The DIY Tank

Will Foster, a Kettering University student, has built his own half sized Panzer tank. It took Will 2 years and around $10,000 to build his mini-tank and he says the process has been "a lot of trial and error...I'd buy a $200 part that didn't work, then go to a $300 part that didn't work before finding a $50 part that did." The tank is about as big as a small car, and can reach speeds of around 20 mph with its three-cylinder diesel engine. It runs on treads, has a cannon powered by compressed air from a scuba tank and parks wherever the hell it wants.

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[sandpir8]

Lame...

Not awsome

[Quiet_Desperation]

Strikes me as a bit pointless. Guess I'm getting old. Paintball? Yeah, I'm going to go jump on the paintball course with the compressed air tank cannon roaming around. Uh huh.

Now if he had built it out of Lego, THEN it would have been awesome. Still pointless, but awesome, especially if it drove itself using a Mindstorm module.

not impressed

[jollyreaper]

It's so small, so dinky.... that's it, it's a dink-tank!