Built the week before the super-fun HSRC
event in Philadelphia, March 2002, the concept of DQ was to make
a quick and maneuverable wedge with a rotating disco ball on
top. Don't ask why; there really isn't any explaining it.
To start with I stole
the little drive pods that I'd built for another abandoned
project and attached them to a base plate. Also, a plastic
disco ball i had sitting around was attached to one of the
drive servos stolen from the carcass of Tiny Daffodil.
A little servo chain
and some bits and pieces later, it almost looks like a bot.
The usual electronics:
receiver, "Ants Rule" microcontroller board, and batteries.
Assembled and with some
skirts quickly cut out of aluminum sheet and attached with
white duct tape, Dancing Queen is ready!
At the
competition, despite two really tough matches from TubBot
and IceChip, DQ won the championship (and later won a rumble
too; I had to leave early and my friend Tony Hall drove in
the rumble).
