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Message #06675
To: alt-beam@egroups.com
From: "Patrick Yeon" patyeon@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:59:31 PDT
Subject: [alt-beam] another new (?) drive concept
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I did some serious thinking in the tub yesterday and wound up with this:
I believe that most walkers I've seen use a VERY un-legish kind of leg. They
just have a bent wire which turns around so that the "foot" starts out in
front, pulls the bot forwards, then just flips over to the front again.
Yuck! I came up with a better-looking leg that also does not have to flip
over so the bot can fit in tighter spaces then most. This is untested so
dont get mad at me if it doesn't work.
In the picture attached;
1 is the bot's body or frame
2 is a flat piece of immobile metal attached to the frame
3 is a slot in the flat bar
4 is an pin that goes through the slot into the frame
5 is a hole to solder your leg into
6 is a circle attached to the motor's shaft
7 is a pin that goes through a hole in the bar and one in the circle with
heads on both ends
8 is your motor
9 is the motor shaft
10 is your leg soldered in the apropriate hole
basically, the motor makes a "piston" go up & down which is attached to the
leg that has a gait determined by the heigt of the leg placed on the bar
(the lower the leg, the bigger the gait).
If anything isn't understandable, just ask. "The stupidest questions are
usually the best." -Unknown
Pat
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