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| | | In article <01BE1EB9.D2166A60@o...slip.net>, Jason Cooper <robotman@slip.net> writes (...) Not if you are clever. See the spider on www.xs4all.nl/~sbolt/ (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Hexapod Walker —Linc Smith
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| | | | | Peter Hesketh wrote in message (...) There has got to be hundreds of little walkers in the desk drawers of every engineering Department of every University. Once you make it in Lego, we can talk clever! (1) You should probably start by beefing up (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO Hexapod Walker —Gavin Smyth
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| | | | | | Take a peek at (the rather crummy, I'm afraid) pictures at (URL) an insect thingy that works a bit like that. It's a bit bulky since it uses universal joints to make the leg rods "bend." Linc Smith wrote in message ... (...) However, I'd dispute the (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO Hexapod Walker —stephen p spackman
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| | | | | | | (...) Actually you could use the differential technique discussed before to measure their phase directly, if you're short of sensors (as one is...). stephen (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO Hexapod Walker —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | | (...) John Willoughby has made a different version of the same walking technique at (URL) uses only one degree of freedom, but using two motors, one for each side should be easy. Perhaps this construction is more rigid? Fredrik (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Hexapod Walker —Daniel Miller
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| | | | (...) This is a cool little beastie, but the slop in Lego gears might do it in if it were enlarged for our consumption. Two (possibly stupid) questions: 1. I can see how it can walk straight forward and turn in place, but what happens if you try to (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Hexapod Walker —Peter Hesketh
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| | | | In article <Pine.GSO.3.96.98120...52.23795A- 100000@expert.cc.purdue.edu>, Daniel Miller <danielmi@expert.cc.purdue.e du> writes (...) If it had only 6 legs and got out of synch there would be a time when only one leg each side was touching the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Hexapod Walker —Daniel Miller
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| | | | (...) With the music-wire legs of the original example, it would be possible to just put a stop in the way of the leg's downward travel, so for the bottom half of the circle the stop is bending the "thigh" upwards, resulting in the correct D-shape (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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