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Re: Mr. Jeeves
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lugnet.build.mecha
Date: 
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:29:07 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, danny staple <orionrobots@gmail.com> wrote:

Now all we need to do is figure out hwo to add motors and get a couple
of RCX's on board, and you too can have a lego aibo...

Getting the motors installed is not too difficult. I'd like to try it sometime.
When I built the Mana Cat, I was kind of going for that.

But the legs were built wrong and the only motorized elements were the Mana.
A fully articulated quadra-ped would be nice. I need more z40's.

It looks good eric. What peices are you using at the ankle joints?
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=710824 - I can see
prop housings, and some kind of ball peice in them - I think - and i
am not quite sure what I am looking at there.. They are different
again on Mr Jeeves. Peeron links please!

Oh no! Not the parts refs!
I'm not that good with that, hahahaha, let's see.

The ankles are ball sockets from Star Wars sets. The yellow parts that surround
the ankles are from Aquazone sets?

Or was that from the Yellow Technic Sub?

I'll have to go look them up. I wish I had a set in gray for Mr. Jeeves.
While planning the build, I knew these were parts I could not add.

Glad you liked the build. Thank you!

e

Danny
--
Danny Staple MBCS
OrionRobots
http://orionrobots.co.uk
(Full contact details available through website)




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  Re: Mr. Jeeves
 
Hi, When you say mana cat - were you using the bionacle "manas" parts? Or was it just a name? I had some fun trying to incorporate them into a robot as extra powered motors for the RCX. The joints are all posable with worm gears arent they? I had a (...) (19 years ago, 20-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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  Re: Mr. Jeeves
 
Now all we need to do is figure out hwo to add motors and get a couple of RCX's on board, and you too can have a lego aibo... It looks good eric. What peices are you using at the ankle joints? (URL) - I can see prop housings, and some kind of ball (...) (19 years ago, 19-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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