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| Last night I had a breakthrough with mini robot head design. I was trying variations of the basic MegaTurtle (URL) and Nova (URL) head design. And I came up with this: (URL) I thought the reversed Grevious head looked pretty cool...but it needed an (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Robot Head Evolution
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| In lugnet.build.mecha, Peter Reid wrote: SNIP (URL) (...) SNIP (...) snip (...) SNIP (...) Very cool; I wonder if a small technic blue/yellow rubber band attached with a 'figure 8' twist, OR a technic cuttable soft flexible pneumatic tube affixed (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Robot Head Evolution
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| (...) Using a rubber band is a really good idea, which I may have to borrow from you, Jeff. There is some slackness in the string, and it needs to be pulled back against the curve of the face every so often. I'm confident I can 'train' the string (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) This looks so cool. You're the small mecha genius. Don't get it wrong, small is the attribute for mecha! It's really hard to do such fantastic looking work at this size! I love your work (URL) Marco> (18 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Robot Head Evolution
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| (...) Thank you, Marco! I plan to make a few changes to this (as yet unnamed) robot over the next few weekends. There are still a few areas I can improve, I think. I'll post a proper announcement when it's complete. Pete (18 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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