Advanced Ideas for your Solarengine
The CassetteMech Solaroller
It’s sooo much fun turning junk into something brand new. One of the tasks around Solarbotics is to keep an eye out
for cool technology we can do exactly that - turn it into something it wasn’t! The CassetteMech Solaroller is one such
Frankenstein-esque creation:
Can you see the family resemblance between these two?
Strip off the tape-reading head, yank the assembly
and use a left-over screw to turn it into the front wheel!
Ok, ok - we cheated a little. We had a spare mechanism,
and found that we could push a second black wheel onto
the same shaft as the main black wheel. And BOY does this
little Solaroller zoom!
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