Attoparsec: Kalamazoo road test #1

[gfish]

Attoparsec blog update including the following video of the first Kalamazoo road test. (It didn't go very well.)

Comments

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

seems like it ought to be easy to weld tillers onto the caster frames...

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that shouldn't be a problem. I have a design mostly worked out in my head, with a big control lever and cables. I might even get fancy and make it real Ackermann steering. Having to spare a hand for the lever worries me, though.

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

GripShift style control for the steering cable? You'd need a lot of leverage, but...

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I thought about it, or just using the already-mounted brake levers. But they have such little travel, I'd have to sacrifice all that mechanical advantage on the other end with a multiplier. I think a big dumb lever is the best way to go here, given the constraints.