I'm a Darwin award waiting to happen!
I made this!
Hello! I've been tinkering with scratch built RC tracked vehicles for a while now and I've finally made something that has a good shot at accidentally taking me out and thought I'd share the madness. I could always rent it out as a portable vasectomy machine! :-)
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JamHamster My eyes, my beautiful eyes!, Mon 29 Jul 2019, 19:30,
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Are you going to film hedgehogs with this?
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Mon 29 Jul 2019, 20:08,
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Pahahaha!
It is a little lacking in stealth for that sort of thing, :-)
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JamHamster My eyes, my beautiful eyes!, Mon 29 Jul 2019, 20:16,
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Perhaps it should be named "Here kitty kitty."
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BaronMunchausen Interdimensional Demon Day Laborer, Tue 30 Jul 2019, 17:42,
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I watched the video and for some reason the first word that came to mind was "degloving".
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 29 Jul 2019, 20:10,
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I fell off of it the other day
I dropped the remote, the batteries fell out and it sat spinning madly trying to do just that . It was comedy gold but not something I'd recommend.
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JamHamster My eyes, my beautiful eyes!, Mon 29 Jul 2019, 20:20,
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Dare I suggest a fail-safe might be in order?
Other than that, bloody great - I'm not sure what it is but the way it moves is proper sinister!
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Tue 30 Jul 2019, 18:19,
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You are correct and sensible in equal measure.
There is something a bit worrying about it, especially in person. The other half suggested that I ride it while she controlled it. I politely declined. :-)
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JamHamster My eyes, my beautiful eyes!, Wed 31 Jul 2019, 20:42,
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if it wasn't for a fundamental design flaw, you could use it to sort out those unruly.bushes...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Mon 29 Jul 2019, 21:44,
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I don't mind an unruly bush...
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JamHamster My eyes, my beautiful eyes!, Mon 29 Jul 2019, 22:30,
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Risk of moustache entanglement, rips like velcro.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 30 Jul 2019, 22:49,
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That's me letting go fo the control stick.
And now burping is all I will be able to hear. :-)
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JamHamster My eyes, my beautiful eyes!, Tue 30 Jul 2019, 8:54,
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Didn't Tandy sell some plastic grabby tatty tank like this in the 80s?
I can find the Radio Shack 'Iron Claw', but can't remember if it was the same thing. I think perhaps I got the look of it confused with their long-running robot arm.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=blvJGZAi-ig
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Jul 2019, 12:55,
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That's a new one on me
I've not seen that before, I could have just bought one of those and saved myself a bunch of time, lol!
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JamHamster My eyes, my beautiful eyes!, Tue 30 Jul 2019, 15:28,
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That reminds me..
I built something similar a while ago that would give it a run for its money.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMaaDY3OF28
:-)
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JamHamster My eyes, my beautiful eyes!, Tue 30 Jul 2019, 15:43,
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I think they would rather demolish it.
I love the tracked one, but I think you need to work on the speed of your linear actuators though! Not going to catch any knackers with a slow claw no matter how fast the tracks are...
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Jul 2019, 17:25,
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Wow! Now add a speaker
or maybe a phone, so it can 'talk' to people!
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