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Create a Micro Spy Car
 08-25-2008 12:55 PM
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| Difficulty: | Super Easy! | ||||||
| Estimated Time: | < 5 minutes | ||||||
| Skills Required: | A Voyeuristic Wit! Ability to manipulate dual surface adhesive compound strips (double sided sticky tape for you layman lovers) |
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| Parts Required: | *Team Losi Micro-T R/C Car *Swann Black Hawk Wireless Color Camera with Built-in Battery and 2.4ghz Receiver *Double Sided Sticky Tape *A TV with RCA inputs of some sort |
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| Tools Required: | Organic Manipulators (Hands) Scissors |
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We have some pretty cool toys laying around in the bowels of the Trossen Robotics R&D department. Late last night I had a stroke of genius and combined two readily available electronic gadgets to make a VERY cool little toy, the Micro Spy Car. Afraid of Big Brother watching you? Well now you'll have to look out for Little Brother too.
While digging around for a spare Anti-mass Spectrometer I came across an awesome little wireless camera, the Swann Black Hawk Wireless Color Camera with Built-in Battery and 2.4ghz Receiver (which has a product line about 'keeping an eye on loved ones'. Sure.):  The camera itself is TINY, measuring a little over 2" long and with a built in lithium battery. Like any self respecting geek, thoughts of mounting this to a small R/C car and driving it into the girls locker room immediately filled my head. Except, I'm not in highschool anymore and I certainly don't want to see my hairy ass coworker naked. Oh well, spying on clothed people around the office will have to suffice. We just so happened to have a TINY Team Losi Micro-T R/C car sitting around the office:  TINY Camera? Check! TINY R/C Car? Check! TINY R/C Spy Car?? Check! Surely joining these two gadgets would be an incredibly complex procedure, so I stretched my mind and our materials budget and went all out using an entire 1 inch piece of double sided sticky tape. Parts:  Incredibly difficult procedure of adding the sticky tape:  Finished Product:  And for size comparison, here's the Micro Spy Car with an Ultra-Exclusive Limited Collectors Edition Official Trossen Robotics Coffee Mug:  Click Here for bigger picture Okay so that was *hard*! Now for the fun part- driving around the office with it! I plugged the video receiver into a little portable LCD display we had laying around and went nuts. You can also plug the video receiver into a USB video capture device to view and record your shenanigans on your computer. Here's a quick video we shot of the Micro Spy Car driving around our back room:
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#1
08-25-2008
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Re: Create a Micro-Spy Car
>> Here's a quick video we shot of the Micro Spy Car in action:
Where's "here"?
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08-25-2008
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Re: Create a Micro-Spy Car
Well, that's why its in drafts :P
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#3
08-28-2008
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Re: Create a Micro-Spy Car
And the video is up!
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#4
08-28-2008
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
Very cool!
Now all you need is a Barbie Mobile and the Castle Creations' brushless motors!
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08-28-2008
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
If you use a brushless motor, how will Barbie brush her hair after she gets out of the Barbie Mobile?
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#6
08-29-2008
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
I hate to be a downer...but your really need a pan/tilt setup for the camera...tilt at least. Oh...and when are you going to mount a camera on one of those little helicopter thingys? Oh and you forgot the missiles. So... missiles and a tilt head for the camera...oh and make the whole thing fly...
Seriously though...pretty sweet. DB |
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#7
08-29-2008
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
Damn it Tyberius, I hate it when you have fun at work.
 :c ool:
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08-29-2008
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
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08-29-2008
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
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 DB |
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08-29-2008
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