Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04435
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Darrell Johnson beamtastic@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:36:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Turning a walker
So Ian, is there a pic of this walker in your Tilden-bot gallery? I'd
like to see how the motors are arranged to accomplish this, as I'm sure
the leg geometry and motor aggangemet are just as, if not more
important than the electronics..
let the information flooooowww.....
darrell
--- Ian Bernstein wrote:
> I agree that this may be a method that would work
> but adding another
> motor would just add to the complexity of the bot
> (more things to go
> wrong) and reduce battery life. Just to let you guys
> know.... Mark Tilden
> has a two motor (proof-of-concept) walker that can
> pivot in place when
> the sensore it tripped. I'm 95% sure it uses bicores
> and posibly the
> unicore. So the point is.... It's possible.
>
> Laterz
>
>
> *-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-*
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>
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> communicate, the very least
> he can do is to shut up.
> - Tom Lehrer
>
>
>
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