DAGU Promotion, Cheap HW, LMR Mr. Basic Special LMR version + 3 prizes!
Update: --== DAGU ROCKS ==--
Update: NEW manual attached! Replacing old one. Sorry for the format, PDF was too heavy :)
Hi dear fellow robot builders, members of LMR.
As I am sure you know, OddBot has made us some cool contact with Jack from China, the guy behind DAGU Electronics.
Now I also had some talks with Jack himself regarding a production of some of my stuff (Thanks Odd).
And I tell you, the guys at DAGU moves fast, sends money as promised, and the hardware is actually REALLY NICE!
And I am NOT just saying this because he is supporting us, I have tried quite a lot of HW that people wanted me to promote on LMR, and it was not all that good ;)
However - now I just got this cool mail from he’s assistant, Claudia:
Dear Frits,
How about these days?
This time I'll show you a great kit, named Mr. Basic, consisting of a aluminum alloy chassis with an extension PCB, which provides a reliable expand platform for DO-IT-YOURSELF. You can find the photos of it in attached files.
So far, we just have Chinese package for Mr. Basic, but there are English user manuals, so everybody can assemble it with his own hands depending on the manuals.
For Chinese market, our original idea is letting all robot hobbyists can create their own robots with our Mr.Basic.So Jack thinks this product will also be a good choice for the members from LMR.
We are excited about your idea about "LMR members editon", so we would like to offer 50 sets Mr. Basic printed with LMR logo with a special price only for LMR members, it just cost them 22USD($15 per set and another $ 7 for shipment) to own one. Every member who bought one and designed a new variation can put their creatures on LMR, and you can let other members and users vote out three best ones, each winner will be offered $100 from DAGU as prize.
What do you think about the above idea? Hopefully waiting for your respond.
Kind Regards,
Claudia
This is cool!! Those things are almost like free at that price! And it is our first real LMR merchandise! :)
What you need to do to participate:
- Send a mail with your order (and address) to Claudia:
claudiadagu at yahoo.com.cn
Let the subject of the mail be "LMR Mr Basic" She will return to you, be fast, only 50 made. - If you feel like using your Mr Basic Special LMR-version for more than a mantelpiece, then make some robot out of it. Submit it as a robot on LMR.
- IMPORTANT: TO make sure that you participate in the competition, you must add the tag “LMR DAGU Contest” to the posting.
- Vote for your own robot. (I know you are going to do so anyway) - But also; Vote for other robots that you think should win!
- Wait for everyone to be finished and cross your fingers :) We make a special page for this, with all participating robots, and the 3 robots voted highest will each win the price of USD 100!
Yes!
PS: Since this is going to be won by robots only seen on the page, good images matters as well as cool robots. I just know from experience. For inspiration, see this that I wrote once :) (The part about taking good pictures)
PPS: Thank you OddBot, Jack, Claudia, and DAGU! Nice going! :D
PPPS: You are a very competent person.
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@ Wed, 2010-05-19 20:51
Looks so complicatted
Electronics are easy. Hacking servos to continious are easy too. Forget all those gears and axles. Opinion. Simple is best especially with mixed up parts. I have see a few nylon pinion gears split in my day. Should be brass for indurance. Not easy to replace.
@ Thu, 2010-01-14 09:33
Any left?
Can you still ordre this nice looking kit?
@ Thu, 2010-01-14 10:05
See top menu for where to
@ Fri, 2009-12-18 08:21
thanks
@ Wed, 2009-05-20 21:34
Too much power? Or faulty gears?
Check the teeth on the crown gear of one of my rear wheel axles. (The piece of black plastic is mine - for contrast.)
As you can see, two teeth are broken off. I do not know if this is the result from racing around or if they came like that. Just wanted to warn you all. Check those teeth. Every one of them. It's not too late to ask Claudia for new axles.
As a result of the broken teeth, the gears do not mesh very smoothly. And I fear the loss of more teeth should I make Mr Basic do some more doughnuts.
@ Tue, 2009-05-19 15:57
Overall Impression
Mine had the dreaded poorly threaded axle shafts but overall, I don't think it is terrible. The drive shafts do worry me a bit but I don't think they are a show stopper. I've seen RC car kits costing much more with similar problems.
Overall, I'm happy with it. Plus, the way they are willing to own up to the problem and rectify it carries a lot of weight with me.
@ Tue, 2009-05-19 02:16
Front wheels
Someone mentioned their front wheels not being driven because the gears did not mesh. I had this problem as well since I was forced to abandon the spacers on the axle. I found my spacers were too small to go over the shaft even with the burs removed but since there is a nut behind the wheel I decided this was not too important. The downside was the front gears not meshing. I put some 3mm washers behind the crown gear to take up the slack and now it meshes fine. I used some superglue to prevent my nuts coming loose on the axles.
Click on the photo to get a bigger picture.
@ Tue, 2009-05-19 07:12
Opposite problem
I have had the opposite problem. The crown gears were not placed far enough onto the shafts. The bit of shaft sticking out was barely sufficient to hold on to the Alu T-shaped bearing. Only halfway into the 1mm plate. I tried to *carefully* tap the shaft further down the gear, but feared ruining the whole thing.
Maybe I get braver with spare parts in the mail...
@ Sun, 2009-05-24 11:51
Dutch courage
No, still sober. I mustered the courage to tap my axles further down the gears. Here's a photo. First axle (on the left) is done.
The end of the shaft sticking out at the far end is 2.6 mm long. You can see some burring on the shaft near the gear. That's probably designed to be there, gripping into the plastic.
My tapping caused the entire shaft to shift exactly 1.0 mm. It now sits nicely in the hole in the aluminium axle holder. I had to rearrange all the other parts to move 1.0 mm as well. Towards the outside of Mr Basic. There is sufficient length left for this surgery. The wheel can still be bolted on. I had to resolder my inner nut of course. But that is just my problem.
@ Tue, 2009-05-19 02:25
I had the same problem and