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Re: Introducing Jump-O-Bot
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:39:45 GMT
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"Jim Choate" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> ha scritto:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Miguel Agullo wrote:
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> > Dear all,
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> > One of the unsolved challenges posed by the authors of the very fine
> > "Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms" is to construct a robot that • propels
> > itself jumping, rather than walking on legs or rolling on wheels.
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> Then that author is incorrect. There were Lego based jumping robots at
> several of the Robofests put on here in Austin back in the early half of
> the 90's. At least one of them was built along the lines of 'Spring
> Turkey'. They used the old Technics sets as a base. You might want to
> contact the Austin Robot Group (Tell Don and co. howdy please) for more
> info.
Well, to be precise, in our book we didn't write that nobody was able to
build a jumping robot. We simply stated that we tried but didn't succeed :-)
And, to be honest, I admit we didn't perform an exhaustive research on the
net to see if anybody else had been able to solve the problem. I'm glad to
hear that it's possible, and I like Miguel's design very much.
Mario
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| For what is worth, My original intention was indeed to thank Mario for the complimentary copy of his book by creating a new robot inspired by it. Once I came up with a "new" type of robot, a secondary intention was to promote further investigation (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Then that author is incorrect. There were Lego based jumping robots at several of the Robofests put on here in Austin back in the early half of the 90's. At least one of them was built along the lines of 'Spring Turkey'. They used the old (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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