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Re: Tripod Design...
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 5 Jan 1999 07:26:01 GMT
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Ben Kimball <ben@NOMORESPAMfusiondev.com>
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> Is anyone working on such a design that will walk around with three
> legs? I'm trying to make one just with the MindStorms peices (and some
> from my good ol' Search Sub). Please send any ideas, etc to me!
Ooh, there were some very cool old scifi books about conical aliens with
three legs. In the novels (whose names and author I cannot recall), they
sort of rolled, canted up at an angle. This would require some pretty
serious balancing. Maybe a flywheel/gyro. Wow, that'd be cool.
It could always just hop... ;)
Cheers!
Ben
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| (...) Probably the White Mountain trilogy, made into _Tripods_ by the BBC. Cool books, and a surprisingly mature juvenile book series, IIRC. For a tripod walker, you'd probably need to either to do a spinning walk, where only one leg is down, (but (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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