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Re: pic: summer project coming along...
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Originally Posted by joeweber
Looks great. Looking at your vidio it looks like the pivot low for the handle will make it hard to ballance, if you could make it go forward and back with rotating handle grips that would alow you to lock down the lower pivot point making it easier to ballance it when you drive. With the drive set up it is going to be fast so hold on. check ours out at http://team1322.org/joeway.htm we used caster for ballance. Good luck. Looks like fun. |
Joeway looks like a fun ride! And simple enough to be a nice offseason team-building project. How fast does it go?
The lower forward-back pivot is not a control feature on ours - it is just that the handlebar wasn't secured. The side-to-side pivot for steering is fairly rigid when its bolted together properly (which it isn't yet).
Latest videos (including what I would loosely define as balancing in the third one):
http://techtv.mit.edu/file/263
http://techtv.mit.edu/file/264
http://techtv.mit.edu/file/265
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05-08-2007, 21:54
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