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Re: How much weight can a LEGO chassis carry around?
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Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:37:58 GMT
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Definitely do-able Joe.
I've made several mobile laptop platforms.
Here's a crawler that I was planning to use in an bigger project.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2490
The plan was to use 4 of them to make a platform like the one
that hauls the space shuttle to the launch site.
It moved 30 lbs of steel weights effortlessly : )
-JSM
Joe Strout wrote:
> I've recently gotten my hands on a Pololu motor controller which I can control
> from my Macintosh (see my
> <http://www.strout.net/info/robotics/tutorials/Pololu0410.html 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 display, speech recognition (in
> quiet environments), etc., I get a lot of robot goodness very quickly that way.
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> 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.
>
> Does this sound doable, or am I wasting my time? If borderline, do you have any
> building tips to make it more likely to work?
>
> Thanks,¬
> – Joe
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