Miscellaneous

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Published on Dec 10, 2014

David Peeters asked "Hey Grandad could you make a one wheeled rubberband powered vehicule ?
Using a ductape rol or anything cylindrical as body/wheel ?".
This is not the vehicle I will make, but it caught my eye as it is a single wheel driven by something inside.

Hamster wheel on Wikipedia

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Tumbling robot

Published on Apr 13, 2015

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How to make a Robot which can walk on irregular surface

Published on Nov 23, 2015

This a simple robot which can walk on irregular surface. Its non-wheel based walking mechanism. Make your own robot to get more hands on.

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Goosestepping robot

Published on Feb 3, 2016

Powered a passive ramp walker with a movable counterweight using a single servo and arduino uno.

Goosestepping robot version 2

Published on Apr 3, 2016

Harmless walker based on the gravity powered ramp walker toys.

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PACBot with an inching gait
April 28, 2016

Passively Actuated Caterpillar robot (PACBot), built by a team of Tufts University students, demonstrates a small inching gait. This robot uses Kevlar tendons, actuated by motors placed at various points within the foam body. PACBot moves by means of directional friction when the soft body is deformed by the action of the motor-driven tendons. Tendon contractions are controlled by a student wielding an X-Box controller. This video shows the device running in tethered mode, but it can also run untethered. PACBot is one of 3 Tufts entries in the 2016 RoboSoft Challenge in Livorno, Italy. Development of PACBot was supported by a National Science Foundation IGERT grant.

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How to make a crazy walking robot

Published on Oct 6, 2016