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Originally posted by korosu
anyway, i thought about what you said having the turret able to turn. staring at the pic of the insides, and i may definitely be wrong about this, but it looks like between the 2 gearboxes there's an indentation about the size of a bit motor, with the bell end facing the rear of the tank and the shaft facing forward. there's a small bump with a hole in it and that looks like it would connect to that small hole up by the turret. it would be possible to make the turret turn by somehow getting the gears in the right position and the right type of gears. the other thing i'd have to wonder is if the controller could do another set of input instructions.
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Unfortunately, if you line up the turret gear hole and the screw holes in the upper half, you'll see that the hole is right over the battery pack. There's no room to put a motor or gearing in w/o relocating the battery pack, which would be a chore because of all the plastic molding on the lower half. The first picture I posted is slightly misleading because it looks like the tank folds back together just like a sandwich. You actually have to flip the top half back around before attaching it back to the lower half. The gun barrel points away from the rear of the tank where the gear boxes are located.
I guess it'd be doable if you were able to move the battery pack and hack some gears and a motor together. Then of course you'd have to jimmy up IR control.
Anyone know how they communicate? I'm guessing it must be some sort of serial data stream (as opposed to multiple channels a la bits). That would certainly explain the control lag.
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