ASK WOODY Thread

[psychostorm]

Woody,

As you are the guru to all things robotic:

Did the FRA get my application form and cheque after???

[kodster]

Woody, has Mr. Stu started threads like this before?

And Stu, Im asking Woody, not you.

[woody]

Stu has got a lot to answer for ....to the best of my knowledge this is a first.

Mr Stu

[woody]

Stus punishment....
Video of his first ever bot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqT-e_Wd9qI

He had a transmitter , receiver and servos for Xmas 2001.

His second attempt is much better

Feb 2002



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4wM7w5c6Fs



(Message edited by woody on May 17, 2007)

LOL!!!!! I remember getting my transmitter kit and just wanted to build something that MOVES! Least it moved. LOL good old days! LOL.... In the second video you see that disc go very close to my TFT screen i used to have.. mum has that screen now and theres still 3 deep cuts in the bottom of it. LOL.

Fair Play Woody

Mr Stu

[kodster]

[RogueTwoRobots]

Was that a LEM onto a Hardox disc you had running there?

What did you use as a disc and motor? The spinning ant I built used a CD drive motor from a PC which meant I had to carry a 9V battery on board if I wanted any decent speed/power. Then I took one of those round shiny discs from an old hard-drive, bolted some teeth to it, then fixed that to the motor shaft. Never took any videos of it though :sad:

[stu]

I think it was one of the drive motors that came with that Cybot from Real Robots Mag. Then yeah it just had a 9v battery there, used a servo to touch 2 peaces of wires together to turn it on. It wasnt an ant, just a bot i made with the spare servos i had to play with. The disc is the bottom of a coke can. LOL Then super glue to the motor shaft. Very safe. LOL. I bleieve the motor was about 12,000rpm at 4.8v and was running it at 9v, so god knows how fast it was going... waited for it to spin off. LOL!!

Mr Stu