Maybe you want one of these for Christmas?
Posted on 09/28/2012 6:49:57 PM PDT by Solomon8522
I got my Girl Scout badge in Germany, when I was on the board of the local US Army council.
Before that...Well, the town I grew up in was too small for a troop of any kind.
I've been thinking that a backhoe is a bit too limited for some of the projects I have in mind.
I may have to build a full-size hydraulic spider-bot.
Hunter class defense spider size or bigger?
Hunter class is about the size of a respectable car and can be ridden in.
I’m off to bed. Manana! (With all the tildes!)
No, don’t steal all the tilde marks!
Too bad I already got him a present.
Also those are expensive and the government only gives me a small, small percentage of the so-called national budget.
That at a minimum. Consider: The easy way to power the spiderbot would be to just drop a standard power plant into it.
I might not want to go with the full lunar design, though. There really isn't a problem with heat flow, so spherical may be wasteful from an ergonomic viewpoint. More crablike, possibly.
And the ultra-redundancy wouldn't be needed, either. The arms could be dedicated, as also the legs. Still insectoidal, though. It's a stable platform that can maneuver anywhere.
One pictures a forest of levers to control the hydraulics. Not my way. I'd have the legs interconnected, and still controlled as I described it, with the operator using a harness.
The machine merely follows the operator's motions. When he walks, it walks. When he picks something up, the machine picks something up.
My design simplifies the matter of balance that a full-size mechanoid would have. If you've seen "Iron Man", the nemesis configuration that Tony Stark faces would be a typical mechanoid design. It's big so that it can be strong, but for a typical backyard work project it wouldn't be practical.
Picture something more like a zero-radius lawn mower, with legs instead of wheels, and you're getting closer.
It was just a suggestion. Have you decided what you want other than a sword? Kathleen hasn’t gone sword-shopping yet, but I have a feeling they’ll be too much.
I guess a new coat would be nice.
Long or short, conservative or trendy, black or some other color? And what’s your size, about a 6 in coats?
Tildes are easy. Just write out M a & n tilde ; a n a .
Now take out the spaces: Mañana.
Mañana.
See? Easy.
The kind you get at Bass Pro. But preferably not camo, because that doesn’t go with very many of my outfits. Black or gray would be better.
Probably a 6, yes.
The coat I bought in Panama last year (year before?) is nice, but not really designed for New Jersey weather.
Maybe you want one of these for Christmas?
Controlled by a full body waldo interface.
Interesting.
Back in the 2009 Undead Thread from December, you mentioned the timeship Shuttle 106.
The crew mentioned their home time as being one hundred fifty years into the future from the habworld time.
Further, the Hab crew met only three of the crew from the shuttle.
One hundred fifty years into the Habworld future is fifty years after the rabbitoid tale.
Just how many non-humans were in the shuttle crew?
No others in the crew were ever mentioned. It was all on a "need to know" basis. It could have been zero, (and was likely a very small number), or up to hundreds of people and non-people.
The implication was that the ship was filled with equipment. My presumption would be that the number of unseen crew was about thirty.
Strong ,intelligent, Brain the size of a small plant.
Turns on a 'Dime'.Ready to go without further expenditure
Why develop a new one?
In the Habworld time frame, non-humans at that point are unknown.
The silicon bugs have at that point not been found yet.
Though somebody somewhere begins whispering the need to build a system defense fleet.
I don’t personally know when that starts or who it is, but it is around the same time the Hab leaves Mars for Venus.
Wonder how much interference in the timeline is simple maintenance to ensure things go as history said?
Real people Personalities was a disaster.
The Anti-Bugblatter Beast ray didn’t work..
For a functional work-machine, I tend to favor simplicity of design.
This design requires the control of an operator, and for simplicity's sake, I didn't want to have the machine try to balance itself. "Balance" is this situation means not falling over, in the same manner as a fork-lift truck.
Rather than have extra weight for stability, I set it up that all lateral motions would be accomplished by transferring weight from one tripod of legs to another tripod of legs. I call this an insectoidal gait.
It is accomplished by having one tripod of legs follow the motions of the operator's right leg, and the overlapping tripod of legs following the motions of the left leg.
At no point can the device tip over.
Their future timeline had been so carefully wrought, they intended no interference with it. Accordingly, only one person, the "Weatherman", knew their actual origin.
The three individual "reporters" were carefully coached to appear to be from the Hab time.
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