Uses for a robot when its not being used.........

[calumco]

ill start

door stop or broken house hold appliance destroyer

[m2xt]

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We have an old M2 chassis as a garden feature, covered in ivy now but sits out there in all weathers!

[muchalucha]

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A while ago , i tried to build a heavy weight out of 2 electric scooters, it was far to weak for a fetaher weight , un controlable by RC and too big for a FW , it sat in the shed for ages until it became a kickass gokart !!!!

thats my use .

here are some pics ,


http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg11 ... IMG023.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg11 ... IMG022.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg11 ... IMG019.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg11 ... IMG020.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg11 ... IMG014.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg11 ... IMG015.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg11 ... IMG021.jpg

and heres the rw101 thread with more info if anyones interested .

http://www.robotwars101.org/phpBB/viewt ... c&start=15

[teamhunt]

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A carrier (After Brentwood, we just put the toolsboxes, ect on Hunter and used him to carry it all :P)
A Waiter (Just put the food on it, then it takes it! )

[joey_picus]

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Lawnmower for very small lawn?

[RogueTwoRobots]

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Testing Drumroll on the back garden patio revealed that it was an excellent mechanised form of removing weeds from in between the slabs

[geeza]

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DB5 has been used as a axle stand for my car and as a door stop on one of the big doors at Burgess Hill. It was also tried as a lawnmower, but it doesn't run very well on grass.

[team_orr]

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mythras: waiter, go cart, cool thing to scare kids, seat

antweights: scaring dogs :P

[muchalucha]

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antweights: scaring dogs

my dog stands ther barking at my FW and one day he picked it up and took it down the end of the garden

[Dalek_team]

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I think when you are not using your robot, you can get some sunglasses and a brown hat and put the hat on top of your robot with the sunglasses at the front , just for fun! .

[pressure]

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Puck....remote controlled coffee table!

[gravity]

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Gravity : Launching things into space ?

[Guest]

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Crushers- Breaking walnuts open
Flippers- Flipping pancakes or burgers (WARNING: Do NOT use Gravity or Wheely Big Cheese for this)
Axes- Chopping down trees???
Spinners- Venting anger