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Re: why won't my biped walk?
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Date: 
Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:10:09 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Joe Strout wrote:

All right, time to tear my last biped apart and build a new one with this new
understanding!

Just a follow-up -- all I had to do was slightly redesign and reattach the feet,
with the cam-driven connection on the outside and the stabilizing connections on
the inside.  It now walks quite reliably!  Very cool.

This bot is cute in a sort of ugly way (like a bulldog), but I think I'll try to
build something a little more sleek and compact.  Using the motor I have makes
it a bit of a pain, because I need a lot of gears to bring the speed down (and
torque up) to where it needs to be, but I'm sure I can pack it in a little
better than this first prototype.

Thanks again,
- Joe



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  Re: why won't my biped walk?
 
(...) Congratulations! Always happy to help out a biped fan. I love them. Make sure you take a picture and post it here, so you can be added to the "Walker Madness" list. (...) For me, building is about experimenting and exploring. Each of my MOC's (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: why won't my biped walk?
 
(...) I think you're right. For the record, I tried simply shifting the foot plates in one stud each -- and this does sort of work; the bot now wobbles a lot but, most of the time, actually transfers from foot to foot. But I think your analysis (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.technic)

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