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Yeah lego pneumatics are awesome sept you have to build your own pump and your own ways of automating the swtiches, they arent really made to be put on mindstorms kits. There are TONs of crazy things lego makes that you woulda never known. Por Ejemplo, where he has thoes extra motors sitting? You could get the lego weight modules, each one is 2 times the weight of the motor is, and about half the size! If you wanted to winch that bot up, you could get the old school hooks from thier crane kits, they were made of steel! Or if you really wanted to pump up the power you use micro motors to actuate the lego polarity switches, and wire 2 battery boxes in parallel! Theres alot of tricks out there...

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What?!?! Dismantaled! :)

Do you have a bunch of detailed images of it/deconstruction images? If you do I might be willing to put some (hours) into modeling that in LDraw so that others could build it. 'Course, you'd have to give me permission to. :) And I might never finish; it's hard to do without a physical model... :)

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um....im sorry..... :( i really didnt have enough pieces to to work on my next project so..... well.... youll probably see me posting pics of next years robots prototype a few days after kickoff. remind me then and ill take pictures of its dismantallation :confused: piece by piece.
well, just for curious people, my next LEGO project after this one was a omnidrive robot... yeah.. the model was very nice but the program became too big...the RCX didnt have enough memory to actually download it in. so... i either need to get more RCXs, or maybe learn how to use the edubot and learn how to program and learn how to connect everything to the edubot.....

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nice! :cool: how many legos used to build it? how strong is it?

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WOW that is awesome!!! :ahh:

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Pretty cool. How many motors do you have on that thing?

I used to play with Legos all the time when I was younger. I have loads of them, perhaps I should teach my eight year old brother how to use them..

I sorted thousands of them by color a few years ago. :)

Has anyone of you seen the Lego Technic Space Shuttle that came out years ago? I dug through my huge pile of legos to rebuild my shuttle a few years ago and it is now in my room on display.

It used 1 of the older style motors to control 4 different things, but only let you do one function at a time. It also used one of the MINI motors to open and close the sattelite's solar panels.

Here is what it looked like:

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Thats a realy nice robot - especialy because its made out of legos. I've never used legos for prototyping something that complex but now I see thats its possible.