"I agree with you 100%. Granted this thing is very impressive, and fast (too fast). Using pneumatic in the winter is a bad idea unless you use nitrogen, or very dry air. Nitrogen is thermally stable. I am sure you have heard the story,
A customer…"
"Mike, the kill switches (4) would be on the unit, one on each corner, already thought of that. At first the safety operator would be behind the unit carrying a switch attached to a tether, attached to the machine, not unlike the dead-mans switch, in…"
"Hi Mike, I backed off my original concept, a robotic snow blower I decided it would be a huge liability, wouldn't take much to chew up and spit out the neighbor's Chihuahua, or a curious child. A blade is a more passive choice, but still…"
Well it is November again. Which to some of us means a chance of snow. I was sitting around yesterday, looking for something to do. Well I found it. Thinking back a year ago, I remembered, how much my back hurt, from shoveling my walks.Several years…
"I was just looking at part15, I am not sure exactly what frequency the 2.4 GHz transmitters. Seems that the mfrs of these radios aren't willing to share that info, or maybe aren't required to.
From what I can glean looks like max power for these…"
"You guys at least in the US may run into issues adding power boosters to standard RC radios.
Before you operate at a higher power, you may want to check, the FCC rules for requirements.
Not all bad though, as licensed Amateur Radio Operators, of…"
"Samuel, have you tried Google Sketchup? yeah I know it is not a CAD program as such, it is also not parametric. But it works real good for sketching ideas!
If you click on my name and find my posts, and/or my blog you will see that it works quite…"
"I am not much of a software guy, more of a hardware guy. I have a friend that calls me toaster, as in appliance user. That being said, my strong point is design of platforms for various applications, they tend to be over engineered, but durable, and…"
"I watched part of the video, I didn't wait for the dog poo incident. Your project has my attention. I looked at some video online featuring rock crawlers. I will see if I can find that again."
I like aircraft don't get me wrong. It seems however, there is not much activity on surface vehicles here. Is there just a lack of interest?, a lack of ideas?, or is it a lack of application or purpose?It seems the ArduRover, doesn't get much…
Yesterday when I found this group I was quite surprised with the whole project. One thing in particular I noticed was there are people that think like me. These people have come up with a device than can do the things I have wanted to do for at…
My latest concept. Designed for rough terrain GIS, Surveying, Security applications. I haven't worked it all out yet, But with Ardu it may finally come to be a reality. I really didn't want to use electric propulsion, but technology hasn't caught…
Ryan Trullinger Interesting post, thanks for the link!. I am still hesitant to go electric, mainly because if you want enough power to go a certain speed, say 5 MPH, and your machine weighs 200lbs, you need bigger or more batteries, now your machine weighs 300 lbs.…
Oct 16, 2011
Ryan Trullinger Hi Thomas, I have considered a suspension system, but given the basically simple control of a skid-steer platform, the suspension would be trashed in a few runs. I am not an engineer just an idea guy, so simple works for me. Figuring out how to…