Impact is the Key

[Georg Künstler]

Hi ME,
you had already a look to my walker, which I had constructed some years ago.

If you turn a octagon in an hamster cage, then you will get 8 impacts per turn.
Here you will of course more precise, it will be 8,x turns per turn. But an outside observer will notice 8 impacts per turn.

The octagon is only the carrier of the cylindrical weights.
So the carrier has 8 holes in which the cylinders can turn.

All forces on the wheel will be equal, when standing.
But the first impact is changing everything.
If you turn the Hamster cage, then the carrier octagon will fall forward.

All the 8 cylinders will also move.
But the cylinders are not stopped, they swing ahead and upwards.
All 8 will make this move.
The swinging will be in the range from 0 to 45 degrees, depending on the high position of the rolling cylinder.
The lower cylinder only some degrees, the upper one nearly 45 degrees.

The rolling cylinders will do 2 functions:
They conserve the energy from the first fall
and they act as when you have extended the lever in the falling direction.
Because all cylinders are on the move 4 will extended the lever length, the other 4 will shorten the lever length.
You have created an asymmetry.

And now you need a special function so that the cylinders can not roll back.
Like a diode in an amplifier you have to block the reswing.
You have created torque, and because the octagon is standing on a wheel,
the Hamster cage begins to turn. The octagon has no stable stand anymore.

Here I show you the blocking device. You need 8 from them.