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Re: New Years Resolution Runner
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 26 Nov 2003 17:36:06 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Lars Gjerløw Jørgensen wrote:
> Travis's utterance expressed in news:Hoy8Mv.woE@lugnet.com:
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> > I know everyone loves making walking bots. Cudos to all the walker
> > developers... take a bow. But I know that Kevin C. and I have on
> > occasion talked about what it would take to make an actual running
> > LEGO bot. Lets open up a discussion for real and see if we can
> > collectively find the correct series of mechanics over the next year
> > to actually make a couple. Maybe we could make it our collective new
> > years resolution for .technic. It has to be possible.
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> And we agree that the correct definition for "running" is
> that at no time two feet are touching the ground? And that
> at one time beteen two steps there are _no_ contavt with
> the ground! Of course this is for bipeds only! It is
> somewhat different with quadropeds :) How about a trot?
> Or a gallop?
In my mind, running means all feet off the ground, no matter how many feet the
walker has. I did not assume bipedalism.
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> Regards
Kevin
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 | | Re: New Years Resolution Runner
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| (...) Well by that defintion, simply flipping one of your many walkers upsidedown would make it "running" :) I actually studied quadraped running back in 1981 when I was writing a game on an Apple ][+ for a graphic dog-racing simulation/game. I (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: New Years Resolution Runner
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| "Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HoyzK6.15ox@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) I seem to recall that somebody has made a hopping robot already? Cheers, Hao-yang Wang (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: New Years Resolution Runner
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| Travis's utterance expressed in news:Hoy8Mv.woE@lugnet.com: (...) And we agree that the correct definition for "running" is that at no time two feet are touching the ground? And that at one time beteen two steps there are _no_ contavt with the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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