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Wanted: Matt on a Wild Thumper

ercoerco Posts: 20,255
edited 2013-04-28 19:27 in Robotics
I want to see Matt G riding atop Parallax's newest robot, the Wild Thumper!

https://www.parallax.com/StoreSearchResults/tabid/768/txtSearch/28192/List/0/SortField/4/ProductID/900/Default.aspx

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  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2013-04-25 18:29
    I just noticed that Parallax is also carrying the Dagu 5 rover as well. So perhaps Matt can use them as roller skates.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,255
    edited 2013-04-26 12:00
    Martin_H wrote: »
    I just noticed that Parallax is also carrying the Dagu 5 rover as well. So perhaps Matt can use them as roller skates.

    We can take turns diff-driving Matt on a pair of WiFi-enabled Dagu 5 rover skates. I like it!
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2013-04-26 14:23
    Nice to see Thumper and other Dagu products get some love. Some of these are done by my friend, Russell Cameron -- "Oddbot" over on LMR.

    Maybe you could rig a Wild Thumper to tow a Corvair. Never know when you'll need that...

    -- Gordon
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-04-26 15:13
    erco wrote: »
    We can take turns diff-driving Matt on a pair of WiFi-enabled Dagu 5 rover skates. I like it!

    diff-driving Matt...
    diff-driving Matt...
    diff-driving Matt...

    I dare you to say that 20 times as fast as you can.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,255
    edited 2013-04-26 17:29
    GordonMcComb wrote: »
    Maybe you could rig a Wild Thumper to tow a Corvair.

    I had my heart set on one of the few remaining Quadrovers for that, but heaven knows whatever became of them. Two Christmases ago, they were promised to the person(s) getting Parallax the best PR, but I never heard anything afterward.
  • TtailspinTtailspin Posts: 1,326
    edited 2013-04-26 19:13
    Perhaps, after reviewing some of your previous inventions, They thought it best to not provide you with that much horse power...:smile:
    wagon blaze.jpg


    -Tommy
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    400 x 320 - 54K
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2013-04-26 23:58
    So perhaps Matt can use them as roller skates.
    E'tu Marteen? Then ride I will. Not. :cool:
    -MattG
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2013-04-27 00:08
    I had my heart set on one of the few remaining Quadrovers for that, but heaven knows whatever became of them. Two Christmases ago, they were promised to the person(s) getting Parallax the best PR, but I never heard anything afterward

    As I recall, there were too severe of tax consequences to the recipients, unless they were a qualified charity or something like that. So they all went out to universities / colleges, etc. We've still got one "perfect" unit remaining in the office, which I am charged with "entombing" into a clear "coffin" - think "Lenin"....

    -MattG
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2013-04-27 18:54
    So why was the Quadrover discontinued?
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,387
    edited 2013-04-28 05:38
    NWCCTV wrote: »
    So why was the Quadrover discontinued?

    Because it costs $100,000 to design, had a Bill of Materials cost of $5,000 with 480 components and customers were willing to pay about $5,000 per robot.

    50 units made, 50 units sold, RIP Quadrover. Not viable.

    As for the $100K NRE, part of it was taken as a tax credit for research and development.

    Ken Gracey
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2013-04-28 19:27
    @Ken, That makes sense!!! I wonder of th 50 sold how many are actually still operational. I guess they can now bw considered collectors editions!!!
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