Ahhh, sounds like a toy.<br><br>I've got kits for robots. Here's one I'll donate to a noisebridge robotics project. Completely supported with replacement parts:<br><a href="http://www.coreyfro.com/lady-hopper/RS4-PRO-MT-3.jpg">http://www.coreyfro.com/lady-hopper/RS4-PRO-MT-3.jpg</a><br>
<a href="http://www.coreyfro.com/lady-hopper/bug-peace.jpg">http://www.coreyfro.com/lady-hopper/bug-peace.jpg</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Jared Dunne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jareddunne@gmail.com">jareddunne@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Corey-<br>
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I was playing with the RC car today. It has a rechargeable battery<br>
pack that looks like 6 AA batteries. The battery pack can disconnect<br>
from the car's wires, which I assume is how you charge it. Do you<br>
happen to have a charger for similar sounding RC batteries? It's<br>
pretty much dead now, so a charging solution is probably step one for<br>
turning it into a robot.<br>
<br>
It has a strange construction. It doesn't really have a top or<br>
bottom, meaning you can flip it over and it can drive "upside-down".<br>
Stranger yet, if you hold it by the front tires and pull it apart it<br>
hinges open changing form a U shape to a V shape. When you release<br>
it, it springs back to its normal position. I couldn't really figure<br>
out why that would be useful in an RC car design.<br>
<br>
The controller is really simple. The left stick controls the left<br>
wheels and the right stick controls the right wheels. For example,<br>
both sticks up is forward, both sticks down is reverse. One up and<br>
one down is spin in place.<br>
<br>
I'll be back at Noisebridge tomorrow, so I'll do further recon for you<br>
and report back. But my vague recollection was that the stickers<br>
labelling it had the words "Super" and "Stunt" on it, which might help<br>
in Googling for the exact model.<br>
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jared-<br>
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Corey McGuire <<a href="mailto:coreyfro@coreyfro.com">coreyfro@coreyfro.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Any pictures of the sweet ass RC car so I may ID it? Anyone wanna compete<br>
> in the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition? I have sweet ass RC cars,<br>
> but if one arrived at the space, it would be a fun project.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9016" target="_blank">http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9016</a><br>
><br>
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Simon C. Ion <<a href="mailto:ion.simon.c@gmail.com">ion.simon.c@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Two kind folks (whose names I have forgotten, alas) stopped by today with<br>
>> some donations for Noisebridge. They seemed pretty impressed with the<br>
>> MakerBot, the electron microscope and the robotic wheelchair. (Does the SEM<br>
>> work? If not, these kind folks know someone who might be able to help us fix<br>
>> it.)<br>
>><br>
>> They donated:<br>
>><br>
>> A sweet-ass RC car<br>
>> A CloneSafe Validator<br>
>> A boat-load of motors<br>
>> A Dremel<br>
>> Various battery holders<br>
>> A line-following robot<br>
>> Two Powershot (S400 and S410) Canon cameras. (The cameras seem to work,<br>
>> but the LCD screen on the S400 is broken.) Also, there is only one battery<br>
>> pack between the two of them.<br>
>> I've put the cameras in the darkroom. The remainder of the donations are<br>
>> in two boxes in the taped-off donation square.<br>
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