90 ton 1/14 metal excavator scratch build w/embedded PC

[SteinHDan]

The first test drive of the full working skeleton!





https://youtu.be/ueaT-cYe8B4

The lead ballast is not mounted in this video. And as as you can see in the video, it really needs to be added. Too little weight in the back. :-)

I'm quite happy with the handling. It is very precise and very strong. Also, it's dead quiet except for the swing motor. I don't know why that motor is making so much noise. I have ordered another one just to make sure it isn't just that one particular motor.

[RCP57]

Very nice job! It's nice to see something different although the control boards are way over my head.lol

On a different note. How did you post your video(embed) like that on this site? I didn't think we could do that here. I'm glad we can!

Keep up the great work!

Reg

[SteinHDan]

Thanks, Kevin, Jim and Reg! :-)

Originally Posted by RCP57

On a different note. How did you post your video(embed) like that on this site? I didn't think we could do that here. I'm glad we can!

I don't think this site support video embedding. What I did above is just to add a screenshot of the embedding in a link to YouTube. I did that because I was afraid that the video would drown in all the (boring) programming code I was pasting in the previous posts. and so I wanted it to stand out and look like a video.

How I did it:
1. Upload the video to YouTube
2. Copy the embed code from YouTube
3. Paste the embed code into "TryIt Editor" - http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit....=tryhtml_basic
4. Take a screenshot
5. Crop the screenshot to only include the image of the embedded player
6. Upload the player screenshot to my image server
7. Add the image to the forum post
8. Add a link to the video on YouTube around the image (e.g. [ url= ..] [ img=.. [ /img ] [ /url ] ) so that the image becomes clickable.


Quite a few steps. Not sure if I'm going to do it again. :-)


Best regards,
Stein :-)