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Re: Pneumatic Hand
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Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:38:09 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Andrew Meyer wrote:
> Hello all. I have been trying for the last few weeks to create a pneumatic hand
> loosely based on the human hand. My first attempt ended up with a 32 by 54 stud
> behemoth. My second attempt had no power to speak of. My third attempt was going
> great...until my cat decided that it looked interesting...and pulled it to
> pieces. So, I relented, realizing that I just haven't done enough work with
> pneumatics to go this alone. So, remembering a hand and arm that I saw a year or
> so ago on Philo's home page, I started here at LUGNET Technic. Sadly, my attempt
> at recreating Philo's hand failed dismally, so I went to bigger and better
> searches, finally finding an awesome site with Google created by a guy named
> Svein Erling Lode. He had a few small pictures of a three (or four?)-fingered,
> thumbed pneumatic hand holding a pilsner glass. I emailed the link on his page
> (selode@mac.com), and was sadly replied by a mailer daemon informing me that
> this address no longer exists. Here I sit now, asking for help. If anyone has an
> in with someone with relatively detailed pictures of a somewhat-human pneumatic
> hand, could you please let me know? I would greatly appreciate this, because I
> kind of promised my FLL team a pneumatic hand...before having one in hand. TIA
> for any help.
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> Andrew Meyer
Hi Andrew,
Some time ago, I searched the web for lego mindstorms humanoid hands as a
brainstorm session for building one of my own. While I did not get to building
one myself just yet, I found the following link interesting:
http://www.bouwvoorbeelden.nl/home_eng.htm
And if you have enough resources, both in terms of time and money, why stop at
building a hand...build an entire robot!
http://www.storming-robots.com/prod/news.html
make sure you check out the picture from the above page
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=822559
Hope you succeed in your quest! Share your experiences!
Regards,
Bruno
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