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(...) Mighty fine walking machine. Nice work, Tom. Cleverly built non-robotic machines like your walker impress me now even more than pre-Mindstorms. It employees mechanical logic rather than an electronic program. Elegant and challenging. Looks (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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(...) I missed the notice of these the first time, but have had a look now. Fantastic! This man has a career in mechanical engineering. Makes me want to assemble my 8448 to see how the original's roof works. (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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(...) Poor quality the photos might be, but the walker is superb! I've seen a few posts about TLG running out of ideas and the general lack of new pneumatics sets - your walker and the 6 legged spider one would be fantastic sets for Lego to produce, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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(...) That is magnificent--what's more, I really like the look of the "tubes." Give it some eyes. *now*. It looks for all the world like some kind of bizarre animal... Hmmm...how often do you have to pump it for each step? best Lindsay (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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(...) to (...) pneumatic (...) Give it (...) animal... (...) Haha! I just tried it out and it's something like 20-30 times per step. With practice you can get a reasonable pumping speed but it looks incredibly perverse! Besides, it still won't (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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My, but those cheap digital cameras do have an odd habit of making red into pink, don't they? :o) Makes me wonder if more people would've bought an 8448 if it HAD been made in pink! ;-) -- Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde Tom Newsom <ab8ten@bath.ac.uk> (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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