amazing spider car

[Vinfinite]

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[Alone]

Wild wild west called; it wants its evil scientist with the useless machine back.

 

[Canai]

I want to see him spin a web with it.

 

[OverVolt]

Wow, it sure seemed to waste alot of leg strokes trying to grasp at the pavement.

Then other times it seemed to be really in-tune.

They did a good job with only $15,000 IMO

Cool

 

[irishScott]

Pretty Awesome IMO. Could use some better computer control.

 

[zerocool84]

Does it have 8x8 for offroad???

 

[andylawcc]

it also reminded me of one of my childhood toys...!!! it had robotic dinosaurs and the spider that moves EXACTLY like that.

 

[DarkThinker]

Fskcing brilliant!

 

[Vinfinite]

Originally posted by: OverVolt
Wow, it sure seemed to waste alot of leg strokes trying to grasp at the pavement.

Then other times it seemed to be really in-tune.

They did a good job with only $15,000 IMO

Cool

it seems to only waste leg strokes when its turning, otherwise it works great

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: Vinfinite

Originally posted by: OverVolt
Wow, it sure seemed to waste alot of leg strokes trying to grasp at the pavement.

Then other times it seemed to be really in-tune.

They did a good job with only $15,000 IMO

Cool

it seems to only waste leg strokes when its turning, otherwise it works great

Yeah, the legs only go forward/backwards, so it has to skid-steer. Not a very efficient way to do things, but a hell of a lot easier than giving the legs another couple degrees of freedom.

Cool toy.

 

[xSkyDrAx]

Very neat! but at the same time it was a bit creepy when it started to move :Q and I don't even have a phobia of spiders or anything like that.

 

[Bootprint]

MondoSpider.com

 

[mobobuff]

Needs rubber pads on the feet.

 

[Kelvrick]

Wonder what kind of mpg he gets.

 

[swtethan]

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amazing spyder car also

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus

Originally posted by: Vinfinite

it seems to only waste leg strokes when its turning, otherwise it works great

Yeah, the legs only go forward/backwards, so it has to skid-steer. Not a very efficient way to do things, but a hell of a lot easier than giving the legs another couple degrees of freedom.

Cool toy.

I wonder if they could come up with one where there would be 4 dedicated to going forward and backward and then the other 4 would be for side to side movement.

With more development (say into hydraulic lifting) they could turn it into one heck of an off-road machine.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
Needs rubber pads on the feet.

Definitely, even though they would wear out quickly, it would at least help soften the ride a little.

I agree though, pretty cool, especially for $15,000.

The motion of insects walking is actually very complex... It would be very, very expensive to make a machine duplicate such motions with any accuracy.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: Alone
Wild wild west called; it wants its evil scientist with the useless machine back.

i immediately though of that movie too!

 

[Ulfhednar]

I hate the idea of vehicles with legs, because wheeled vehicles are much more efficient, but with good suspension and a better (quieter) set of motors and gears this thing could actually be really awesome as a novelty!

 

[Old Hippie]

Neat! That thing could be fixed-up great as an attraction for a Halloween hayride or Terrified Forest.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: Old Hippie
Neat! That thing could be fixed-up great as an attraction for a Halloween hayride or Terrified Forest.

And remember to add in John Deere/Timberjack's Walking Machine for extra terror.

 

[ForumMaster]

cool but doesn't look very safe or fast. wonder how fast that thing can go. cool project.

 

[Midlander]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
cool but doesn't look very safe or fast. wonder how fast that thing can go. cool project.

Yeah. It doesn't have the 5MHP bumper.

 

[Raiden256]

Spydor!

Only that guy doesn't have a hood-covered skull for a head...

 

[gerwen]

Very cool.

I bet it takes about 2 hours of maintenance for every hour of use though. I wonder how hard it would be to modify it for uneven terrain. It's got great potential.