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| Greetings All, I built a three strand braiding machine that can be seen here: (URL) a video can be seen here: (URL) pleased with the results and hope you enjoy it. Regards, Tom (17 years ago, 7-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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| Good for you, I always wanted to build something like that eversince I was taught how to braid. So.. I guess you could say I've been thinking of doing it for 25 years. ;) "Thomas Johnson" <rsthj@uaf.edu> wrote in message (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) That's fantastic!! Smooth in function and minimal in build! Nicely done! What do you do with the braiding? Sell it on eBay saying "THis Braid was knitted by a LEGO Robot!"? Dave K (17 years ago, 7-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Tom, this is (yet another) one of your fantastic creations. I saw you had a Strandbest as well. I still cant stop thinking about that leg segment. I cant wait till you build the lego loom. ;) Chris (17 years ago, 8-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Hi Dave, Thanks for the note. My original plan for the braid was to form the core of braided eight-strand rope. In fact, the machine was inspired by this braider: (URL) may still build the eight-strander but I've lost a bit of momentum and am (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Thanks for the note, Chris. Yeah, Theo's mechanism is quite interesting. I'd love to see someone throw a genetic algorithm at it for optimization. I'd bet that there is a combination of link lengths that is significantly superior to anything (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| Ahhh, so that is how you made this! I admit being facinated by braiding machines. The spool feeders and all the rotary motion is quite interesting. I liked seeing your web site too! Eric Sophie (17 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic)
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