off road non-combat project ideas

hi all

For my course at school, I can build some sort of non-combat robot, but i really cant think of any ideas

all i really want from it is to be able to drive it off road, look visually ok and not cost me an absolute bomb.

can anyone help me think of any ideas?

thanks all
matt

My off roader

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOflL6MYpAk

Big wheels and high ground clearance are a must (perhaps borrow St Hammer :lame:)

Does it have to be offroad? If not you could just use your robot and say its for picking stuff up and moving it

or axe ones u could say to chop tomatos :)

imainly want it off road since there is a massive open green around my house which i could really have some fun at :)

build a saint type machine with huge wheels powered by wheel chair motors or similar. Couple of electronize and some nimh. Job done.

Not sure how much they are costing, but I remember seeing somewhere that Shane Swan had a supply of wheelchair motors, wheels speed controllers and possibly batteries (although I may be wrong on the batteries). Eric is using wheelchair motors and controller so it will work and if you don't want it for combat you might get away with using the batteries too.

i have 3 battreys for sale 2 are 12v ones 4000mah other 4700mah

the other one i think 9.6 v 3300 mah if that helps

I think you would really struggle with those batteries on wheelchair motors.