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Re: Tripod Design...
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:33:34 GMT
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Pete Hardie <pete.hardie@dvsg.sciatl.comSAYNOTOSPAM>
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Ben Kimball wrote:
> 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.
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 that means a real problem with speed), or a
one-leg-up
gait, which would mean shifting center of balance over the 2 down legs.
The real problem IMHO is getting a good LEGO triangular base.
--
Pete Hardie | Goalie, DVSG Dart Team
Scientific Atlanta |
Digital Video Services Group |
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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