pic: i actually never posted these prototype4

[Andrew Rudolph]

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...

[greencactus3]

Originally Posted by Pin Man

Nice looking robot there... Does it have any power? If it does what kind?

2 rcxs on the robot, 1 rcx for the controls. wireless via IR

Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish

so are all your pnewmatic valves manupliated by motors or do you stick your hands in there and do it manually?

controlled by motors.

this was a FULLY functional model. did EVERYTHING our real one on smaller scale...actually better than the real one
oh yes, it was a 4wheel drive/ 2wheel drive just like our real robot..
im quite proud of that accomplishment

[jonathan lall]

Originally Posted by greencactus3

im quite proud of that accomplishment

As you should be. This is ridiculous. If only my Lego League team could do this... heck, I couldn't.

[c_diddy17]

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

[Bcahn836]

WOW that is awesome!!!

[team222badbrad]

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: