DynaTrax - What to do with those Cool Technic snowmobile tracks

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Sometimes my robot building ideas are spurred by nothing more than wanting to make use of one or more cool items that I get from time-to-time. In this case it’s two - tread tracks that can be had if you own the Technic Snowmobile (8272) and a TechnoStuff Tilt/Accel Sensor.  I was fortunate to have received a huge bag (a few hundred segments along with cog wheels) of the new tread tracks a while back and begun playing with them to see how they compare to their smaller black Technic counterparts. 

I like these ones better as they are larger (more suited to the size of robots and Technic creations I build) and stronger - they dont come apart as easy. They also have pin holes in them to boot, so the sky is the limit if you want to expand the width of the tracks using pins and beams, or technic plates. Imagine the possibilities!
So, what do you do with a load of these tracks? Build a robot that uses almost all of them - DynaTrax.  This bot is not so much practical as it is just cool (at least I think it is….).  I also thought it would be cool to make the tread carriers dynamically expand and contract and shift the tread length with a 3rd remote channel. You can also use the tilt sensor to detect slope and dynamically change the tread length to suite… Find out more and watch a video at www.astolfo.com.

  

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