Potential lucky find We were cleaning out one of our storage closets here at work. During the cleanup an old server battery backup unit dropped and cracked in half. Inside of the unit was (10) 5mah sealed lead acid batteries. My company was throwing this equipment away anyway so now all 10 are mine....

Its been a couple of weeks since I last gave an update so I figured I would fill you in on the changes I have been making. T3's Control program has been rewritten numerous times and lots of changes and improvements have been made to the control interface. Including True differential drive control (t...

The video of the first real motor test is up. It moves ;) We did the test last night and it was way too squirrely to control. I re-wrote the control interface to drive like a true tank using two sticks. I am going to make some adjustments to secure some parts down better and hopefully will have some...

pics of the front feet are up on the photobucket site!

So how is it coming? You need to have Revan done man I have to have somebody to follow around with T3

I highly doubt it will ever see more than the ramp I am going to use it to load into a vehicle. I did cut out the front feet last night I also hollowed out the layers of the head so that they are not as heavy (the weight of the head was reduced by at least half). Hopefully I will have some moving vi...

Congrats guys! Way to go.

New pics are up

http://s287.photobucket.com/albums/ll15 ... 20Project/

got the front legs and shoulder joints attached. Hopefully I will have some video of T3 in motion soon. I still have a lot to do to get a base model ready for D*C wish me luck.

Did the first rolling motor test over the weekend. It responds to commands and the motor controller seems to be working as desired. I need to get the front legs mounted before I can really give it a good running test.

Well I haven't given a status report in a few days. I did get some work done to T3 over the weekend. I have the front legs cut out and in the raw form. I still need to draw and cut out the front feet, front shoulders, 2 small body panels and the rear feet panels. I have the rear drive pods installed...

Happy Birthday !

But yours isnt signed by Kenny Baker like Jamie's

Trenton and I assembled the guts of the rear drive pods. Cut out the other layers of the head. I hope to start cutting the front legs this week.


New pictures added to the photobucket site.

And don't show them that winning smile of yours (sorry for the bad Ned Beatty reference that is now in your heads....again)

Welcome you royal pain in the butt!