Working Spider Tank Model - you can ... build!??

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A Working Spider Tank Model - you can ... build!??
. yup! Spiders are now creepy-cool to build and if your good
with Plastics & making your own Cut-Outs then "Have I Got A Project For You!"


. Tanks are my hobby; Spider Tanks are my Dream.
My Intro-Video is at http://youtu.be/pecXQFD7xEc

. The engineers Plans are in THIS Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is7x_atNl94

Warning: if you don't like Creeping Thing, ignore this weekend Hobby-Build.

-- jw

P.S. .. yes, I built mine in a weekend -- if I can do it; you can do it!

[catgod]

Amazon.com: Hasbro i-Spider Robotic Music Loving Arachnid - White: Toys & Games.

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Yup, there are toys that crawl - agreed.

. What interest me was a way to have the turret point the direction it would travel. Yours is not capable of doing such; its a minor set-back to tanks "to wait for the tracks direction to face the way you need to travel".

. This is not a new concept, following the turret direction; whats new is "this 360° directional responce."

. Impressive concept when you only turn the view finder and the legs respond to it!

[ZephyrStar]

So, in order to take this to the next level...

-Raspberry Pi + motion sensor
-Bunch of servo motors
-Paintball gun

I think you know where this is headed.

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I'm working on a redesign of the legs:
1) to apply and climb the inside of a Vertical PVC Pipe Horizontally.
2) to jump up and over 9"s to exit the pipe w/o climbing ^__^

Now if I can get my modified model to Jump, as if spring loaded, in the direction its facing T__T ....