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An $800 robot... mlw 07-06-2005
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Posted by The Artist Formerly Known as K on July 10, 2005, 2:04 pm
Randy M. Dumse wrote:
>
>>Gordon McComb wrote:
>>And what about the weaponry? He built a robot on a tank base and
>>omitted the WEAPONRY?
>
>
>
> There's a "pencil" launching cannon turret (spring launched, remote
> operations) which was taken off to get at the guts. The turret is
> motorized in azimuth at least. Don't think you can choose elevation.
> Some models shot those little soft BB balls, although I've never seen
> one of those in person.
>

Hmmm. I was thinking of something more along the lines of a frickin'
LASER beam.

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Posted by Randy M. Dumse on July 10, 2005, 2:37 pm
> Hmmm. I was thinking of something more along the lines of a frickin'
> LASER beam.


Actually, call me dense, but it hadn't yet occured to me the turret was
the perfect "scanner" to mount cameras and range finders on. (Slaps
forehead! Thwack!)

If I could replace that barrel with a .22 pistol, would that make you
happier? Someone mentioned adding a machette to the front of a rover
yesterday. I volunteered NOT to be there during that testing.

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Posted by The Artist Formerly Known as K on July 10, 2005, 3:41 pm
Randy M. Dumse wrote:
>
>>Hmmm. I was thinking of something more along the lines of a frickin'
>>LASER beam.
>
>
>
> Actually, call me dense, but it hadn't yet occured to me the turret was
> the perfect "scanner" to mount cameras and range finders on. (Slaps
> forehead! Thwack!)

You'd lack tilt copntrol, though, and I imagine you might be able to
more easily control the panning position with a standard hobby servo.

>
> If I could replace that barrel with a .22 pistol, would that make you
> happier? Someone mentioned adding a machette to the front of a rover
> yesterday. I volunteered NOT to be there during that testing.
>

I get requests to weaponize REGIS all the time. As IF...

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Posted by Brian Dean on July 8, 2005, 10:55 pm
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:28:51AM -0500, Randy M. Dumse wrote:

> Refering back to previous discussions: This is the $50 tank base with
> the $200 DDM added I've mentioned before.
>
> http://www.newmicros.com/Tank/Tank_DDM2.jpg
>
> Encoders are on output shafts.

Nice base - is NMI selling that for $50? Looks pretty nice especially
if it includes mounted encoders. I'd like to use my own electronics
of course, but the base is definitely something I'd be interested in.
Do you offer that seperately?

-Brian
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Posted by blueeyedpop on July 9, 2005, 9:24 am
I think that is the tank WallMart was selling some time back.

The neat thing about the DMM is you just plug in, and go...


> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:28:51AM -0500, Randy M. Dumse wrote:
> > Refering back to previous discussions: This is the $50 tank base with
> > the $200 DDM added I've mentioned before.
> > http://www.newmicros.com/Tank/Tank_DDM2.jpg
> > Encoders are on output shafts.
> Nice base - is NMI selling that for $50? Looks pretty nice especially
> if it includes mounted encoders. I'd like to use my own electronics
> of course, but the base is definitely something I'd be interested in.
> Do you offer that seperately?
> -Brian
> --
> Brian Dean
> ATmega128 based MAVRIC controllers
> http://www.bdmicro.com/



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