THE LONG WALK!!

[muchalucha]

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those legs do have a certain hypnotic factor, this is a really interesting build , but this isnt going to compete as a fighting robot right ? As part of the brighton robotics club im building a dinky 2 servo walker , give ya a race .

[froggy]

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Hi Walker lovers
This is the first test of Arac mk 3....legs are still a bit wobbley...but its just the joints that need tightening,,,anyway you will get the idea...

Cheers Froggy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I9FYigxeJk

[rallikas]

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Is that gear-crow a walker too? Are there any videos of it? I saw it on the mutant robots website and started to wonder if this thing ever worked?

[craig_colliass]

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Froggy

That is a realy nice walker.

Is it all new or made of bits from the MkII Arac bot?

Hope to see it soon

are you going to any events this year?

[froggy]

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Hi Craig
Many thanks for kind words...The Mk 3 ARAC...is a cut down, much lighter version...the legs and levers all come from the mk 2 bot (no way was i gonna go thru all that again !!)
The body and internals are all new....i have lost the jaws and tail mechanisms to make it much lighter also it is now powered by 2 wheelchair motors as opposed to 4. It now not only looks good ...the bloody thing works !!! and takes up much less room in the trailer.

Cheers Froggy

[craig_colliass]

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Watching your robot€™s weight seems to always be the problem. With my walker the weight seems to increase to a point where I will be drilling loads of holes soon if things don€™t level out, I was hoping to keep the robot to about 60Kg but it will be more like 75Kg I think. Plus the motors I bought will be too small so like you I am looking for a couple of wheelchair motors for the project soon.
Also because of the extra leg length on my type of design, I will have to stiffen them too (more weight) and so the long walk continues.

[craig_anto]

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no quiet tha same but http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanto818/3853298260/

[craig_colliass]

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Hi Craig
Hope things aren€™t too bad at the moment. Were still praying for good news for you.
Any walker qualifies! And your one works that€™s more than I can say for my effort at the moment I have been sorting out St Hammer, Tron and Seraphim plus the new heavy.
So far I have four legs on the first pod and most of the bits to make up the second pod the idea is to finish the walker then fix all the problems I will have, like legs too flexible or the links not quite the right length motor not powerful enough this sort of thing.

Hope to see you soon


Craig

[craig_anto]

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Have started chemo and first results are positive only up from here (I Hope)

happy Brithday too Craig only the best are Virgos

Vee is pretty cool actually its been something to do while I've not been able to get in the shed

[craig_anto]

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanto818/3 ... otostream/

slight update

[craig_colliass]

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Love the hair!

Some pics on the Pilgrim walker

http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss13 ... 1251646784

It is getting there slowly!!!

[froggy]

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Hi Guys
While awaiting bronze bushes to arrive (many thanks Mario) to get the legs walking properly...i have continued the silly constructions..so we now have scanning blue spotlight eyes....blue LED light show running from front to back...and a posion venom spiitting system.....(water pistol)... Wot fun !!!

Cheers Froggy

[team_orr]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgSSFjCD ... re=related

[craig_colliass]

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You know I was looking at this walker and thinking if I get the time I might make a Feather walker using this same mechanism, as I think it is about as robust as they come. The legs out of HDPE and the gears well in the body of the machine it would have to have a self righting system. Probably an electric Axe would be fun!!!

[daliad100]

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If you do build the feather walker then a hammer mechanism like this would be awesome:
http://www.totalinsanity.net/blogs/f...llnews&f_id=46

That'll pack a nasty punch :twisted: