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Subject:	an idea, can someone tell me if this is possible/been done before/etc?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics
Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2003 01:57:07 GMT
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Or, provide suggestions on how to do it? I saw Wild Wild West the other day and was looking at the giant spider robot and wondered if making such a "sipder" robot is possible with lego robotics? Would it be possible? Has anyone done it? Does anyone have any tips on how to do it? (I suspect one would probobly need more than one RCX to pull it off which means I cantr do it :)

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		Re: an idea, can someone tell me if this is possible/been done before/etc?
(...) Plenty of people have build eight legged walkers - that's not all that hard. However, the machine in WWW is supposedly very flexible and could climb near vertical cliff-faces, etc. You'd need at least two or three motors per leg to get that (...) (21 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: an idea, can someone tell me if this is possible/been done before/etc?
(...) Yes (...) Not really, if you start with a hexapod and break the legs down into two groups of three (you get stability that way) you should be able to do it with two outputs (one for start/stop the other for for/rev). As an aside, and a rather (...) (21 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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