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Subject:	Re: Hex565 - one leg at at time pneumatic hexapod
Newsgroups:	lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics
Date:	Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:14:37 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, danny staple <orionrobots@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 04/10/05, Kevin L. Clague <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Over the last few weeks, I've been working on a pneumatic hexapod that moves > > one > > leg at a time. > > > > I got it working this morning. It is pretty cool. <snip> > > Please let me know what you think. > > > > Kev > > > That is a joy to watch. Even if it is slower than some other gait, it > is very interesting to watch. I have vaguely followed your pneumatic > threads, watching the cool diagrams and devices, but I will admit you > lost me a while back with this. You and mark are clearly the masters > of Lego pneumatics. I find it pleasing to watch also. It is very decisive about its stepping. When legs are moving individually, they do so realtively quickly, and then they all move at once, you see a definite lurch in body location. There is something about that that makes me just want to watch it walk. > > My efforts have only ever gone as far as building small compressors > and a two cylinder reciprocating "engine". I may have to try a basic > penumatic walker though - you guys have intrigued me. I am also > limited by the fact that I probably do not have any where near that > number of switches, or pistons - mine barely make double figures. If you have four pistons and four switches you can make a biped. In some ways bipeds are hard because of the balance thing, but at least in LEGO pneumatics, they are very simple (very much like a four piston reciprocating engine). > > Its a pity there is no sound on that video. You may find that some > people with slipstreamed SP1 windows have trouble viewing it - indeo > codec is no longer shipped with windows, and costs a few bob! I'm really a neophyte when it comes to this stuff. Do you have other suggestions on encoders I should use? > > Orionrobots > -- > http://orionrobots.co.uk - Build Robots Kev

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		Re: Hex565 - one leg at at time pneumatic hexapod
(...) <snip> (...) How does it cope with uneven ground? It would be interesting to see a vid of it pulling itself over rough and bumpy terrain. (...) Ah - some kind of chicken walker. The thing that interests me most about pneumatic walkers is that (...) (21 years ago, 6-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)

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		Re: Hex565 - one leg at at time pneumatic hexapod
(...) That is a joy to watch. Even if it is slower than some other gait, it is very interesting to watch. I have vaguely followed your pneumatic threads, watching the cool diagrams and devices, but I will admit you lost me a while back with this. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)

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