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When not working, I’ve been spending a lot of time building lego sets and tooling around with a tank concept.

The inspiration comes from this awesome tank bot created by Brian Davis:

I’ve been able to build the basic shooting mechanism and have prototyped a track as well. I need some additional parts before I can build a part and start building a frame to haul around the shooter, motors, ammo hopper and the NXT brick (the computer that runs everything). Once I get that built out, I’ll start to actually write code for it to add some automation.

I don’t want it to be a pure ripoff, but I’m really impressed with the efficiency in the design and I figure it’s worth emulating.

As I start making some progress and actually have something to show off, I’ll be taking some pictures and hopefully video – because people can only read so much text before getting bored out of their minds.