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Motorcycle chain hand

2007-08-28T18:49:47+01:00

Blimey it's true, what goes around comes around (again and again) I have just dug a book off my bookshelf called Anderoid Design - Practical Approaches for Robot Builders by Martin Bradley Weinstein copyright 1981 and in the chapter on Fingers (chapter 15) he suggests and shows examples of using a bicycle chain attached to a motor via a pully to create fingers.

I even remember building one to see if it worked (it did) when I was about 17.

It's a good book by the way even though it is quite dated now.

Pev

Statistics: Posted by Pev — Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:49 pm

Motorcycle chain hand

2007-08-28T15:51:42+01:00

We talked about this over at Robot Magazine:

http://www.botmag.com/forum/showthread.php?t=471

--Scotty

Statistics: Posted by srobot — Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:51 pm

Motorcycle chain hand

2007-08-28T05:20:40+01:00

I've seen that episode. Best part is when Jamie uses it to catch flying arrows.

Statistics: Posted by 1UpCheatachu — Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:20 am

Motorcycle chain hand

2007-08-28T00:01:21+01:00

Check out this video of a robot hand made of a motor bike chain, very neat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phQcTjnmTcw

Statistics: Posted by Droid Works — Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:01 am