Innovative and Unusual Robotics

[sanddrag]

I'm curious as to what you found in office max to use for drive motors.

[RogerR]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I'm curious as to what you found in office max to use for drive motors.

maybe the motor(s) from a printer, shredder, or scanner?

[BrianBSL]

Originally Posted by RogerR

maybe the motor(s) from a printer, shredder, or scanner?

IIRC, you used to get a dot-matirx printer in the kit for parts.

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by BrianBSL

IIRC, you used to get a dot-matirx printer in the kit for parts.

in what years because i never knew about that

[Billfred]

I'm not sure of the exact years, but it was very early FIRST--1992 through 1995ish?

[John Gutmann]

wow way b4 my time

[AmyPrib]

Yes, I seem to recall some footage from 92-93 timeframe where someone pulled a typewriter (or something similar) out of the kit of parts, among various other objects.

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I'm curious as to what you found in office max to use for drive motors.

you could use motors from anything, i would say a pencil sharpener would be good because it would be easier to adapt a wheel to it