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The walking robot video

ecar3483 — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 02:23:11 GMT

In a previous life I used to build simple robots...

I'm amazed that it still goes, considering it's made mostly from recycled coat hangers.

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twyngwyn — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 04:19:04 GMT

Hi ecar....it's a private video - no access 🙂

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imastawka — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 04:36:52 GMT

Re: The walking robot video

ecar3483 — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 04:57:12 GMT

Sorry, guys. I'm a You Tube Noob.

It all seems so easy, until....

Re: The walking robot video

ecar3483 — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 05:13:27 GMT

The one in the video is one of the early models, and the only survivor (I need a part, I'l just take it from this one and later on I'll get back to it and fix it. Promise... - things that Never happened. ). The earliest model had one motor and waddled around like a drunken hermit crab. A later version had six motors, three at each end, which covered a fair range of movement, and could climb stairs. Up, but not down. Gravity proved to be too great a challenge and the poor robot self-disassembled.

It's great what you can learn from the internet.

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twyngwyn — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 06:51:25 GMT

thanks for 'fixing'...now all you need is to attach dusters & it can do all the housework 🙂

Re: The walking robot video

myoclon1cjerk — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 00:56:39 GMT

And here's a dancing one 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95HbhTl60k&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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tasfleur — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 01:27:20 GMT

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lloydslights — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 01:42:59 GMT

Thanks myoclon What a fun, and clever music clip. You got me hooked..here's another with an airship too!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBGSJ3sbivI

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myoclon1cjerk — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 03:04:02 GMT

You like electro-swing,lloydslights? Here another by Caravan Palace.Uplifting stuff,this. 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7lxd7RL1To&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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bakeandfry — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 03:17:20 GMT

Thats a prity cool robot, how long did it take you to move like that?

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ecar3483 — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 04:26:30 GMT

It took me about 2 or 3 months to make, mostly because I had to save up for the motors.

I got the general idea for it from a site called Robots.net, the robot itself is called a Carpet Monster.

The site has some really good pictures, but I still had to work out how the frame and the circuit went together. That took some time.

http://robots.net/robomenu/993258526.html