Mind sharing where you get your wheelchairs from?Originally Posted by daveimi
That's an absolute bargain that, been lucky to find one for less than £100 on eBay whenever I've looked
Yeah it would be easy enough to drill the spike to put heads on it.
And yeah you have to mobilise a weapon rather than add a weapon to an already built platform.
You could use the wheelchair ESC like they did on Gemini, have a look in the real robots mags
with servo's pulling the joystick?
yeah that what they did
I have some naff sketches of heavy! The basic gist is a grabbery thing. It will be less ramshackle than the sketches, I have been watching Youtube stuff a lot and there's a lot of flippers! I'd like to make bulkheads and put them together with an electric actuator powering the top plate. It's working title is "Croc" and the front edge will ride the ground lower and sort of grab hold of people and then I suppose put them in the pit or something less exciting. It isn't really to crush, in a sense, just grab. I'll paint it up with scales and eyes and all of that carry on. The movable top plate of the gob will have enough movement up to roll me back on my wheels if I get flipped. I'm hoping it will be something a bit different although the underpinnings will be pretty humble. Think wheelchair, SLA's, cheap speedos, a cheap lecky actuator and so on.
I think you might be onto something with the whole 'grab and pit' technique. It works like a charm for TaN! One idea I might throw in is maybe a small, slow-moving toothed drum on the bottom lip to help drag opponents into the jaws.
An electric actuator is actually a really good idea, because unlike a pneumatic one, you get the same amount of thrust in both directions.
Having looked at this I have a feeling this will be expensive and too hard to make. My normal technique of bolting rubbish together to see what I end up with is probably going to be better. It's served me well so far.
I'm not mega sure where to find a picture of the Gemini setup (don't have the mags), but I'm guessing it was a box holding the joystick with servos on each side? Then use coat hanger wire etc to connect them up?
i think the was a link to all the pages somewhere on the forum but if i cant find it i can always scan it in and post it
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