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From: shane@cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough)
Subject: There's more to robotics than CPU's
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OK, I love all the talk about the electronics side of robots, but
no one ever discusses the real "hardware" issues: joints, frames,
motor mounts, etc. Just how do you mount 4 motors to a leg? When
you make a frame, does everyone just use coffee tins, paper towel
tubes, and duct tape :-)?

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Favorite hardware companies?

Favorite frame/appendage materials?

Ideas about joints, gears, gear racks, worm gears?

Sources for all of the above?

Books/papers about DC/stepper/servo motors?

Unless everybody just runs simulations, *someone* has to have tackled
a few of these issues. *ALL* email and posts greatly appreciated.

-Shane

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Shane Bouslough       | #include <stddisc.h>
shane@sbcs.sunysb.edu | "Follow your bliss" - Joseph Campbell
