Day 8: MYSTICAL UNICORN JUNIOR JUNIOR

or "how did it take me 'till October to put this up here?"

I am full of nostalgia,
great nostalgia for the original Mystical Unicorn-

RIP MYSTICAL UNICORN

who was of similar construction to our latest project-

Do not tell Helena that I am calling it 'MysticalUnicornJunior'

The MysticalUnicornII is a SPEED DEMON.

She goes about .3m/s (we think) while carrying a 1kg weight.

Helena and I got her moving with the help of a gear train, it is pretty neat that she moves at all!

(seriously! look how big that weight is by comparison! huge!!)
So, here is where the magic happens-

there's a 24 tooth, a 40 tooth and a pair of 8 tooth gears in there

the gear train.

like shifting gears on a bike, raising the gear ratio increases the torque.

(at the expense of speed, but so it goes)

The thing to do now is figure out if we can make her move even faster by decreasing the torque.

We'll have to see if we can get her any faster with out stalling.

Helena (my new parter!) can be found at her blog- Adventures in Robotic Design Studio,

check it out!