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March 10, 2008 05:30 PM

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milw

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Here's some pictures of the EL wire mod that I'm doing on my roboquad. We got the EL wire from VibeLights; some will be used to make a Halo Energy Sword. I'm also changing some of the LEDs to blue and yellow, will have photos of that after its done. After taking the top shell off, I drilled small holes all way around the rim of the lower shell for the tie wires to go in.

Holes

I'm working my way around, using a loop of wire with the ends threaded through the hole and then twisted inside the shell. After twisting, I nip off the ends and bend the twisted portion down so the loop is tight, and then apply a drop of CA (cyanoacrylate, crazy glue) to the wire on the inside.

Wiring

Here's a test of the EL wire with McReptile looking on. This is running off of a 2x AA-powered mini-inverter. It's kind of noisy (high pitched whine) so I may look into building a replacement power source and tie it to the RQs batteries instead.

EL Glow

Here is a shot in the dark, you can see the extra wire looping in the background!

EL in the dark

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MrScott Avatar
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March 10, 2008 6:47 PM

Time for that new cable channel show..... "Pimp My Quad"!

All we need now is the servos to make it crouch down in low rider mode. Laughing

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March 11, 2008 2:46 AM

Been a while since I've seen one of WowWee's products being pimped out with EL wire.

Any intentional reason for the choice of colour? 

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milw Avatar
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March 11, 2008 7:11 AM

No particular reason for the color, other than I thought it would go well with the blue wire.

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Peter Redmer Avatar
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March 12, 2008 11:46 AM

I love this... RQ with bling bling!

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RobosapienV2-4mem8 Avatar
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March 12, 2008 12:47 PM

Gotta like that EL wire, I used to use it a lot in my PC's, Nice to see it being used again milw. You will have to make a small movie clip and show us.

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milw Avatar
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March 12, 2008 2:13 PM

It's on my camera! I spent last night hooking the inverter board into the RQs power and setting the switch and connector into the shell. I'm going to bring the Try-me pads out to a connector too, so I don't have to open him up again.

Here's a couple of more teasers:

headshell

headon

scan

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RobosapienV2-4mem8 Avatar
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March 13, 2008 12:08 AM

I also brought out the try me wires to the head where it is easy to get at just in case we find a use for them, Although they do not seem to do anything that i can find. There is a pulse on the scope but what purpose this is I do not know.

People yearn after this robotic dream, but you can't strip your life of all meaning, emotion and feeling and expect to function.


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markcra Avatar
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March 13, 2008 5:50 PM

Loving the laser addition, think I'll be looking for a cheap laser to gut some time soon and give this a go myself.

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March 17, 2008 3:36 PM

hmmm...pimp my quad...

Adobe Flash 8 and a little insiration...

Last words I said to my Roboquad:
May the force be with you.
Remember the roboquad. I miss him.

milw Avatar
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March 17, 2008 4:19 PM

Lepy... U can do? Laughing

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milw Avatar
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March 17, 2008 9:28 PM

The EL wire mod (and more!) is done, here's a short clip of Demo1 in medium light. I'll be writing this up as an article, and will have more video to post there!  

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RobosapienV2-4mem8 Avatar
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March 17, 2008 11:16 PM

Cool milw, A nice pimped up RQ, I would like to see it in total darkness, I think it will look real cool.

People yearn after this robotic dream, but you can't strip your life of all meaning, emotion and feeling and expect to function.


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markcra Avatar
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March 18, 2008 1:31 PM

Looks awesome! Nice job milw.

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MrScott Avatar
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March 18, 2008 3:43 PM

I think that seeing about 20 of those walking down a dark hallway would scare the Schottky right out of my rectifier.

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March 18, 2008 4:32 PM

Great job! I like it when the lights dim when the motors are moving. It gives it a little bit more flash. and nice comment mrscott I like how you added electronic terms in the comment.lol

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milw Avatar
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March 18, 2008 9:43 PM

Ask and ye shall receive! Gotta work on a new avatar now!

And here's my 3 favorite stills:

Darkly glowing

Lighter glowing

Scanning... kinda reminds me of Close Encounters! 

Scanning...

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GWJax Avatar
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March 18, 2008 9:50 PM

freaky! very cool in the dark! love the laser just add smoke now to see the line.

GWJax, To Hack and make mods on robots is a life style and comes natural and not by choice. If a robot has a screw to open it then it must be opened!

RobosapienV2-4mem8 Avatar
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March 18, 2008 11:26 PM

Very nice milw, Real freaky. How many mb to upload. I have been trying to upload 1.3gb but no success. Ytube 1gb max. Love the colors.

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Peter Redmer Avatar
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March 19, 2008 9:22 AM

Nice job milw!!

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