Tote bot

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by Mschmeh144

As my final project for this year, we are going to take a small grey game tote and turn it into a robot that pulls the " weeping angel" on you. For those who don't know what that is, basically, it'll follow you around and when you turn around it'll freeze in place, or drop to the ground and not move,depending on how complicated I want to make it. Dropping to the ground will require pneumatics parts that we don't have. It will look pretty much the same as a regular tote when its finished. Except with wheels, of course. Any ideas or helpful hints as to what I should use would be greatly appreciated. I am going to be using the old cRIO four slot and the old control system parts. The only problem is the drive system. The rest I can handle.

I seriously doubt that this function will "require" a pneumatic system. I am sure that you'll be able to come up with at least four different ways to do this without pneumatics. Don't limit yourself!

If you could describe what drive system components are available to you it might help you get more useful advice, and you might figure out something on your own. So, what do you have?