Roboticinfo

Shoot I never had a crazy project, all the projects were just geeky but not crazy.

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zachtheterrible

Well, if i were you i'd start with a potato gun :twisted:

I fired it off once in the garage (with only a sock stuffed down it) and it shook the entire house :lol: I forgot how much fun that thing is, maybe I'll take it out for a spin again.

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Roboticinfo

Well me and my friend were making a mini jet powered go kart but then we stoped.

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zachtheterrible

How can you stop on that!?!? SWEET!!

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Roboticinfo

He went on vacation and were back in school so no time if we did havetime we would try to finished.

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jrz126

My mom works in a pharmacy and she was able to bring dry ice home acouple of times. put a piece of that in a container with a little water and seal it and it'll give you a nice *pop*
Whenever she brought it home my friends and I would scrounge all of the plastic containers we could get our hands on...Those were the days.

I'm rather surprised that there are hardly any crazy projects posted here.

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zachtheterrible

You just wait 'till 10 years down the road, I'll have some pretty crazy projects :twisted:

Wow, 10 years down the road . . . wonder if this forum will still be around. It better!

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MrMikey83

Here's a cannon bot that my microcontrollers class built last year. Its chasis is an old bomb disposal robot donated by the police department. Its radio controlled and is able to shoot rolled up t-shirts and even sub sandwhiches. We have an auto loader to shoot small rubber basketballs at the ball games but so far we have been unable to find a ball with the correct diameter that wont allow too much air to flow around it.
It has enough pressure to shoot a t-shirt to the upper decks. It recently got a new paintjob or gold/maroon and some cold cathode lighting effects. Our instructor failed to decure the cold cathode wiring. The drive shaft for one of the wheels caught the wire and ripped the entire light fixture off the bot.
SOmeone has to manually load the t-shirts and use the big stick to push them to the bottom of the barrel. Any ideas on automating this process?
~Mike

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Roboticinfo

Thats nothing compared to what my friend built with his friends. He built a canon the could shoot a beer 2 stories high and you can catch it perfectly.

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roboticmisinfo

Always bigger & better than everyone else. You're slipping back into your old ways.

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Roboticinfo

First of all I never built it I have seen it and he has been on tv before showing what he made. It wasn't exactly just by him self, the place he works at built him but he was one of the main member that built it. He has a lot of crazy projects like I mean really crazy. He is my partner in robotic competition and he has a lot of knowledge.

He works at this place

www.thecrucible.org

He is the kinectics teacher there I think adavanced and last year he was the electronics teacher.

Plus that place is where we make are robots for the competition.
Any tool you could think of is there and more then one. You could even do metal molds and they have a black smith room there although never used it.

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audioguru

Great school. They even teach you how to eat fire. 8) 8)

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Roboticinfo

I don't goto that school, I just build are competition robots there because there are a end-less supply of tools there well not endless but you know what I mean.

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madmikejt12

some good projects here.
I like the speaker ball project, i'll have to try that sometime :lol:

Anyway, i havn't realy done any projects, although i have put a speaker amp in a 5.25" bay in my computer and put 2 jacks in a spare pci slot and i have a switch to change between them.

Klaus

You could fit a vacuum pump and a receiver tank. Opening a ball valve would dump the tank's vacuum into the barrel, dragging down the T-shirt that was stuffed into the barrel mouth. Or you could convert the barrels to breech loading. Or.... :wink: