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Message #06553
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: James G Watt jim@kinetic-arts.demon.co.uk
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 16:20:37 +0100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: uCrawler V1.0
Total newbie here so this may be either stupid or to obvious to be worth
mentioning but couldn't you make a set of free moving back legs and
connect the front left knee to the back right knee to create a 4 legged
1 motor walker?
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6554 Sat, 09 Oct 1999 13:47:54 -0300 [alt-beam] Re: vibration as "locomotion"? alt-beam@egroups.com michael.hirtle@ns.sympatico.ca (Michael Hirtle) You could make the bot pivit forward sort of, when it wants to move forward it
would turn one motor on and then it would get that mptor in front of the other
motor then it could do the came witht the other motor.
Zulu wrote:
> no no.. i do not mean using only one vibrating motor( no more vibrators..
> haha i finally got the joke).. but rather, totally replace the pager motors
> with these vibrating ones. the bot would vibrate to the right or to the
> left instead. wait... then, how would the bot move forward? any ideas on
> this?
>
> rdgs
>
> Zulu
>
> The Difference between interest and committment
> is that when you are interested in something, you
> do it only when its convenient. When you are
> committed to something, you accept only results,
> no excuses ----- Kenneth Blanchard -----
>
> ----------
> > From: Chia
> > To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> > Subject: Re: vibration as "locomotion"?
> > Date: Friday, October 08, 1999 9:49 AM
> >
> > Ummmm...
> > My robot Mantis I uses a pager motor(PM) to vibrate. He doesn't move much
> > for the given torque of a PM
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Daniel Chia:
> > danndom@mbox5.singnet.com.sg
> > Robotics Web Page(unfinished):
> > http://home.crosswinds.net/~danstryder/
> > "It takes 99% sweat and 1% ingeniuty to have success" - Thomas Edison
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Zulu
> > To:
> > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 1:47 AM
> > Subject: Re: vibration as "locomotion"?
> >
> >
> > > huh? i dont get you, but the vibrators i'm talking about are some small
> > > circular vibrating motors:P
> > >
> > > i think there were mentioned sometime back
> > >
> > >
> > > The Difference between interest and committment
> > > is that when you are interested in something, you
> > > do it only when its convenient. When you are
> > > committed to something, you accept only results,
> > > no excuses ----- Kenneth Blanchard -----
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----------
> > > > From: Bens Web Page
> > > > To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> > > > Subject: Re: vibration as "locomotion"?
> > > > Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 7:53 AM
> > > >
> > > > mmmmmm won't ya wife be pissed off about that i would think vibrators
> > > would
> > > > be expensive.
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: Zulu
> > > > To: BEAM
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 5:01 PM
> > > > Subject: vibration as "locomotion"?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > hi all!
> > > > >
> > > > > i've just got this idea... instead of using motors to move a
> photovore
> > > > > around... how about using vibrators to "vibrate" the bot around?.
> i.e.
> > > > > attaching vibrators instead of motors to a photopopper circuit.
> from
> > > what
> > > > i
> > > > > see, this would give the bot a mroe insect like movement.. however,
> > > motion
> > > > > may not be as controlled as compared with using motors and.. hmm...
> > the
> > > > > vibrations would lossen things up on the frame? i'm not sure... any
> > > > > comments on this?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > rgds
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Zulu
> > > > >
> > > > > The Difference between interest and committment
> > > > > is that when you are interested in something, you
> > > > > do it only when its convenient. When you are
> > > > > committed to something, you accept only results,
> > > > > no excuses ----- Kenneth Blanchard -----
> > > > >
> > > > >
>
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