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Yes, that was one of the things that made me think its a fake-up..
Notice in my earlier comment I mentioned that.
Robot Building as an art-form is fine by me, in fact I think its been going on for quite a while back to the days of the first mechnical automata.
Its when people try and pass something off as a real, and not a mock-up that I get all narky _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:30 am
kkeerroo Experienced Roboteer
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Location: Brisbane
quote:Originally posted by TDT:
Sweet. Looks a bit like a fire fly from MW3. There is another website I've been to that a guy is making a hydraulic powered mech. I'll trying to dig up the link.
Yet another guy who played too many computer games.
Actually that thing will proberbly fall over and crush him the first time he tries to use it. _________________ Get Some!!!
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Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:37 pm
Spockie-Tech Site Admin
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it looks more realistic than the last one did anyway.. you can see some serious work has gone into that thing..
how he plans to keep it upright and not topple sideways would be interesting to know.. I reckon all these star-wars/mechwarrior style bots are going to look pretty silly for at least a few years as they spend most of their time falling flat on their face..
A good hovercraft air-cushion base would make far more sense to me as a platform for an all-terrain fighting vehicle, but I guess you just cant stomp around in it with the same level of woot-ness that these guys are dreaming of..
Still, they laughed at the wright bros. so maybe in a few more years these things might actually work.. theres certainly a few people with resources trying to make them so.. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:56 pm
Spockie-Tech Site Admin
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and for those wanting to look at some more real-world links on powered exoskeletons under development, theres a lot of links off from this slashdot article
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/04/11/007207.shtml?tid=216&tid=126&tid=14 _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:09 pm
Valen Experienced Roboteer
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presumabally they are going to use the person inside to drive the "stay upright" side of things.
you just have to learn to walk again ;-> _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:22 pm
kkeerroo Experienced Roboteer
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Location: Brisbane
Our sister owns a logging company, so how do we convince her to buy on of these.
Joined: 30 Aug 2005
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Location: Gold Coast
Just to start everyones favorite argument again have a look at the build reports for Pressure Drop and have a look at the leg system. If you only look at one of the legs, which are damn close to a design I have had on my computer for 4 years, you can see that the leg has 2 degrees of freedom and therefore is a walker. One DoF drives the motion of the foot and the other DoF controls the path the foot takes. But one drgree of freedom, the drive DoF, is fed into all 6 legs and there is 1 control DoF for each side. So only 3 degrees of freedom for all the legs on the entire robot. In one way it looks like a walker, in another its a shufflebot.
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I have no problems calling that a walker and giving it a weight bonus. _________________ So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems
Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:04 pm
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OT: Those are teh same wheels Glen, just those are the 120mm sized ones. I'm actually buying a pair of them for my Nar-Board... _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:04 pm
Big AL Experienced Roboteer
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If this was writen in 2001 and was able to walk around fairly effectivly then, it's scary to think of how far it's gotten now. _________________ For West ausies interested in robotics email me at: theoneshrug@hotmail.com
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Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:10 pm
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I wonder who will be the first roboteer to build an exo-suit walker for the weight bonus and try to pass off their own body weight(Roboteer needs to wear the suit for it to work!) as a "consumable" item like CO2 or petrol _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
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