How-To:Lowrider dancer

[tuning¢ars]

hello for all ,today I come here to teach to do a Lowrider Dancer.

It is going oh an idea of the control for Dancer,of course that were not made many alterations on the eletric circuit ,but is alone an idea:

see the entrance of the energy:



1° step,you will need styrenne



2°step,cut the estireno as a measured chassis, with the entrances for the wheels







3°step,,make a bar in " U " of thread of copper ,and verify the movements








4°step, cut 4 styrenne pieces in the measure of the it distances of a wheel for another



5°step,corte more 8 triangles of 90° to give sustentacion to the styrene ,that you will see later so that it serves




6° step ,must to be like this




7°step ,start to plan the places where the motors will occupy



8°step,anote its owed localizations ,note that I use a side with stick ,for not to scratch out in it chassis



9°step, now it marks a hole on each side of the bar in " U" and also one below each axe of the motors,like this


10°step,use the stove to heat a metal, it should be a little fine





11° step,make a hole on the targets:






12°step,to make better use a rasp





13° step,now you can already remove the sticker





14°step,you can use the metal to place on the holes ,so the line it will slide soft



15°step, tie a line in the extremity of the bar in " U",can be a fish line....



16°step,pass the line inside of the hole below the bar in " U",and that same line passes for the hole where will be the motor that will lift the motor of the respective side:like it shows the illustration



17°step,now with those pieces of styrenne that you already cut previously ,you glue next to the bar in " U",and with 2 triangles you give support gluing in the styrenne as exhibition the photo



18°step,repit that on the other side and always near the bar in " U " as exhibition the illustration



19° step,glue the motor in the place that you reserved ,and ties the line in the axe of the motor



OBS:note that the line passes underneath and later it returns as it was explained previously

20°step,cole the second motor,and ties as it was already said



21°step,repita that of the other tem front,or you can only leave for him to lift in the front,so it ties the line in the center of the bar in " U ".


22°step,:YOU NOW HAS A LOWRIDER!!!!!!!! GO SHOW FOR ITS RELATIVES!!!!!! PLAY ENOUGH WITH HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!



TUTORIAL BY Tuning¢ars
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I'm sorry about the words,because I'm from Brazil!!

BYE.

[blubaja]

Awsome tut dude!!

[D_LaMz]

man that is pretty neat, and is that a ps2 controller?

[SteveK2003]

Wow, that's quite a tutorial! I don't quite get how the motors and pulleys work, but the rest is cool.

I once read an article about a guy who used servos in place of the shocks to make an R/C lowrider. He needed an airplane radio with about 8 channels converted to surface use (It is illegal to use a plane radio in a car, and vice versa), but it really worked and each wheels was independant of the others.

There are a lot of inexpensive microservos available today, and somebody handy with electronics could rig up something similar using a wired controller or even one of the new mini 'park flyer' radios.

[KTem]

Very cool idea. I don't quite get how it's done yet, but I'm sure I will if I study your tutorial some more... definately a cool idea, thanks for sharing !

[vanzz]

yeah?cool

[tuning¢ars]

thanks guys
anyone can move to tutorials thread??

[rasta_dubbed]

do you have a "sample pic" when it hops?

this is great!

added to my bookmark!

[Murray Kish]

Very creative. A little 'rough' but definitely unique.

Do the motors go in reverse too?

Murray

[cyberkid]

Originally Posted by rasta_dubbed

do you have a "sample pic" when it hops?

this is great!

added to my bookmark!

I think the last pic is exactly that... though taken from the top doesn't really show that much.

[rasta_dubbed]

i hope u can post a new pic.. (hopping)

[tuning¢ars]

I will buy new motors ,then I take photos ok?


thanks

[willimo]

I'll never understand why people insist on using heated implements to cut styrene, when a knife or drill will do the job just as easily, and far more safely?

[rasta_dubbed]

Originally Posted by tuning¢ars

I will buy new motors ,then I take photos ok?


thanks

ok thanks... by the way,what batteries are you using? to power the motor...

[cyberkid]

Originally Posted by rasta_dubbed

ok thanks... by the way,what batteries are you using? to power the motor...

A couple of AA's should do it... unless he's powering each motor seperately.