Can someone explain the rules on shufflers a bit more clearly? Do they get a weight advantage or is this only rewarded to walkers?
Can anyone explain the differences a little more clearly?
Thanks.
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Can someone explain the rules on shufflers a bit more clearly? Do they get a weight advantage or is this only rewarded to walkers?
Can anyone explain the differences a little more clearly?
Thanks.
2.2.
Legged Robots [Walkers] can weigh up to twice the specified weight in all classes. A
walker must employ moveable legs to support its weight. Robots with rolling or sliding
mechanisms will not be classified as walkers.
A shuffler is not a walker and therefore does not qualify for any weight advantage.
So, to be a walker, the robot must support all its weight on its legs. What about something like Clawed Hopper? That mean that would no longer be allowed?
Correct
Right, I get it now...sure sucks the fun outta building one! lol
Yeah but it does make it a proper engineering challenege to get that extra 100% in weight :)
And when it works, it works (eg. anarchy)
wernt shufflers allowed a 50 percent weight gain a few months ago?
Yeah, but for those of us who arent engineers i.e. me, it sucks. lol. I always build antweight shufflers, the rules are a bit different there. But theres no point building a feather equivalent if it has no weight advantage.
Sadly servo horns with leg stuck to them is still IMO not a walker Dave :)
Of course when the legs get cut off your walkers were just servo horns for wheels!
Marco, Ive advanced since then and you know it! Or if you dont, youll see at Barnsley. And I never had my legs cut off, apart from once with that fleaweight, which was a disaster. lol.
dont forget escargot! i remember that it didnt go forward at the aws!
jack
Thats cos it was made in 2 minutes out of scrap, not because the principal wasnt sound. I was looking at building a featherweight mechanism similar to Quarter to Doom or No Snail but if theres no advantage, I may as well just build another roller.
(Message edited by Dgr on February 11, 2009)
Would a walking mechanism that used something like servo motors (normal ones that only go a certain angle) that had to reverse motor direction to reverse leg direction count as a walking robot?
I had an idea for a walker using four, independently controled feet (two on each side) that sort of looks like a shuffler but has to change motor direction and I just want to know whether it would count or not.