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Re: Moving up in the world...
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:57:32 GMT
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Low" <stinglessbee@hotSPAMFREEmail.com>
To: <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com>; <lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: Moving up in the world...
In lugnet.robotics, Julian Gomez <jeg@polished-pixels.com> writes:
> 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
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> 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.
There is no way that the wall climber uses pieces from a single RIS. It uses
three motors, and four touch sensors. It also requires permanent
modification of some pieces, such as a 1*2 plate, and the hooking piece.
later,
David Drew
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| (...) Three of these robots are currently on display at the LEGO Action Show in the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney: (URL) . Sorry, I don't know anything useful about the mechanics or program. --DaveL (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.au)
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