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Oh I see. thanx....good luck!
In lugnet.robotics, David Schilling writes:
> In lugnet.robotics, Andy Gombos writes:
> > Looks like a form of the Killough platform on Leo Dorst's site. The rods appear
> > to provide a 'shell' to keep the blue base from getting stuck in the v area.
> > There are movies of the motion on Doug Carlson's site. I do not have any links
> > handy, but they should be on 'the website'. :) Anybody have any more info than
> > this?
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > Eric Sophie wrote:
> >
> > > This has an unusual drive-train, I'd like to see what i does and how it moves.
> > >
> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=39795
>
> Wow, I never thought I'd see my name in a subject line!
>
> I built the Killough platform for the March SMART meeting mini-challenge.
> (SMART is the Seattle Mindstorms and Robotic Techies group.)
>
> The basic idea was to build a robot to wander around a table, without
> falling off, and stop beside a heavy object.
> (See http://news.lugnet.com/org/us/smart/?n=15 and a follow-on note
> http://news.lugnet.com/org/us/smart/?n=23 for details about the meeting and
> mini-challenge)
>
> I've wanted to build a Killough platform for a long time, and here was
> finally a reason to do so. The greatest challenge was keeping the robot on
> the table. I built the 'shell' to act as a one time, 360 degree touch
> sensor - it rests atop a light sensor, and when the robot runs into the
> heavy object, it is pushed off, thus changing significantly the light sensor
> reading, and the robot will stop.
>
> Sorry I don't have a movie of it working, (someone else just posted a
> reference to their page where they have a movie, my robot is very similar)
> but I will be posting further pictures and a more detailed description in
> the SMART group in the next few days.
>
> --
> David Schilling
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