Paddleducks

Paddler Modelling => Construction => Topic started by: andrewh on March 06, 2008, 12:18:04 AM

Title: Paddler to try independant paddle control
Post by: andrewh on March 06, 2008, 12:18:04 AM

I have a transmitter with mixing built in, and wanted to try using it for independant control of paddles having been ibnspired by Graham Goodchild's Irene.  (I also want to use a similar system for rowing but that's a different form of paddling)

I had modified a couple of servos for continuous rotation  - but they got snaffled for my 12-year old's robot - so the paddles were fitted directly to the shafts of a pair of tape drive motors driven by servo amplifiers.  Hence 2 channels each with proportional control fore and aft, all worked off one stick of my Hitec 3SS

Pics now, more details later if interested

Boat is a small balsa creation of no special merit, but got painted dull grey to tome with a modelling friend's  blockade runner

andrew

Title: Re: Paddler to try independant paddle control
Post by: Eddy Matthews on March 06, 2008, 08:35:04 AM

Thanks Andrew,

I don't normally build models small enough to suit your chosen method of powering, but quite a few of our members do, so I'm sure they would be interested if you could elaborate on how you hooked everything together, and what needed to be modified etc etc...

Title: Re: Paddler to try independant paddle control
Post by: andrewh on March 08, 2008, 03:06:54 AM

Thanks - I will expand and take some more photos.

This, however is a clunker - little ones look more like: