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Re: How much weight can a LEGO chassis carry around?
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 9 Dec 2005 03:12:44 GMT
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steve <{sjbaker1@}NoMoreSpam{airmail.net}>
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Joe Strout wrote:
> So now I'm wondering whether it'd be at all feasible to build the chassis out of
> LEGO. The laptop weighs 5 or 6 pounds. I don't need it to move around in a
> particularly speedy manner, but faster than a turtle would be nice. I can use
> multiple motor controllers to drive more than 2 motors on a side, if that helps.
Well, you can build enormous and very strong structures out of Lego -
there are people who've built life-sized dinosaurs and such. With
enough Lego and careful construction, I have no doubt you could build
something that would carry 50 or 60 pounds.
Actually driving it along at any significant speed might need more than
2 motors, but that too is do-able if you have enough parts.
I don't think you'd have much difficulty moving 6 pounds over smooth,
level flooring with even the simplest construction.
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| (...) The Achilles heal is the bearing ability of a cross axle in a hole. Above a certain load, you will make a constant supply of ABS dust, which means you will have to replace a few key pieces from time to time. Beyond the actual bearing surface (...) (19 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I've recently gotten my hands on a Pololu motor controller which I can control from my Macintosh (see my (URL) tutorial> if you're curious). This has me dreaming of mounting my laptop on a mobile base; with a web cam, speech synthesis, big graphical (...) (19 years ago, 8-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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