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Re: Using cheap RC chasis as 'bot
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:23:23 GMT
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Original-From:
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Jeffrey Keyzer <jkeyzer@!spamcake!calweb.com>
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> I am working on developing a skid steering based mobile robot platform
> which I intend to offer as a commerical product. If you have any input
> regarding the features (price, performance, design, etc.), I'd be very glad
> to hear from you! However, please send your input directly to me, rather
> than the whole Handyboard mail-list.
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> My main goal is to help the average robot
> hobbyist/student/educator/researcher get beyond the problem of building a
> mobile robot/computer! There are so many other cool things we should all be
> working on... like vision, adding personalities, speech, grippers, etc.!
> Yet we constantly seem to be talking about "how can I get my
> mini/handy/6.270 board to move". Let's get past this problem once and for
> all!
This would be great! I've always known that my mechanical skills
were nowhere near as good as my electronic/programming skills, and getting a
suitable base set up is a formidable problem for me. Something like what
you propose would be the perfect solution - as long as it was affordable!
All that is really needed is a drive/steering system and the room to mount
sensors and the handy board...
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 | | Re: Using cheap RC chasis as 'bot
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| OK, time for me to chime in on this thread... The biggest problem, IMHO, with using a cheap RC car/van/truck as a 'bot base is that they all use Ackerman steering (two non-steerable driven wheels in the back, two linked, steerable, non-driven wheels (...) (29 years ago, 6-Feb-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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