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Re: My Pictures From Brickfest
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Date: 
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 02:06:07 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Thomas Avery writes:
In lugnet.technic, Paul Hanson writes:
I saw someone else's photo of this the other day and was mightily intrigued.
Looks very cool - but what the heck is it?
http://www.texbrick.com/bf2002/bf02_dougc_3.jpg

That is Doug Carlson's Delta Bot. It wasn't fully completed, but he brought
it along to show.

He explained it to me, and if I remeber correctly, I believe it's a device
for accurately positioning something in 3-dimensional space. I'd better
leave the detailed description to him since I'm not familiar with this type
of stuff.


The way Doug explained it, it's the beginning of a pick and place machine.
What you see in the pic is accurate in the X and Y, he hasn't done the Z
yet.  The structure is surprisingly rigid.  Almost no flexture.

-Rob.



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  Re: My Pictures From Brickfest
 
(...) That's because it's a truss :-) A truss is a structure composed of triangles (very simple explaination). A truss is very stiff because its geometry causes all members to be loaded in compression or tension. Theoretically, the members see no (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: My Pictures From Brickfest
 
"Rob Doucette" <lego@nospam.doucettenet.com> wrote in message news:Gzu367.59n@lugnet.com... (...) device (...) type (...) That's not really right - there are no typical "X Y Z" axis designations when dealing with this style of robot. The robot Doug (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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