Triple secret aiming tech: Clean barrel Round paint Neon colored paint (so you can see where it's going)
Steve On May 16, 10:53 pm, "Doug Conn" <[email protected]> wrote: > Really great job all around, Mark. I have immense respect for anybody who > can make a realistic Abram's turret. I have to admit that I was skeptical of > your air-blast feed assist and I'm happy to be wrong. > > Tanks are difficult to aim. Proportional turret speed control helps. Because > I have some smarts in my tank control system, I built a couple of features > that add some accuracy. I have a dual speed turret control, plus > proportional control. In slow mode I can fine tune the rotation pretty well. > I also have the elevation programmed to give me fine control over it. I'm > not certain how you could build these features with standard R/C, however. > > I'm working my next tank, a T-72. It will have some double-secret technology > that should make aiming even better. Sorry, details are only available to > members of the Pennsylvania Urban Fighting Force :) > > - Doug > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Behalf Of Mark_123522 > Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:24 PM > To: R/C Tank Combat > Subject: [TANKS] Shooting PaintBalls -- M1A1 Abrams > > Videos of the new M1A1 shooting paintballs. > It has a tube magazine, with an air blast paintball feed assist. > You can see some of the shots break in the barrel. > Its because of very poor quality, mis-shaped paintballs. > I have shot 160 paintballs (4 magazines full) and the feed system is > very reliable. > > Its very hard to aim this thing, is that typical?? > It even has fully porportional turret rotation. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vz29yldzyw > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AZyf4oR7mA > > Mark > > -- > You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > Visit the group athttp://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat > > -- > You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > Visit the group athttp://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat > > -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat
