Who didn't say that bigger is not always better??? http://patapsco.nist.gov/ImageGallery/retrieve.cfm?imageid=299&dpi=150&fileformat=jpg Looks good to me!!! :D
However, out of curiosity, what is the advantage of a hexapod over a 5 axis machine? Ries On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > On 4/13/2011 10:44 AM, Andrew wrote: >> ... >> By the way, there are not NIST hexapod photos any more here >> http://www.mel.nist.gov/photos/hexa.html >> I was not smart enough to save them to my computer, and can not find on the >> net any more. Pity. >> > > Trick 1: You were looking at a website run by the specific laboratory. > NIST itself has a photo gallery. A search on "hexapod" at > http://patapsco.nist.gov/ImageGallery/search.cfm turned up two images, > one of the real hexapod and one of a VR version of same. Not so many as > I expected. > > Trick 2: the Internet Archive. I think you'll find everything you want > at, for example, > http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20100527204402/http://www.mel.nist.gov/photos/hexa.html > > Trick 3: send an email either to the NIST Public Inquiries unit or to > the Manufacturing/Robotics folks (Fred Proctor, for example) and I'm > sure they can provide or put up more images. You can mention my name if > you want; I can't promise it will help. Sending them an image of your > own work will undoubtedly go a long way :-) > >> As an aside, when I first looked at your video, I thought you had built >>> your machine in your living room! If you actually did, please give me >>> some pointers on how to convince my wife I should be able to build >>> robots in ours:-) >>> >> Oh, it's only low ceilings prevented me from building it at home =)) >> I guess, I'd rather built it in garage, but it needs plenty of room. >> So, the machine is built at the university. > I guess I was fooled by the nice floor. We had painted concrete. If we > were lucky, parts of it were covered with linoleum tile. >> Thanks and besr regards, >> Andrew > And to you, Andrew. > > Kent > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes > not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as > part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. > Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. > Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
