and nobody saw this coming!

[ipxfreeze14]

Quite cheap. I also chose to get a crappy iPhone too. I think I might use that as target practice.I'll keep my S3 instead. And I think "HEYAYAYAYA....." will be devastating for N. Korea.

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North Korea are going to be ordering 1 for each soldier...

 

[adam bussey]

Yeah the issue with the Warhammer concept, is that its a game. In real life there is this issue known as "Gravity - thou art a heartless bitch" So they would need a very wide base to be stable. or a very complicated design to keep them well balenced on a small frame. which is more effort than any of us are willing to do.

Adam, your little concept is a practical one. Wide base, four stilt legs for best balance, and the leg design would provide the abiltiy to raise and lower the cockpit.

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I based the legs off of backhoe diggers

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[Tariq]

Yeah the issue with the Warhammer concept, is that its a game. In real life there is this issue known as "Gravity - thou art a heartless bitch" So they would need a very wide base to be stable. or a very complicated design to keep them well balenced on a small frame. which is more effort than any of us are willing to do.

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It wouldn't be that hard to do actually. Its just finding a hydraulic pump compact, but also powerful enough to move the thing. In reality the pump would be the size of a shed. More possibly needed if you were to bog the machine down with amour.

 

[Ian_Gere]

One way to make a walker much more stable would be to use a couple of hundred kilo heavy flywheel mounted horizontally as part of the power system - vacuum bearings rolling on PTFE; charge it up by spinning the flywheel up to 20-30K rpm - the spinning weight would make it resistant to tilting.

 

[Tariq]

Someone beat you to it adam

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22231365

 

[sp00n]

Someone beat you to it adam

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22231365

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not exactly quick is it lol :lol:

 

[Tariq]

Its not bad for a prototype build by a software tech in his shed.

Give it to a couple of engineers with a bigger budget and you'll see that thing taking over New York in a couple of years.

It can never be "quick" though. The way the legs are, it has to drag itself forward which is never a fast method of propulsion.