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Re: Moving up in the world...
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:19:58 GMT
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Martin <MARTIN@MEDIAX.nospamCOM>
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Julian Gomez wrote:

> on 12/21/00 06:15, Hardison, Leif at lhardison@comversens.com wrote:
> 
> > My latest challenge to myself has been to explore the upward movement
> > possibilities of a Lego Mindstorms robot.  I'm curious if others on this
> > list have built any robots that climb or have some type of movement that
> > sticks out from the trend of roll around on the ground.  Two challenges my
> 
> At the Mindstorms Mall Tour 2000 they showed off a robot which climbs up and
> down a wall. The wall has to be built for the purpose, with holes at a
> certain spacing. The robot can be done with the parts in one RIS box,
> although there was one brick type I'm not sure I've seen before. They said
> the plans will be on the website within a month, although the guy I talked
> to wasn't sure how they'd make the program available.

That reminds me, the tech museum (in San Jose) is doing a contest where
you build a robot which goes up a small wall which is curved at the
bottom. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find anything on it at their
poorly-designed website, www.thetech.com.



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  Re: Moving up in the world...
 
(...) At the Mindstorms Mall Tour 2000 they showed off a robot which climbs up and down a wall. The wall has to be built for the purpose, with holes at a certain spacing. The robot can be done with the parts in one RIS box, although there was one (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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