Eagle Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 So,,Phil dropped off the Spaceman for repair...A basket case. Anyhow after the repairs,the bot has foot issues. There is something broken in the feet that allow them to over rotate while walking. This caused it to be unstable. Everything is glued together and unable to be taken apart. A shame,,,,but it gave me an idea.. A botprop for all of these robots. It allows them to be operated without risk of falling over and being damaged. Also a great way to store the robots to keep the weight off of the wheels and legs. This is a prototype I threw together in about 20 minutes. The stand is not intrusive to the bot. It uses existing ports. I'm going to make them for the Horikawa bots first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil R Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Great job, Mark! Walking in place, never thought of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fineas J. Whoopie Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Great idea Mark! amazing that it hasn't been thought of before. Great job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morbius Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Such innovation, a negative-action treadmill (sort of) for robot toys. They don't have to march off the table anymore and the wheels get exercised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 As long as it's not a rotating robot! Good job Eagle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil R Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Robert, I believe Mark is already working on the rotating version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyman Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I'm not getting how it is attached to the robot. It looks like you bolted the stand right to the robot but I'm sure that is not correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robothut Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 A magnetic crotch support would be the way too go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyman Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Oh I see now. You said you used existing ports on the robot. Of course, not all robots would be conducive to the procedure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share Posted June 11, 2016 Come on Andy,,cut me a little slack...You think I overlooked that slight observation ? : John,,thank you for the great tip ! I was going to go with a 10 degree tilt back with a felt crotch support. As I said BEFORE ,,the Supports would be NON intrusive,,, Yes I have taken into account the rotating robots. The intent is to take the prototype to an ascetic functional design ..I built this as an alternative course for Phil's robot. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martijn Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Great stand! Fantastic to see the robot walking in air:) The falling over is caused by the metal little axles in front of the feet that are made of soft aluminum, if you look under the feet you see they are most probably not straight anymore but bend, this minor fraction of the little bended axle being now too low causes the falling over, just take a big flat screwdriver and push the axle on both side of the plastic inner leg back straight to above. It will stand and walk straight again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share Posted June 11, 2016 Thank you Martjin !! I'll try that ,,,but the problem with this one seems to be that the feet over rotate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinplate6 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Hey, Eagle, if you can perfect this in a design that would fit universally to all toy robots, you could easily market these stands, I know I'd buy some. Hey! Have these reproduced in plastic, and then they could be run off on 3D printers in the hundreds for low cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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