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I bought a 1/16 King Tiger in 2013, intending to gut it and put a small Linux computer in it. Had some progress (took a while to understand the motor controller
by jauntywundrkind 3y ago
I bought a 1/16 King Tiger in 2013, intending to gut it and put a small Linux computer in it. Had some progress (took a while to understand the motor controllers were really bad i2c, couldn't read values out, only write), but ultimately didn't get far.
Alas I never turned it into a mobile webcam, which would have been amsuing during covid - a lone computer-tank wandering the office.
- Terr_ 3y agoI'm imagining it with a little speaker that plays a theme song which pauses whenever it stops moving, one tuned to the correct mix of triumphal amusing attention seeking [0] versus annoying a human into disabling it. Just remember to stop before making it able to recharge/replace its own batteries. For safety reasons. [0] https://open.spotify.com/track/2vH4H9RThw2wxCTdZEGV2p https://open.spotify.com/track/2vH4H9RThw2wxCTdZEGV2p
- mft_ 3y agoI’ve had this on my Amazon list for ages now, but have never quite found a reason to make the purchase: https://amzn.eu/d/0jSspfR https://amzn.eu/d/0jSspfR
- maxlin 3y agoLol. I want to have a reason to buy that. It's obviously been built to try to cover a lot of use cases, being capable of returning to charger remotely, working as a low-end camera plaform for temporary surveillance / notifications of movement, mic/speaker etc
- numpad0 3y agoI never understood why omni/mecanum wheels hadn't replaced every wheels on everything ever. It's so cool, functional, and cool. Apparently it's something every real roboticists know from having handled it, that they don't work on slopes. So it stays on my bucket list too.