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Announcing: The AnthroPC Handbook
calenlass:
--- Quote from: se7en ---Pintsize is a top heavy bugger
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You could put weights in his feet...
animatronic head:
First of all, the fact that Pintsize is top heavy does not necessarily make walking impossible. In fact, humans are top heavy, and we do a very good job of walking. The key is shifting the weight to the right place above the feet. Also, I will not be using feet that are shaped exactly like Pintsize's. I plan on using hemispheres with flat bottoms. Much of the electronics for balance and basic motion control will fit into the feet and torso leaving the head free for sensors, voice recognition circuits, a processor, etc. My goal in this project is not to make an exact replica of Pintsize, for I agree, that is nearly impossible right now. I can, however, use the Pintsize design as a base to experiment with things such as AI and human/robot interaction.
animatronic head:
I've drawn up some diagrams to show what I've been talking about. Yellow lines are for servos, gray lines are brackets and aluminum tubing, and the cyan is the outer shell. The first picture is the robot in a standing position, and the second picture is the robot shifting its weight before a step.
Bunnyman:
the nice wide feet don't hurt either.
Some sort of gadget to control the center of gravity...like a tuned mass damper scaled waaaaaay down...would do the trick. Like some sort of fluid transfer system or somesuch. Though I'm not sure if anyone's tried that yet...
--- Quote ---Disclaimer is mine, EULA is comming, but those things are like 10 friggen pages of legal jargon...and its hard to make an EULA humorous :P
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Actually... http://www.far-out-dude.com/archives/HOEEULA.txt
From Heart of Evil, the Apocalypse Now meets Resident Evil mod for Half-Life.
jhocking:
I was all "wtf is going on?" until I realized this wasn't the comic thread.
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