Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02798
To: George Rix rix.g@bmts.com
From: Bruce Robinson Bruce_Robinson@bc.sympatico.ca
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 23:09:58 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Caterpillar
George Rix wrote:
> Has anyone built a bot with Caterpillar treads? I'd be interested in
> seeing something like that.
Not yet -- it's on the drawing board though. Conceptual design is done,
drive motors acquired, and right now I'm looking at possible track
materials.
And this one will resemble a tank, because it'll have a head/turret to
figure out where it's going to go next. Got the motor & drive for that
as well.
Don't look for anything soon, 'cause I gotta repair the REAL Cat this
summer. Meanwhile, Jean auBois just posted a reference to this site,
which is very much along these lines.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/tickle/TICKLEcat.html
Kind of interesting -- steers itself according to slope, rather than
light source.
Regards,
Bruce
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