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Re: hmph
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Sun, 4 Feb 1996 20:09:56 GMT
Original-From: 
Jeffrey Keyzer <jkeyzer@calweb.ANTISPAMcom>
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How about buying a $15 RC car from radio shack and adding a $15 servo to
do the front steering?  I haven't tried it.  I'm using RC-10 cars and
they're GREAT.  Independent suspension, hispeed, good traction...
but several hundred dollars.

That's a definite possibility.  However, I'm looking more for
something that has a tread-type drive system, though two independently
driven wheels is fine.  That allows me to simplify steering the robot, so
that I can rotate it at a point.  Current draw of the motors is also an
issue, as I'd like to stay somewhere around an amp per motor.  Seems to me
that most R/C cars draw a few amps for their main drive motor...

Have you been able to actually get an RC-10 car working with the
handy board?  How do you control it?  A friend of mine was telling me that
it would be fun to drive around a robot at 20mph, but that the rear wheels
are driven by _incredibly_ high current motors.



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(...) How about buying a $15 RC car from radio shack and adding a $15 servo to do the front steering? I haven't tried it. I'm using RC-10 cars and they're GREAT. Independent suspension, hispeed, good traction... but several hundred dollars. -- (...) (29 years ago, 4-Feb-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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