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Subject: 
Re: 2001 Model
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:49:03 GMT
Original-From: 
John Barnes <barnes@sensors.com/AvoidSpam/>
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Olivier wrote:

"Improving" an official Lego model is a good way to keep them interesting
longer (to me at least...)


This is very true! I had all sorts of fun "improving" the four legged
walking mechanism
on the Darkside Developer thing. The way the instructions defined it, it
was much
too wobbly! With a little care redoing the key leg joints, it work a lot
better.

Of course, I am in a seemingly  eternal battle to build a two leg walker,
not humanoid
but more duck like - opposite knee function and short legs without such
huge feet
that it balances no matter what. But RCX controlled weight transfer
balancing is a lot
harder than it sounds. But you do learn a lot, and thus, my growing
repertoire of
leg joint tricks was applied to the darkside model quite easily.

JB



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