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Re: Tribar Variations
« Reply #20 on: February 23, 2010, 05:51:44 PM »
What I was thinking was 2, 4, 5, and 7 armed bars, if we had to limit it, othermise we could do other amounts too.
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Re: Tribar Variations
« Reply #21 on: February 23, 2010, 06:38:25 PM »
What I was thinking was 2, 4, 5, and 7 armed bars, if we had to limit it, othermise we could do other amounts too.

Why have them made up for each one?  Wouldn't it be simpler and more fun if we just had a small disc slightly bigger than the width of an extender with sayyyy 10 attachment points to make your own homemade tri-quad-dual-sextuple-etc etc bar.  That way we can just have different arms and in different shapes and sizes. People could design it mixed up or whatnot.

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Re: Tribar Variations
« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2010, 08:01:42 PM »
hmmmm... but they would have to be symmetrical as in if you attached 10 and they were all symmetrical, then attaching 7 would be unbalanced.
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Re: Tribar Variations
« Reply #23 on: February 23, 2010, 09:28:49 PM »
This seems like a great essential to people who like to build bots possible IRL.

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Re: Tribar Variations
« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2010, 02:53:06 PM »
hmmmm... but they would have to be symmetrical as in if you attached 10 and they were all symmetrical, then attaching 7 would be unbalanced.

Good point... only the even numbers would be symmetrical for all attachment points.  Though you could have different symmetric combinations using the even points (think like a squeezed X) I guess odd number bar configurations would indeed need different attachment points to keep it symmetrical.