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Ticklebot
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:12:59 GMT
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Lego Lad <legolad@!Spamless!callnetuk.com>
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Take a look at this - I reckon I'm a-gonna try and make a Lego one! RCX or
Cybermaster? Hmm!
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/tickle/TICKLEcat.html
It's a 'tickling robot' that crawls over one's body, gently tickling as it
goes with its rubber pronged tracks. It tries not to fall off, apparently
by measuring the slope of the surface, as it were.
One challenge will be to keep the 'spikiness' of the device to a minimum,
fairly difficult with Lego!
Chrid
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Neat! I don't know if it's the best solution to the problem tho. I bet a robot like that would take a lot of abuse if its user doesn't lie still. Maybe you could think up a whole new way to do it. Scott Adams, author of Dilbert, once (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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