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Turrets for Robowars
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:54:56 GMT
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Rich Thompson <rich_thompson@cmcsmart.com/SayNoToSpam/>
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Thinking about Robowars, I expanded on the idea a bit to include all out
warfare with multiple robots in teams.
I put together a quick guard turret that spins, tracks direction, and fires
missiles from the cyber slam cannons. Perfect to guard your home territory.
I am attempting to design several types of war machines that work in teams
and use a standard communication protocol (1=attack, 2=patrol, 3=stalk,
4=halt, 5=formation, etc.). I think for war machines, you could implement
everything from at-at style walkers (star wars) to carriers that launch
small single motored ramming devices (one engine, four wheels, no RCX,
geared for speed, run around and make chaos) and, of course, tanks. If you
were really good, you could make string based flyers. Though, I don't know
how one would target from any distance. Also, combat minifigs...the
expendable infantry.
I only have one RCX for now, with another coming this month and I will
undoubtedly add more. Right now, I will just make these one at a time.
Is anyone else making warbots?
The Turret is under radarbots (for now) on my web page...
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Rich Thompson
rich_thompson@cmcsmart.com
http://rich.cmcsmart.com
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| Rich: this looked real nice. I thought I was the only person melding the cyber cannon and the mindstorms. my first "trick' was to place all 4 in a line, then run a "camshaft" over the firing mech.. it was fun to watch them fire in sequence. then I (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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