Miscellaneous Robot
This is just a design I came up with while working on another project, which I'll post about if successful. Ultimately, this robot was a failure because it's not powerful and can't steer (the treads are too close together), but it looked interesting. Also, since the treads go all around the robot, it can still drive when it's upside down or on either end, so that was pretty neat too.
Anyway, how useful/practical have you found these treads? I like their size and the fact that you can make them as long as you want, but then I don't like their slipperiness (although people have fixed that with stuff like liquid rubber), and they don't seem to "fit" very well on robots (lots of times they're either too long or too short).
-Jonathan
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imaginative stuff (as usually from you).
I'd agree with the drawbacks you noted, in particular the fitting issue which derives from the rather large size of the atomic elements and their inflexibility, of course.
I do not use them very often for my mobile models, though I noted that they make good parts in GBC ones.
Yet, it goes without saying that they make robots look rather interesting, don't they?
Martyn
>Make at least one support wheel
>spring-loaded, to take up slack
That's a great idea... I didn't think of that before. Of course, this would make the robot bigger and more complicated, but it would probably work well.
-Jonathan
-Jonathan
http://irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=354
If you do it please share the project, i have gutters to clean!
(of course i'd help :-)