June 3

"Dynamic walking and running with robots"

I'm following this worksheet to see what I can get from it but it's pretty tricky.

Since I'm a noob (I'm going to extremely simplify and break down the SLIP model into bare bones):

Goals in VPython:

-make a sphere

-make the sphere fall (update position)

-make sphere fall with acceleration (update velocity and position)

-make sphere bounce

-make a spring

-make spring bounce

Current goal: make a ball bounce on a spring.

Second goal: give it some horizontal velocity.

Third goal: make the ball-spring the inverted pendulum

Subgoal 1: make a regular pendulum.

Subgoal 2: Invert the regular pendulum. (Make the floor move instead of the mass??)

I found another powerpoint on the spring thing. TBH I haven't figured anything out on my own...what I've figured out is where to find resources...

LAME.

In learning new things, there's like, a hierarchy of skill, and creating is the last step. I'm not even at like, replicating yet. Well, I am replicating.

I'm at editing I guess?