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| (...) OK. You are going to put two touch sensors on one port? I thought you needed to know that the leg is fully extended, but not touching. How will you do that with one sensor port? (...) You are right, he needs to balance on the three feet that (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I can think of two was: use two touch sensors, and be able to read the state of both of them (you can do this with a 3rd party multiplex, or cybermaster sensors (which are kinda rare... right, Steve?), or use touch sensors stacked with (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) There are a couple ways that come to mind. If you don't want to know the details, skip ahead... We want to know when the leg is extended, and the foot is not touching the ground. There will be four possible states: 1) Leg up, foot not touching (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Again, the main goal is to know when the leg is extended, and the foot isn't touching the ground. So, you can mount the foot sensor so it's normally closed (pressed) except when the foot is on the ground and mount the leg sensor so it is (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| In lugnet.technic, Steve Hassenplug wrote: <snip> (...) Nope. The sequence is: 1. All feet down. 2. Lift one foot group 3. Sweep legs 4. put feet down 5. Lift other foot group 6. Sweep legs So it does not need to walk forward to lift the feet. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| In lugnet.technic, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) Oops: B expand = ~C & ~D & E & F (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I keep thinking about a rotary type walker, where the feet more or less go in a circle and the body is always moving forward. Please forgive me. :) So, when it lifts one leg group, and someone switches it into reverse, will it put those legs (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Ahem, (...) So we can incorporate the tail's funtionality and weight to help aid the robot by swinging or uncurling the tail so it faces away from the body and is extended back. This shifts the center of gravity away from the front of the (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I'm back I'm back. What can I do? I want to build something. I'm gonna make a concept moc moc up. Pun intended. e (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Nope. It will force the legs to the correct position for walking backwards, and then drop the feet. Kevin (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) MOC-up! I love it! (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I could be wrong (missing something) but I think if the switch is flipped immediatly after they raise up, then the legs are in the correct position. If you're walking forward, and switch to reverse right as your foot comes off the ground, you (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Probably not. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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