Next step is to figure out where to mount the batteries. I guess we need for mechanical engineers to show structural trick for carrying load with paper.
Corrugated cardboard can be very stiff.
Maybe the batteries could be installed in the robot's feet or shoes. Perhaps something like Herman Munster's boots.
One could assemble up to four 4LR44 6V alkalines using the boots to house them.
In a more conservative aproach, one battery and a micro motor in each boot plus two more batteries as the lower half "muscles" of both legs.
Caterpillar chains or soft rubber wheels, axles, leadscrews or pinions and some gears will fulfill the drive requirements.
Add a tiny Prop board (flex, maybe) to its hart and some transistors and you are ready to go. A bunch of "vein" wires and leds and you get blinking eyes.
Dual colored red/green to express emotions or acknowledge for commands.
Wich commands? IR remote, of course.
Next step is to figure out where to mount the batteries. I guess we need for mechanical engineers to show structural trick for carrying load with paper.
Not to mention the servos and other junk.
Functional paper robots will require out of the box thinking.
- There was a mention of a flexible battery recently.
- Maybe the toothbrush-bot can be used for transport (one per foot).
- other ideas?
Memory wire requires a lot of current, so the battery would have to be bigger. But it's a tradeoff against the mass of a comparable servo that might still work.
All kidding aside, paper structures can be made quite strong. Look at corrugated cardboard. It isn't really cardboard at all, but three layers of kraft paper glued together in a configuration that adds stiffness and strength.
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Next step is to figure out where to mount the batteries. I guess we need for mechanical engineers to show structural trick for carrying load with paper.
And plywood's just glorified cardboard, right?
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Bingo! Except I would say that plywood is what cardboard aspires to be.
And to think I nominated that man as "most helpful"...
He just set back my plywood movement a whole year!
Maybe the batteries could be installed in the robot's feet or shoes. Perhaps something like Herman Munster's boots.
One could assemble up to four 4LR44 6V alkalines using the boots to house them.
In a more conservative aproach, one battery and a micro motor in each boot plus two more batteries as the lower half "muscles" of both legs.
Caterpillar chains or soft rubber wheels, axles, leadscrews or pinions and some gears will fulfill the drive requirements.
Add a tiny Prop board (flex, maybe) to its hart and some transistors and you are ready to go. A bunch of "vein" wires and leds and you get blinking eyes.
Dual colored red/green to express emotions or acknowledge for commands.
Wich commands? IR remote, of course.
Am I dreaming? Maybe a little.
Yanomani
Paper Robots
Paper Robots
Yes I know those robots seem so good!
But they're only imitation
Paper never lasts as long as plywood
http://thecardboardrobot.com/
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/01/cardboard-robot/
I was thinking more of a Malvina Reynolds song:
Paper robots made of ticky-tacky
Paper robots on the hillside
Paper robots all the same.
-Phil
Not to mention the servos and other junk.
Functional paper robots will require out of the box thinking.
- There was a mention of a flexible battery recently.
- Maybe the toothbrush-bot can be used for transport (one per foot).
- other ideas?
-Phil
All kidding aside, paper structures can be made quite strong. Look at corrugated cardboard. It isn't really cardboard at all, but three layers of kraft paper glued together in a configuration that adds stiffness and strength.
-Phil