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Re: 110ft/s (75mph) robot design

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Originally Posted by Aaron Ng View Post
Ackerman steering sounds quite difficult to design as well as build.
uh...no, it's very easy to design an build. We whipped up some steering knuckles real quick in 2008 to play with, connected a window motor and a very simple tie rod to these, they pivot on a bolt, and a wheel fits over the spindle. I don't have any pics of the assembled thing, unfortunately.



we had it working in a couple hours.

(s_forbes might be kind enough to make a sketch of how all this gets assembled?)

(or just google ackerman steering and look at all the drawings, it should be obvious)

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