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Walking Shopping CartFrom GizmoGarden
[edit] "Ideas Great and Half Baked"soundtrack : composer Lee Hazlewood performed by Nancy Sinatra [edit] abstract Carlos was a college kinetic sculpture project. I was interested in the concept of automating aspects of society that were considered not so "glamorous". Robotics are often used in environments which are considered dangerous to humans. Deep sea exploration, nuclear cleanup and volcanism are some of the "higher profile" adverse environments which robots are used. My question was, "What about other dangerous or hazardous areas?". For example, homeless people live in extremely dangerous environments. Shouldn't there be automated equipment used by this strata of society? So, for this project I chose to implement an automated walking, homeless shopping cart. I imagine now, to carry this project to completion I should have given the controls to someone who was actually living on the streets near the university. There was a large homeless population near the campus, and there would have been plenty of opportunity. Unfortunately, I had to disassemble the project for parts before this happened.
[edit] original author--GroG 10:32, 26 March 2008 (PDT) [edit] license type[edit] parts list
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Apr 14 2008 6:51 am
nice ... now i can make my own personal shopping cart which follows me!
Apr 14 2008 8:18 am
Connect this to a GPS system so that it can walk your groceries home. :)
Apr 14 2008 9:28 am
Great idea Alan! I'll get working on it, I can imagine it now - "go get beer" and 30 minutes later a cart of PBR appears :)
Apr 14 2008 12:05 pm
You neglected to mention the best part -- it lights on fire during the video! Beautiful as art. Sketchy in the extreme as engineering. Like I like it.
Apr 14 2008 12:09 pm
Thanks wuzzon, If it was still around - thats one of the parameters I would increase - MORE FIRE!
Apr 14 2008 3:37 pm
So, it does not really walk. It just moves legs as the wheels move it along. Hardly an engineering feet... ill be impressed when you build something that walks...
Apr 14 2008 5:39 pm
Hi Jim,
Yes you are very correct. The power drive attaches to the rear wheels just as the pictures above describe. No not a large engineering feat by any means. However, as far as a study, I was interested in mimicking the way the motion "looked". I was very surprised on how complicated it was to "look" like it was walking. Slots in the legs had to be created where the legs joins the hip. This was necessary to provide the "look" of the shifting and pivoting of the human hip. Also, as I developed it, I noticed that if the same velocity of movement is used, (e.g. a direct linked cam) the movement looks much more mechanical. That's why, I made the quick release cam which the cables are attached to. Within this project, I began to grasp at just what a wonderfully beautiful engineering accomplishment human walking is... Biped walking is controlled falling! Thanks for the comment. Cheers.
PS. "engineering feet" <- that's a good one ;)Apr 15 2008 3:57 am
Hi - I loved it! And what I loved even more was your terrifically gracious response to Jim. It was a tremendous achievement even to create something that looks as if it's walking. As you say: MORE FIRE!
Apr 15 2008 7:41 am
Thanks Toby,
I really appreciate it. MORE FIRE!
GroGApr 15 2008 10:08 am
Carlos works for me! Concept proof. Artistic, Engaging. Simply loved the application. You have made me view automation in a completely different direction. Knowing that just acquiring a shopping cart takes a thousand times more effort than posting poorly thought out comment by a abstract reading challenged -Jim), hats off to you, your skills and your awesome brain. I very much like your direction and cheer you on.
Robotic solar shower?
Maybe give Credit to Boots... composer Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra
Go man Go.Apr 15 2008 11:49 am
Thank you Chris,
I really appreciate it. Robotic solar shower - sounds fascinating! If your serious or even if your not, your welcome to start your own project page here.. Thanks too for the music info, I have updated the site.
MORE SOLAR SHOWERS!Apr 15 2008 2:35 pm
Toby,
Definitely serious. Thanks for the invite. Would have never thought to start a page here. You made my day!
ChrisApr 15 2008 4:49 pm
Truly one of the coolest things I've seen this year. Great work! And I agree with Toby about your response to Mr. "GlassHalfEmpty" (Jim). Whether or not the legs push the card, this really is quite a piece of engineering. AND art!
Apr 15 2008 11:22 pm
I thought it was awesome, would have been better if the top half had a protesting monk on fire, or if it was painted green to bad there isnt MORE art from the fellow.
Apr 18 2008 4:27 am
My daughter sent me the Utube URL and told me to go look at this video. As I started watching it, my first thoughts were that my zany daughter, with her suburb film-editing skills, had done it again. But then I began to see that this was not the product of film-editing expertise and watched in fascination!!
Amazing job of creating the motion and illusion - I'm astonished that no one stopped to look - poor jaded souls - they certainly missed a mind-bending scene.
Enjoyed - would love to see more "statements" .....Apr 19 2008 10:43 am
Arrrgh! But why the fire?!!