Small and flat climbing tank

[oracid]

In this video, I show how to make a small and flat tank climber. This profile is more suitable for robotics instead of the profile of a war tank.

Of course, I have used the caterpillar that I made in the previous video.

 

[gyenesvi]

It's pretty cool, but you say it is a tank climber, and I don't see any tanks being climbed here. There is no tank at all, and it climbs stairs..

[oracid]

3 hours ago, gyenesvi said:

It's pretty cool, but you say it is a tank climber, and I don't see any tanks being climbed here. There is no tank at all, and it climbs stairs..

Thank you.

In absolute terms, a tank is a canon mounted on motorized vehicle with wheels or tracks.
It's true that there is no canon, here. So, you're right, it's not a tank.

Edited May 28, 2024 by oracid

[gyenesvi]

Sorry in advance for all the grammar policing, but it's the second topic with this title, so it evoked this in me :D

4 minutes ago, oracid said:

In absolute terms, a tank is a canon mounted on motorized vehicle with wheels or tracks.
It's true that there is no canon, here. So, you're right, it's not a tank.

Well, that's one interpretation why this name is wrong, but I did not mean that. Rather,

tank climber = something that climbs up onto a tank. So it's not the tank that climbs up onto something else. The two things are different; this is why grammar matters, because if you swap two words, you can get two very different meanings. I guess you wanted to write climber tank (that is, a tank that climbs) instead :)

And then comes the second problem that you mention, that it's not even a tank. It's just a tracked vehicle so far. A tank (vehicle) is originally named so because of the big boxy container (that can drive on tracks, but also on wheels, may or may not have a cannon). The essence is the big container, which is absent here. That's why it's not a tank, not because of the absence of the cannon.

Sorry again for the too much grammar strictness, but I think your title is pretty misleading, and I am sometimes in the mood for fixating on these kind of things (due to my computational linguistics past) and promoting correct language use. But I understand that it's because english is not your mother tongue (and it makes me wonder whether descriptive adjectives in french (can) come after the nouns?).

 

About the actual build, do you have plans to build something on top of the tracks? Why does it have to be so big? Just to fit the scale of the stairs?

[Gray Gear]

Interesting Project, and it seems to work surprisingly well. Just shows what can be done with enough traction, which the unmodified LEGO track links are notoriously poor at.

Also, sorry for being a Tank nerd, but a cannon on motorized tracks or wheels doesn't make a tank, but an SPG (self propelled gun). There are additional components required to make a tank.

[oracid]

Yes, my English is very bad, but I have an excuse, I'm French. Next time I'll be more careful. Promised.

Sorry for the tank definition. I was inspired by the French Wikipedia.
The "tank" could hardly be smaller due to the steps being standardized (See Wikipedia). But it is not impossible.
No, I didn't plan to put anything on top of the "tank". The objective here was to show a new principle which greatly simplified this type of climbing "tank".

[Aurorasaurus]

I always like the way you present your videos, they make me smile.

And my two cents about the tank thing: somewhere I heard that when the british were developing tanks, they put it under the guise of new water tanks, hence the name. But I have no source for this and would agree its probably just a story someone told me as a kid.