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Re: Biggest lego wheel?
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Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:26:48 GMT
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Possibly you mean this site?
http://www.magneticpie.com/LEGO/features/roverWheels/roverWheelsHome.html
build-your-own lego wheels.
Dan Lauber
"chris" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message
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> if the goal is to climb stairs, i remember seeing some designs that manage
> to function like larger wheels than they are. i can't find the links, • maybe
> someone remembers where.
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> was it lobster bot or something like that ? it used canterlever arms or
> bogeys, to allow smaller wheels to rotate around a larger radius than • their
> own. maybe it was a version of the mars rover.
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> but three long arms set at 120 degrees from each other, with small powered
> wheels at the ends become larger radius 'wheels'. i' sure i'm confusing
> two robot designs. there's a way to power both the small wheels and the
> arms, so they lift the robot up and over.
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> but also, tracks can be configured to catch the lip of the next step and
> pull the robot up.
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> but, none of this helps if you have to use large wheels. but something to
> consider if you have the flexibility in design.
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> chris brenizer
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Reddy" <mreddy@glam.ac.uk>
> To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 4:23 AM
> Subject: Biggest lego wheel?
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>
> What is the biggest lego technic wheel currently available? I have some
> students
> building a stair climber and they want to use BIG wheels in their design.
>
>
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| (...) Found that thanks. I showed it to some of the students, who you may or may not know were tasked with building a Lego Mindstorms robot to travers a stepped bridge in Pontypridd, South Wales. The brige is several hundred years old, has a rough (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| if the goal is to climb stairs, i remember seeing some designs that manage to function like larger wheels than they are. i can't find the links, maybe someone remembers where. was it lobster bot or something like that ? it used canterlever arms or (...) (23 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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