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strider: the six-legged walking creature
You can make interesting models that move on wheels, but it is also possible to make robots that walk. Such creations are slightly more challenging to make, but in this chapter you’ll find instructions to build Strider, a six-legged walking creature, as shown in Figure 9-1. Once you finish building it, you’ll program it to walk around and respond to human interaction.
Figure 9-1: Strider
The Strider robot uses three identical motor assemblies to walk, each of which controls one pair of legs. The leg modules are interconnected with a triangle-shaped frame, which also carries the NXT with several sensors ...
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