As explained in the review the current craft of YMCA Elmo needs some improvement...with that aside and acknowledged, here is an explanation of where I'm currently at. When I first attached the wire legs to Elmo when I activated him he fell over, mainly because the legs had nothing stopping them from swinging back and forth. I had placed a ring of wire around and between the two foot pieces and then attached the leg wires to this. By doing this I had nothing to secure the legs in place, therefore it needed to be re-thought. I then decided that to stay properly in place the legs needed to be properly braced to avoid lateral unwanted movement. I bent the wire so that the top of the leg contoured the foot piece and connected up to the original leg. I then secured the three legs on each foot accordingly and this worked wonderfully. Elmo was now able to walk freely and balance on his own, SUCCESS!
The only issue I was now having was that the leg pieces were sliding away from the gear box body which was inhibiting them from moving, which at some points when Elmo was activated caused him to only sway back and forth instead of walking. This was temporarily fixed by placing a piece of tape over the two pieces to secure them, this obviously needs to be rethought...and so the process goes continues!
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Legs & Feet
Posted by Shannon Leah Small at 9:57 PM
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