 | | MOC: Radio Controlled Tank. —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | Hi. Here's a tank I made during the weekend, it has radio controll so beware LEGO purists ,) (URL) used a five channel radio, five servos, five polarity switches and five motors to make this work. It has two motors for drive, left and right track, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics) !
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| | | | | Re: Radio Controlled Tank. —Joakim Olsson
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| | | | | "Tobbe Arnesson" <tnt@arnesson.nu> wrote in message news:3a01462c.517105...net.com... (...) Very nice! How many 8480 did you use, and where did you find the tracks (threads?) ;-) *Gimme some* /J (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: Radio Controlled Tank. —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | | | | | (...) Thank you! (...) *think* Thread is perhaps a better word, I struggled a tad on that one. My ex. co-worker stole back her dictionary when she left, dang! *searching* Technica, which is a nomine for cool site of the week BTW, claims it's labeled (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: Radio Controlled Tank. —Amnon Silverstein
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| | | | | | (...) Those treads are a Dacta item. You can bulk order them. They are somewhat slippery for use as treads. They are like the chain links with an extra bar molded over the top of each link. I think Dacta calls them conveyer belt links. (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Radio Controlled Tank. —Jennifer Clark
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| | | | | (...) Nice work Tobbe! For some reason it reminds me of the tank in the Tank Girl movie, a good feature if you ask me :-) I'm looking forward to seeing the mpegs. Where on earth did you get all the wide caterpillar tracks BTW? Getting that amount (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOC: Radio Controlled Tank. —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks! So do I :) (...) It's from before my dark ages, mainly the 8851 Excavator and the 8660 Arctic Rescue, I also got two with the 8843 Fork Lift truck. They usually look better then they work since they tend to slip a lot, but in this case (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOC: Radio Controlled Tank. —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | | (...) Here's an idea you can try to have them slip a bit less. Do you have the ordinary chain links too? Then ones without the wide tread? If so use an ordinary chain link for every third link, say. Like this: ##=##=##=##= Perhaps this will give (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOC: Radio Controlled Tank. —Mark Haye
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| | | | | | Tobbe, This is a nice looking model, especially with all the functions. As to more traction, you could use alternating regular chain links and tread links and mount a 1x4 plate on each tread link, studs out. I'm not sure how realistic this would (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOC: Radio Controlled Tank. —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | | | | (...) Thx. (...) I use a 1x3 plate when I want more traction. The problem is that the plates often get ripped of when driving... I prefer the low-friction solution. I am thinking that some glue from my glue gun on each tread link will do the trick. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: Radio Controlled Tank. —Gaurav Thakur
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| | | | (...) Wow...this creation looks awesome. Great work! (...) Heheh...That seems like it would be really neat...they must have been quite surprised :-) As a side note, does anyone know how one can get extra polarity switches? They appear in some older (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: MOC: Radio Controlled Tank. —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | | (...) Thanks :) (...) Yes, they sure were. One of 'em I even managed to scare twice, first when the tank entered the room and then when it actually fired a projectile :) To bad it takes almost half a minute to set the cannon horisontally, I have to (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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