Peddler is a small, compact and fast robot. It cost about
250USD to build and took about three mounths to complete.
I built it alone without any outside help.
Size: Lenght 9" Width 8" Height 4.5"
Power: Peddler draws his power from four rechargible alkaline batteris, mounted in parrallel.
Control: Peddler uses a Futaba Atack two channel AM radio for control. Secondary motor control is atcheved with two
Duratrax Hobby speed controllers.
Speed: Peddler is very fast, I have yet to measure exactly how.
Weapons: Peddler has a set of (two or four, depending on my mood) spikes that can be fitted thrue the holes in his bumber.
Chassis: Peddlers chassis is made up of allumium pothole sheet.
Motors: Peddler uses two custom designed motors\gearboxs with custom mounting holes for its axles.
Wheels: Peddlers wheels\axles were taken from a toy RC car. I sent a sample axle to the company that was building my custom motors\gearboxs so they could fabricate a perfect
fit...works great. The wheels are four inch diamiter, fully pnumatic. One castor wheel is glued to the black eletronics box's bottom for stablization. I will be replacing it with two castors latter on for added stability.
Ground Clearence: Peddler stands proud about two centimeters of the ground.
Problems encounterd: Tends to flip to one side, this will be fixed with the addition of a second castor wheel to the back. Radio has some, not much, RF interference. Motors overheat and take a few seconds to cool off. Batteries only last for about 45 minuts of use.
lavalamp7@earthlink.net btw: my name is Dan Ushman.