Old Toy Modding?

Sqwubbsy writes "Stumbling through Google, looking for info on the Big Trak by Milton Bradley, I came across an article about one that was retrofitted with an OOPic controller. I was wondering if anyone else had a good story about a retrofitted toy that they beefed up?"

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I had one of those

[ksheff]

I took it to school once and my home room teacher had me program it to go across the hall and shoot the laser cannon at the old, old teacher in that room, and then retreat. Everyone had a good laugh about it, but the sad thing is if my son did that today, he'd probably get expelled or be forced to see a shrink.

Too bad some of his links in the story point to documents on his C: drive.

Took mine apart

[The Tyro]

and cannibalized the parts to do other things... those little electric motors and gears were useful for all kinds of stuff.

This was all after I got bored/frustrated with it, of course.

The most frustrating thing about the big trak was that it never got its turning radii correct... if you told it to turn right 90 degrees, it was always off by several degrees, enough that it would subsequently bump into a wall or corner. Adding in the corrections for all those not-quite-90-degree turns was a hassle, so I introduced Big Trak to Mr. screwdriver.

I did miss the laser-cannon effect though... that was pretty cool in a dark room.

So you're angling for the DARPA challenge too?

[localroger]

Just a wild guess.