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From: "Henry Verheggen" <henryverheggen-at-earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: cool tank-robot [TANKS]
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:25:26 -0400
Reply-To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
Very interesting. Will your robot need a sparring partner? I was thinking of building a model of a German "Fennek". It's a low profile recon vehicle with a telescoping sensor mask. I'd like to put my design for a thermal imaging sensor on something.
 
http://www.rk-gammertingen.de/fennek.html
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Gene Burbeck
To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
Sent: 9/6/2007 12:03:00 PM
Subject: RE: cool tank-robot [TANKS]

"Gene, what kind of track design are you using?"
 
Snow blower tracks with my home-made track sprockets.
 
 
The tracks are too short for being rctankcombat legal, but that is not the intention of this project. What I'm trying to do here is make a prototype for a machine with similar capabilities to a soldier on a (REAL)battlefield. The prototype will use a paitball marker on a gyro-stabilized turret. The chassis will have two modes of driving: moving around like a tank - akin to a soldier crawling, and standing up like a segway to bring the marker to eye-level and shoot over obstacles. I've got the segway balancing and moving part working on a little wheeled platform of about three pounds, now I need to implement this control on the actual vehicle. The turret platform swivles above the chassis to stay horizontal and above the chassis in the two different driving modes - prone or standing.
 
Gene

From: tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com [mailto:tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com] On Behalf Of Henry Verheggen
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:49 AM
To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
Subject: RE: cool tank-robot [TANKS]

Gene, what kind of track design are you using?
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Gene Burbeck
To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
Sent: 9/6/2007 11:46:52 AM
Subject: RE: cool tank-robot [TANKS]

Hmm, looks like something I built. A second generation is in the works :)
 
Gene

From: tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com [mailto:tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com] On Behalf Of Henry Verheggen
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:17 AM
To: tanks
Subject: cool tank-robot [TANKS]

Check out the track design - multiple roller chains.
 
PASIV
http://robots.net/robomenu/1061506898.html