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The adventures of the Amphibious R/C Truck
The wonderful adventures of designing, and hopefully building, an amphibious R/C truck
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February 4, 2014 - 1:47 pm

Well, today the teams were assigned, supposed to be teams of 3, however somebody at some point dropped out, and of course my team drew the short straw. The only person I knew in the class that wasn't on a team is an electrical engineering student from China, which covers the minor electrical bits of the thing, but considering I also needed somebody that was more of an expert in boats and mechanics, well, not good. Ideally, we'd have one guy on the electrical bits, myself on the mechanical details, and somebody else on the hull and making it float. This may put a bit of a strain on things, but we at least have the electrical and mechanical bits covered. Lets hope it works!

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January 30, 2014 - 7:53 am

Well, as you all know, I'm an Engineering student at one of the satellite campuses for the University of Pittsburgh. (Just for the sake of internet security and whatnot, I won't say which one) For Engineering design, we had to write a proposal for a product in a number of categories. I couldn't come up with an idea for the life of me, and finally it was the day before the paper was due, so I had to rush through a paper and try to find some source material for some background information. Now, I don't know why it came to me, but I thought, "Gee, yaknow what'd be a cool thing to build some weekend? An RC truck that is also amphibious, and yet is decent on both land and water." Thus, I was asleep at the wheel, starting at something like 9 pm, and working to near midnight, and wrote about four and a half pages of who knows what, sourcing some stuff about the Amphicar, an airhogs rc helicopter car thingy, and a hunk of junk amphibious RC toy thing on Amazon. No real revisions or proof reading other than one or two lines here or there in the morning, just sent off via email to the professor.

To prove that procrastination doesn't pay, it ended up being the last of the top 10 proposals out of the class of 30, and now I am in charge of a 3-man team which I must pick from the class, who are charged to actually make the design. I don't think we have to build it, especially since the other designs include an easier to use recliner, easy set-up music stand, and a trail/game camera that has a screen to view the images at the site without needing a computer.

That said, if we have the time, money and effort left over, this thing very well may become real, since it will most likely be based off of a cheap or broken RC truck, with some major work done to it in order to convert it into an amphibious craft.

The purpose of this topic is a personal one, not actually involving the class. I just wanted to create something here in case anybody was interested, and for some quick-ish help if we need it. I.e. from the experts here with RC boats --looks at Bernie-- and other RC stuff, like what motors to use and whatnot.

Thanks, and stay tuned for more details! This will be a long-term thing, taking me up to the end of the semester, so don't expect more than me saying I have a team picked on Monday.

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