What is amazing to me is that these guys are making some an incredibly smart product in a simple garage. No question that they are very bright engineers and work with whatever they have at hand. I commend you!
It looks like you would just be able to flip the wheel around as well, no major engineering to fix this. Maybe the car was too unbalanced with them out of phase?
@@RustyCraftKnife That's my thought. I'm also thinking with the way it walks that this would double the speed but also double the amount of strain on each leg. This way there's always two legs firmly on the ground
15:07 it's because this type of walking system is supposed to work with the leg of the same axle 180° degree apart in the rotation (with the eventually front legs at the same 180° degree "distance" but swapped, if the rear in in the rear position on 0° the forn thave to be on 180°, same in the rear, if left is 180° in rotation right have to be at 0°, sorry for the bad english, i'm italian >
It's also meant to have many sets of legs, all offset from one another by some amount. No matter if the legs are 180 degrees offset or not, I don't think two legs would ever work quite right.
I don’t know what substances the authors of the video use to raise their creative level, but they do not cease to amaze in every new video! This is just fantastic!
If i remember correctly, they run smoothly when you are having sets of 3 pairs of legs per side, that way always one is moving linear at any time given.
I love you guys.. im in america. California in fact.. Oakland. Been watching you guys for about 18 months... awsome and creative. I try to watch every episode. Keep it up!!!
You guys have excelled yourselves this time. This a serious engineering challenge that many have failed at including the military and you have managed it in 3 days! RESPECT!
You guys are so awesome. This is the wildest concept you have explored. I think you need another set of legs on the front or maybe put a huge lift and a straight axle under the front to lift it up. Great video keep up the good work.
You've just invented the first autonomous walking Lada. That's weird thing to say, but yea..cool! Btw I think if you lift the front tires to level the car, it will move better, not like back and front like in this video.
These guys really deserve the views bc they are also coming up with ingenious amd entertaining solutions to the problems their subs give them that you wouldn't see anywhere else
You have to offset the timing on the legs to walk forward smoothly. Try moving the wheel studs over one hole, on one side. This will help it walk better and put far less stress on the parts. As long as you don't have to turn, you could probably make it 4X4 or even 6X6 by transferring the power between the "wheels" the same way they do on a locomotive. Just mount more legs and connect them with steel rods. Crazy, but it might work.
Engineering something that turns simple rotation of the drive wheels into...that...is seriously brilliant. If I was asked if such a thing was possible I would have said no - never considering how an offset could make it work. Makes me wonder what that engineer could do if he was given serious funding and resources...if he can turn a Lada into a walker using scrap I can't imagine the crazy stuff he could cook up at some state-funded design bureau.
Hey fellas, cool lada. Keep it up. Both legs step at the same time, try asynchronical. As in left-right left-right. That might help with that little backdrag. And deffo raise the front end. But eventually make it a centipede.
