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Remote Controlled Basket Ball Robot - HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS -

Step 9VIDEO of The Ball In Motion

VIDEO of The Ball In Motion
Here's a Video of the Basketball In Motion



And here's one of the hamster ball without the basketball so you can see the insides.



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9 comments
Oct 4, 2010. 2:59 PMTobor 2.0 says:
try making it small enough to fit in a tennis ball and post the instructions. if you already have and i missed it pleas say so.
Feb 5, 2009. 10:27 PMnecropolian says:
very supercalifragilisticexpialidociously cool! can you play basketball with it whitout destroying the inner technologies? 5*
Feb 6, 2009. 11:16 PMnecropolian says:
and if it could bounce without 'pushing up the daisies' it still would be useless because you can't control it when it touches the ground only fractions of a second. and on bumpy grounds it would be a pyrrhic victory if you were able to bounce it into a specific spot...
Jun 23, 2009. 11:08 PMbsamuels453 says:
it doesn't need to be on the ground in order to change the ball's trajectory, just wobbling the steering chassis back and forth would create a noticeably strange effect
Jun 26, 2009. 12:17 AMnecropolian says:
but still, it is much less controllable in midflight. the steering has more effect on solid ground. but it is still very cool.
Jun 26, 2009. 10:36 AMnecropolian says:
with bouncing i mean that it can survive a bounce, not bounce by itself. i think you can place the ball in a larger ball, by connecting it with rubber bands to the inside of that bigger ball. the rubber bands absorb the shock.
Feb 12, 2009. 10:08 PMnotanemo says:
you stole my idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRR!!!!!!! i made one of these out of lego, but i did not have a ball to put it in, so that was made of lego too. still, you stole my idea!
Feb 13, 2009. 6:49 PMnotanemo says:
i destroyed it so i could make a knife holder that you attatch to your arm so when you swing your hand in a certain way the knife shoots out and hits some one............... and no, they dont. it was just two normal lego motors conected to a lego hail-fire droid's weel. one of the motors was connected to it so the weel swiveled around the whole thing, and the other moved the weel in a circle so it could turn. the rcx 2.0 'brain' was at the bottom to act as a weight so motor no 1 could move the thing. the weel was connected to a series of 6-stud beams that where in circles around the weel to make a sphere. but it is dead now...
Feb 13, 2009. 4:55 AMDarkknarf says:
Then you should have posted it.
Feb 5, 2009. 7:35 PMphirzcol says:
Such a device of wonder. Hmm to use for good, No to use for evil Muahhh haaaa haaa. When do we get to see the prank videos?
Feb 9, 2009. 2:34 PMHayhick says:
How do you re-charge the car
Feb 8, 2009. 3:50 AMneardood says:
i reckon that is the coolest RC thing but it obviously has its uses for pranks such as ghosts or just for a laugh
Feb 10, 2009. 10:01 AMtinkerC says:
Teen 1: Lets shoot some hoops. . . . . Hey there's a ball.
RC watching: Start ball rolling
Teen 2: Hey, come back here!
RC: Snicker

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I would love to find a job where I could play with fabrication tools all day and be creative. Anyone have a suggestion?