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| This week the FIRST LEGO League National Championships were held in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome (home of the Atlanta Falcons). So since the event was in my backyard I figured it would be fun to see what the event was all about. I got a position as a (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ga)
| | | | | Re: SSClagorpion
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| (...) I can see the good sense in putting the hip switches on their own sets of levers, as your pics show. That way, the force required for them and for the legs is independent, so there's no extra load on the switches. I am used to mounting the (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Funny! My presentation at Brickest (classic?) was named Pneumatic Magic. When I started on quad242 I thought the cool thing was going to be the ability to make it modify its behavior to go backwards and turn, but the hardest part was the "no (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: The latest from Epsilon's Lego Williams range!
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| (...) ... (...) You need to use slopes and tiles more, to smooth out the surface. Don't you have some blue and white slopes and tiles? Cheers, (URL) Sci-Fi LEGO> (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
| | | | | Re: SSClagorpion
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| (...) That makes sense, but you may want to take a look at the video of Kevin's walkers: (URL) you see, at the end of each stride, all four legs are at the bottom of their travel. So while it is true that half the legs will have to support all the (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
| | | | | The latest from Epsilon's Lego Williams range!
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| Hello all! Not an aussie icon, but in the spirit of breathing some life into loc.au: (URL) the new williams fw26 (this is the 2004 williams for those who don't follow f1 all that much) I have finally developed the perfect MUCUS technique :) there (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
| | | | | Re: SSClagorpion
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| (...) A few things spring to mind about this: 1. I usually run robots from a car tyre air compressor at 25PSI. This gives good performance with 1-2 large cylinders moving at a time. Using 6 large pump cylinders as the air source, performance is half (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: SSClagorpion
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| (...) Well Steve, it might and it might not. Given 18 bits of state (two bits/pistons per leg plus two extra), we could have a total of 256K possible combinations of leg positions. We only want about about 10 of them. If we start out the pistons in (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: SSClagorpion
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| (...) Yes, I'd rather see a solid, strong, slow robot over a fast robot that succeeds in tearing itself apart. :) (...) That's the throw of the switches, right? Not the throw of the cylinders on the legs. So the legs will "move" at the same speed, (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: SSClagorpion
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| In lugnet.technic, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) So using #1 axle connectors as the linkage, we get a reduced piston expansion, down to 86% of maximum. Using technic axle joiner perpendicular, we can reduce the range to 70% of maximum. I can't (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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