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Greetings All! I am still awaiting the arrival of MindStorms in Hungary, so I have had a lot of time to read the O'Reilly book, lurk on LUGNet and this list for a month or so, and just generally get a feeling for the whole LEGO robotics world. I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Christian Jacobsen <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:00b101bf30f1$54...a@xtian... (...) I've been thinking about the same thing ever since seeing pictures of battleing robots. It would be great to have a bot that could hop on top of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I remember a Scientific American article from a decade or so back on walking bots. (I’m now getting close the point where I’ll be reading the “25 Years Ago” articles for the second time, looking forward to that.) As I remember they discussed (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Dear Christian, I have been experimenting with legs that could make a robot jump like a frog (see my old "Jump Frog Jump"-posting). I had several problems. It was actually my first idea for a robot. One of the problems the idea represented was (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) of an (...) Funny enough I've been thinking about this. There's a particular type of spider that also acheives this motion by pumping compressed fluid to it's legs, simultaneously and quickly. Power to weight ratio is going to be your enemy (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It might be possible to gradually wind up a bungee cord and then abruptly release it. That would permit a gradual conversion of electrical to mechanical energy at a rate the the RCX permits, while still allowing high power for the short time (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yeah! The bungee idea would work! Combine that with the pogo idea- I'm thinking for balance just put the bot inside a tripod or pyramid- basically the pogo stick hangs from the top of the pyramid. Motors could angle it, then when the bungee (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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