[Noisebridge-discuss] New donations

[Jared Dunne]

Yes, Corey, it's more of a toy than a pro RC car.  That said, the way
it can turn around in place is handy, but overall its not hack
friendly as I'd imagined.

Neat, that peace bug has a lot of room in the cabin for all sorts of
brains and sensors.  Is that designed specifically as part of a
robotic kit?  Or just an RC car asking to be hacked?

jared-

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com> wrote:
> Ahhh, sounds like a toy.
>
> I've got kits for robots.  Here's one I'll donate to a noisebridge robotics
> project.  Completely supported with replacement parts:
> http://www.coreyfro.com/lady-hopper/RS4-PRO-MT-3.jpg
> http://www.coreyfro.com/lady-hopper/bug-peace.jpg
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Jared Dunne <jareddunne at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Corey-
>>
>> I was playing with the RC car today.  It has a rechargeable battery
>> pack that looks like 6 AA batteries.  The battery pack can disconnect
>> from the car's wires, which I assume is how you charge it.  Do you
>> happen to have a charger for similar sounding RC batteries?  It's
>> pretty much dead now, so a charging solution is probably step one for
>> turning it into a robot.
>>
>> It has a strange construction.  It doesn't really have a top or
>> bottom, meaning you can flip it over and it can drive "upside-down".
>> Stranger yet, if you hold it by the front tires and pull it apart it
>> hinges open changing form a U shape to a V shape.  When you release
>> it, it springs back to its normal position.  I couldn't really figure
>> out why that would be useful in an RC car design.
>>
>> The controller is really simple.  The left stick controls the left
>> wheels and the right stick controls the right wheels.  For example,
>> both sticks up is forward, both sticks down is reverse.  One up and
>> one down is spin in place.
>>
>> I'll be back at Noisebridge tomorrow, so I'll do further recon for you
>> and report back.  But my vague recollection was that the stickers
>> labelling it had the words "Super" and "Stunt" on it, which might help
>> in Googling for the exact model.
>>
>> jared-
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Any pictures of the sweet ass RC car so I may ID it?  Anyone wanna
>> > compete
>> > in the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition?  I have sweet ass RC
>> > cars,
>> > but if one arrived at the space, it would be a fun project.
>> >
>> > http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9016
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Simon C. Ion <ion.simon.c at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Two kind folks (whose names I have forgotten, alas) stopped by today
>> >> with
>> >> some donations for Noisebridge. They seemed pretty impressed with the
>> >> MakerBot, the electron microscope and the robotic wheelchair. (Does the
>> >> SEM
>> >> work? If not, these kind folks know someone who might be able to help
>> >> us fix
>> >> it.)
>> >>
>> >> They donated:
>> >>
>> >> A sweet-ass RC car
>> >> A CloneSafe Validator
>> >> A boat-load of motors
>> >> A Dremel
>> >> Various battery holders
>> >> A line-following robot
>> >> Two Powershot (S400 and S410) Canon cameras. (The cameras seem to work,
>> >> but the LCD screen on the S400 is broken.) Also, there is only one
>> >> battery
>> >> pack between the two of them.
>> >> I've put the cameras in the darkroom. The remainder of the donations
>> >> are
>> >> in two boxes in the taped-off donation square.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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