[enrgizerbunny]

Greetings! I am the said deployed Marine of this thread.

I'm not asking for a kit or anything major, just looking for some electronics that I won't be able to find out here. We haven't decided exactly what this bot is going to do, but we're going to start with making a drive train, tread driven(that's all we have currently). Haven't figured out motors yet, there's some winch motors which I'm sure would have ample torque for the task, I'm still searching for a wiper motor (looks like the window motor with a worm gear in the FIRST kits). I found a gearbox witha 1.84 ratio, don't know what it went to, but it had chain and sprockets attached. I'm hoping they throw another one away soon. There isn't much to choose from, but I think I've got most the hardware that is required already out here. We're still seeing if we can get enough scrap together to make this hunk of junk (literally) come together and work. It's 4:15 am here, I'll be busy for the next couple weeks, so I've got a kink in the project for a little bit. There are issues that I need to work out too, most things around here are 24VDC, not 12 since that's what all the vehicles batteries are, so I've gotta make sure all that will work too.

I'm looking for a controller (an old IFI controller would be a godsend),two joysticks and couple speed controllers, a copy of the software to program said controller, and any ideas on making the latter work with Windows 7. I don't want to ask for much, but my preference would be one that is programmed in C. If not, I can figure it out. I'm still figuring out a couple things like circuit breakers, etc. I figure I might order some from radio shack or online.

Oh, of course there will be picture of the finished product, probably video, and I wouldn't doubt there will be at least one case of an out of control, stuck in autonomous, HOLY-CRAP-CUT-THE-POWER-IT'S-GONNA-KILL-SOMEBODY robot.


It took me an entire hour to register, confirm and get the link for the picture on my sig from another forum I'm on. I haven't been on a connection this slow since the 20th century, haha.