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Re: Building my first Mecha with an RCX - advice please?
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Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:26:30 GMT
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Edward,


In lugnet.build.mecha, Edward Cox writes:

Does anyone have some advice they can offer? Should a Mech use bi-ped
walking or wheels?

Are there some sites around that provide some building instructions to
assist me?

You may find this site of interest:

http://www.geocities.com/technicpuppy/lblinks.html

The site's dedicated to RCX-driven bi-peds of all shapes and sizes. Some are
rather humanoid, which is what I suspect you want, but some are more tank-like,
which, to my mind, anyway, still qualify as "mecha".

A functioning sel-balancing bi-ped is a real challenge-- I'm currently working
on only my second one, and it's taking me months! Good luck!

stuart



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  Building my first Mecha with an RCX - advice please?
 
Hi, I am about to embark on building my very first Mecha and intend to incorporate the Mindstorms RCX unit (with motors/light sensor/etc.). Does anyone have some advice they can offer? Should a Mech use bi-ped walking or wheels? Are there some sites (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jul-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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