Each team has taken a different approach to how to get their machine to walk. The Megalomaniacs are going to adapt a Jeep to walk by welding a cam onto the wheel hubs. A cam is something that turns but isn't necessarily circular. The Megs cam will be teardrop shaped so the car will rise on the tip of the teardrop and roll over on the bottom. They'll need some strong feet for the cams though.
The Bodgers will be going for the much more difficult
approach of hydraulics. A hydraulic is a piston inside a sealed tube. The
pressure of a fluid (or air) being pumped into one end will force the piston
forward. The piston moves back into position and the cycle repeats. Their
machine will shuffle along having one set of hydraulics raise one platform,
slide another along and repeat towards the finish line. Tricky business
indeed.
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