Living the Dream!

[NILL]

I just bought a ex-military robot from the local salvage yard!
http://picasaweb.google.com/0.NILL.0/Robot02#

I first thought it was for retrieving boxes from storage but because of it's relative small size it might have been for handling dangerous materials during test. It specifically came from Picatinny Arsenal. At least that's what I was told. Tell me what you guys think about the electronics on it. I'm sure that there useless now but I would like to know more anyway. Also be sure to have a look at the last pic for some quick fix fun.

For now it's going to sit till I have time to deal with it. But I'm thinking of making the inside modular so I could configure it as either a Toolbox-Bot that would follow me around the workshop, A Bulter-Bot for LAN Parties I'm going to host in the future and maybe A Caddy-Bot for LAN Parties I go to(FNF exculded).

And before it's asked I got it for $280 after I work it down from $375. It's just over 700 lbs of Aluminum.

[Digger[NJLP]]

Hey Nil, I used to work in Picatinny, did you get this via ebay or did they have an auction/sale on base?

[NILL]

Hey Nil, I used to work in Picatinny, did you get this via ebay or did they have an auction/sale on base?

I just bought a ex-military robot from the local salvage yard!

Every few weeks I go to a scrap metal yard, you know the places where they cube cars and you turn in aluminum cans for money, looking for bits of plumbing or what-not that I can use. Well last Friday I to basically window shop and see what they had and found this in the heap. Luckily the guy that runs my local scrap yard doesn't cube everything immediately and I picked this up on Monday. You can see how I found it in the first pic in the gallery.

[Digger[NJLP]]

Sweet Find! Loved workin' on the base, so much crazy stuff goin' on.

[NILL]

Meant to edit the last post but forgot to hit reply.

EDIT: Just realized what was suppose to be the first pic became unsynced, it's fixed now. BTW Digger, what did you do there? Just asking because I also know a semi-retired machinist and a radar engineer.

[Digger[NJLP]]

I was working as the Client/Server Project Manager for the Credit Union on base. One of my projects was upgrading the circuits to the off base location to fiber and I spent a lot of time with base communications and command.