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A project log for Remote Control Land Strider

I got it in my head to build a Land Strider, pretty much just because I think they're neat.

douglas-millerDouglas Miller 02/22/2016 at 00:230 Comments

Okay, I know this video sucks. But I can explain. Lol. Been a busy few weeks on higher priority projects, and I have some boards coming tomorrow so I'll be busy on other stuff again.

Finally got back to this over the weekend, and wanted to get a video up showing how it's going, but the lights in that room suck, and anywhere else the dog would tear into it as soon as it starts to move. So I'm stuck with that lighting for the night. How is it going? Much better, thank you! I drastically beefed up the push rods, modified the legs a bit to spread them out and give them less bend, and made a few other small changes. Oh, did I tell you I gave up on those high speed motors? Well, I did. But instead of ordering more I went the cheap route and pulled some stepper motors off the shelf, tossed in a Rambo board I had sitting around, and changed the motor mounts to hold the steppers. NOW I have control! The speed in the video is about 25% of top speed. I'll work out any more bugs before I run it at fun, er, I mean full, speed. I still want to get this done in time to take it to the midwest reprap festive coming in a few weeks, but it's looking like it's going to be close. With any luck I'll get it done (last minute, I'm sure) and if you come to the MRRF we can run it around and break it in a loud and messy manner in front of a few hundred witnesses. :P

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