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DIY Ordnance Disposal With An RC Truck
kpw10 writes "My company, Tackle Design, put together a do it yourself ordnance disposal robot for use by one of the partners in our company, currently serving in Iraq. It is a very simple solution costing only about $1,000, but it performs the same functions as the super-expensive robots issued by the military. We looking to see if we can get more of these devices over there - particularly as the treat of IEDs seems to be on the rise. We're also looking into including more advanced cameras and other types of sensors including explosives detectors (MEMS and SAW based) as well as RF detectors."
Defend all zigs.. or something.
(Hey, it's Slashdot. You're not getting my A material here.)
I didn't know that IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) were a treat. How did they taste?
StrayByte.Net
Anyone else had to immediately think of that truck in Knight Rider (I think it was called Goliath) when he read the headline? :-)
and $1 million in bribes to the department of defence to get them to actually buy the things.
That they are driving around mine-fields? I bet thats pretty groundbreaking..
uh - no, that's Rice-a-Roni isn't it?
I forgot rice doesn't explode. Sorry.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
I see a vision of robots...BIG steam driven robots guided by reins and a team of engineers with theodolites. I call this creation "Sergent Bhrama".
Bloody hell, where'd I leave me pills?
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Advertisment? Where do you live, Cambodia? I'm thinking that the people who read Slashdot aren't going to be the target audience for an ordnance disposal advertisement.
I agree. Discussing military ordinance on /. must really take it's affect on you.
Hi, i'm joe i work in a garage, you know like The Woz, i make internet things that pretty l33t. We'll anyway nerdo, i was thinking one night on the internet and seeing all this news and stuff about iraq and i figured it would be keeno to help our soilders out with a bomb sniffer.
... i mean save, save our billies from retarded terrorists who use bomb.
Yeh so me and a buddy figured we could make million* cough*a modest profit selling these things to help the boys. You know cause the current ones me make now are really expensive, errr, i mean these guys can't buy enough of them maybe the governments not giving them enough money or something to buy them from halib...err... halifornia. You know home of all us geeks and techno companies.
So yeh we would really like you to save us a billion in research... *cough i mean
So if you could just send your ideas too.
Two Guy Garage Defense Company
5 Houston Center
1401 McKinney, Suite 2400
Houston, TX 77010
USA
Two Guy Garage Defense Co. is trademarked by our sponsors.
If you can't fix it ask the 3 year old down the street.
Yes, we need that. Our municipalities have far too many ordinances.
Look at the bright side: there's always seppuku.
kibishii-na.
I made myself a commitment to build every do-it-yourself item project on slashdot, I've just started on this one. People keep asking me what it's for, I tell them, now they are starting to look at me kinda funny
They're having a severe problem with new home owner's associations creating ridiculous ordinances, and this robot is designed to edit the bylaws in such a way as to totally obliterate those ordinances!
Ben Hocking
Need a professional organizer?
What, no big Type-R stickers?
Do you lie awake at night and wonder if anal retentive is hyphenated?
A libertarian's dream: a robot that goes around repealing ordinances.