Beware of the horrible pumpkin bots ....

Beware of the horrible pumpkin bots ....
These bots are all dangerous!
They came over me with full force. I did not expect them to be this powerful. Hopefully they all lose their energy very soon ... ;-)


 
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Step 1What you need

What you need
It helps a lot if you own many many things that you got out of old electronic devices. I used motors from old XBOX gamepads to make the robots shake ... and move. I used old motors from useless floppy disk drives to build a the crawler.
out of old pc mainboards I got battery holders and 3V button batteries. Also LEDs or resistors could be sourced out of old electronic parts.
To make the radio controlled mover I bought a bunch of radio controlled mini cars. I got 27Mhz and 40Mhz cars so that I can guide two robots at the same time.
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Nov 7, 2007. 5:33 AMReKa says:
Holla,

the "Räucherkerzen" on top of the pumpkin head are called "incense". The smoke of it is also called incense.
(http://dict.leo.org/ende?search=Incense)

Bye,
ReKa
Oct 29, 2007. 4:47 PMDarkshot says:
FRICKIN SWEET!! im makin "the crawler" as soon as i can i just need to buy some parts.....YAY!! so excited :P
Oct 30, 2007. 6:18 PMDarkshot says:
lol i saw the digicam vid lol that was funny! enyway i think i'll buy them enyway because they need to be the same speed for maximum rideage plus i took apart everything i have that has a motor and used it ;( thanks for the cool instructable!!
Oct 29, 2007. 11:00 PMthewoodcarver says:
Good reuse of old parts ,Very Cool! I do science projects with kids at my sons school and seldom buy anything new ...the district has a junk yard that has lots of old computers and other reusable treasures....now to find some pumpkin heads
Oct 29, 2007. 9:38 PMdarkmuskrat says:
I might not be able to sleep tonight... "Ah, what was that!"
Oct 29, 2007. 4:18 PMcowscankill says:
i like the crawler...

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radio amateur since i was 16, education in electronics, built extension-cards for ibm pc, build machines to make concrete, studied communications engineering, had a dot-com company in the late ninetie...
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