19 Oct
2005
19 Oct
'05
4:33 p.m.
Your comments make me wonder what the history of the
buggy was though -
did it start out as a F-T kit in its own right, or was it a joint effort
AFAIK it was never an F-T product. F-T never used stepper motors, and if
they had they would not have fitted them with screws through the grouves
of the blocks. The whole thing seemed halfway between a F-T product
and someone's
bedroom hack :-)
Personally, I think it started out as a bedroom hack (all but the cover
could have been made at home, using normal electronic bits and stock F-T
parts). It was then turned into a commercial (albeit low-volume) product,
and the cover was made for it.
(Incidentally, I need to find suitable replacement tyres for Bletchley's
buggies; they've nearly all decayed now - not sure if rubber O-rings
Mine too.
would work or be of the wrong substance and therefore
too slippy. Yet
another job to get around to at some point!)
The tyres are not an F-T part (although the wheels, and the little nylon
rods to fill in the slots most certainly are). They look like standard
O-rings to me.
If yoy find a source of them, let me koow, I need a couple too. The
company I normally get O-rings from (for HP card readers, etc) doesn't do
them large enough.
-tony