than just bending at the ankle, and look
cool.
K
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Hello Brian,
if I got you right you’re talking about something like this?
| | This one is using a single rotational click hinge.
It was torne apart by the weight of the mecha I’m working on.
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| | So the second uses double ball joints.
The joints don’t break apart but they don’t hold the weight.
I had to add a break. Now it works for me.
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I hope this might be helpfull for your thoughts.
Marco
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| (...) Cool. Definitely better than a flat foot. That's exactly what I'm talking about, although for a supermassive mecha I'd need to have this toe joint be either worm gear controlled or have an adjustable strut of some kind that forms a triangle to (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Well, essentially I'd like to see a foot that allows for more extreme poses while remaining stable. The monolithic flat footed style can only go so far. The alternative is a foot that has articulation to mimic what toes do, not the useless (...) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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