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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 15:39:15 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Nathan Colyer ncoly1@eq.edu.au wrote:
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It might work to make a robot that tows the laptop on a trailer setup?
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Ah, sort of the 18-wheeler approach to carrying heavy loads. That’s not a bad
idea; certainly it solves the axle-support and skid-steering problems. But it
makes the steering code a much harder problem, doesn’t it? I can imagine my
poor bot getting stuck in a dead-end hallway, having a hard time turning itself
around.
Still, it’s a possibility. Thanks for the suggestion.
Best,
– Joe
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| What about mounting the laptop on a caster platform similar to the syncro platform mentioned earlier, but without all of the drive components. A single set of drive elements, mounted in the middle of the platform, could provide locomotion, while (...) (19 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I don't see how that solves any problems. (...) How? The trailer still has to have a bunch of axles in order to spread the weight - and when you do that, the trailer is (in effect) skid-steering. (...) That's the cool thing about using a (...) (19 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) It might work to make a robot that tows the laptop on a trailer setup? At a parent night at my school, I towed small children on a trailer (a couple of physics crash carts that they stood on like skatebaords), using a simple robot driven by (...) (19 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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