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Re: Jumping 'bots?
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:09:19 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Christopher Lannan writes:
> Funny that this thread should come up again today- I saw on the Early Show
> this morning these cool remote controlled two-legged bots that stood up by
> themselves and balanced using a gyro-scope. A one legged hopper could probably
> balance this way, but I don't know of a lego part heavy enough to be used as a
> flywheel.
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> Chris
Don't forget that large mass moment of inertia slows down the tendency of a
two-legged walker to tip over. It's why us humans are made to stand upright on
out hind legs.
You can achieve a large mass moment of inertia by making it tall, wide and
thick, with much of the mass on the periphery.
- Dave Paule
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| Funny that this thread should come up again today- I saw on the Early Show this morning these cool remote controlled two-legged bots that stood up by themselves and balanced using a gyro-scope. A one legged hopper could probably balance this way, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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