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Subject:	Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic
Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:14:17 GMT
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Brian, your rock crawler is quite interesting to me because you've rediscovered the design of a real-world reconnaissance robot: http://www.firstresponserobotics.com/ The designer is related to my boss in some manner that I can't recall, but he was up at our office last summer showing us videos of the robot and having us help him design some promotional materials.

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		Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
(...) well, in all honesty I shamelessly implemented a solution I had already known about: PackBot by iRobot. I won't remotely claim the idea originated with me, as it didn't. I was inspired by the "real world" here. That said, I'd not run across (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)

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		Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
(...) The more I thought about this, the more I liked this idea: I wanted to make a really high-mobility vehicle, but the problem with wheels is they are really stopped by steps greater than their own radius (well, partially, ignoring pushing from (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)

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