Ok now I'm inspired I need more than R/C on mine. I've started collecting more parts. first thing to do is make a holder for my spare laptop.
i wanted to use a laptop because it has the keyboard and screen all there for you in one. but later down the line im going to buy a 7 inch touchscreen lcd and put on the rover (nice touch to add) hooking my spare crt every time is annoying lol
i got my flash card in the mail a few days ago, i installed everything on it, but i haven't test drove the robot yet. i was expecting for the computer to function slow cuz its running of cf card, i was right it runs slow but not to bad, its faster the one might think. i also placed an order for a Phidgets Servo 4-Motor Controller and this cool servo relay Electronic R/C PWM Switch (RC-100X) i also bought a Spyder E99 paintball gun and took it apart and stuff. i have it firing from this relay board i have connected to my computer, and for kicks i used autoit to fire the gun via the internet. i like the gun a lot i can do many things with the board, and a good note is the gun shoots real nice and straight. i also bought this co2 coil hose from ebay so i can mount the tank somewhere out of the way. the pwm switch is going to be the firing relay that hooks into the servo board, and 2 other servos will also hook up so i can pan/tilt the gun. i yet to design a pan tilt system or pick out my servos, but i will get to that when the parts i ordered come in
heres is the cf card and heres a messing picture of me installing stuff to the bot this is the spyder E99 paintball gun thats going to make the turret, and i get to get my co2 coil hose a shot of the e-grip, its a straight forward circuit, you can see the 2 tapped wires i have there, those connect to a relay here is the phidgets 4-servo controller i got port 0 will be for the relay, 1 for pan servo, 2 for tilt servo, and 3 for something i donno yet. i yet to buy the pan/tilt servos but when i do port 1 2 and 3 will need external dc power, and port 0 runs off the usb power, thats just how the board works. this is the servo rc relay, i can hook this up to the servo board and control its thusly and a shot of the servo board with the rc relay hooked to it, which is then connected to the gun, and this is all hooked to the computer via usb. (click on an image to see a bigger view)
