1. Home
  2. General Robotics Forum
  3. "Hen Long" R/C tanks as base?

"Hen Long" R/C tanks as base?

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has had a go at modifying one of those "battle tanks" R/C tank toys for use as a robot base? There are a load on ebay going fairly cheap and they look like they are a decent size, and also come with prebuilt battery and charger etc which lasts apparently

60mins, which would be useful I suspect.

This is the sort of scale:

formatting link
(not my image - found on google)

Anyone had a go at hacking one of these? Is it easy to strip out all of the turret/firing kit etc (these things have rotating turret and can fire small pellets or something) leave a fairly useful base to work with?

Thanks

Matt

Reply to
Matt Dibb
Loading thread data ...

What were you planning on doing? Adding a real gun?

There's probably a market for that.

Reply to
John Nagle

It occurred to me also as a cheap robot base. Replace the radio control with a PC interface and plonk one of those spy video cameras that come with a wireless tx to create your own little Mars explorer. The rotating turret would be useful for the camera I think?

John

Reply to
JC

PolyTech Forum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.