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Re: an idea, can someone tell me if this is possible/been done before/etc?
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Mon, 1 Dec 2003 02:34:24 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@SPAMCAKEairmail.net>
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Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> 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?
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 kind of flexibility.
I'd suggest using one RCX per leg!
Realistically, this would be very difficult.
The issue of how the spider in WWW was controlled was of course quietly
ignored...but that's not something you could avoid. Providing a remote
controller to drive all those legs in useful ways would be an ergonomic
nightmare...trying to make the robot sense it's environment well enough
to climb over things would be a major technical challenge.
I suggest you start off by looking at the Mibo project (Like the AIBO
robotic dog - but done in Lego).
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