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Oli:
I am stuck on Mission to Mars. I have been stumbling through most of them though, just adding wheels till it works.
Statik:
I set out with the task to make the marker land in the goal on Down Under. It took a while, but I finally succeeded.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=564611
Scandanavian War Machine:
i'm pretty much in the same boat, Roxie.
although i was pretty proud of the contraption i used to beat 'avalanche' or whatever it's called, with all the balls that roll down at you. anyway, i made a super-flexible caterpillar-like tank thing that had a spinning flipper on the front so it would throw the balls up and back and any that it couldn't throw, it would just climb over the top of.
Scandanavian War Machine:
i didn't save it. i could try to recreate it later but i'm at work right now and kind of busy at that for now.
Statik:
Yeah, the common solution for that one seems to be essentially a tank with some sort of "digger" on the front of it. Me and a friend came up with one that has a "tank tread" on the front so it would dig them out and dump them off the back before getting to the last five or so that it was strong enough to just push.
Edit: My digger : http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=579477
and a brute force one: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=581098
Now I want to try and make one that "eats" the balls on the hill (and proceeds to push them out the back)
Something Ive figured out:
If you want more forward push, dont just put more wheels touching the ground, you can add torque to the motors by chaining them together (how people make strong catapults). Basically just have a string of motors all connected at the same points (top+bottom or left+right) to each other. You can also help increase ground friction (by putting cross bars connecting two wheels/motors)
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