Takatae! Yuusha Tetsujin Muscular Convoy

To any of you who owns a Zoids Death Stinger, you’ll probably know it only walks forward in one direction. Last night something happened. My Death Stinger walks in all direction and terrorized Psyduck !! :O Scary stuff ahead …

See I told you something was fishy… No Zoids could do that …

OK, lets cut the crap short. I’ve actually managed to stuff an R/C receiver into the Death Stinger (DS).

There’s a CP for DS called CP-16. It’s a wired remote control unit that plugs into a port underneath DS’s battery pack. CP-16 gives DS 4 channels of movement (forward/reverse/left/right).

Since DS’s battery pack has on 2 pins, how the heck CP-16 can have 4 channels of movement ?  At least there should be 3 pins, ie, 1 common ground and 2 positive terminals.

Then I found out that the plastic block on DS’s battery port on the body can be plugged out. There’s 4 pins underneath it. Got a battery pack and started to test the pins.

As I expected, DS uses 2 motors, each one controls one side of the legs. Kinda like tanks. Forward one motor and reverse the other motor, and DS turns. Forward both, well, it goes forward (duh)..

The DS wasn’t actually mine, so I had to design an external box that can be plugged and unplugged from it without the need to cut anything from DS.

This is the receiver board I canniballized from a cheapo Audley Race-Tin Gen-3. Armed with my horrendous soldering skill, I made a break-out board to connect to the pins on DS. Plugged out 4 pins from an unused sound card too :p Not shown here is another break-out board that connects to DS’s original battery pack.

Made a box to stuff the curcuit in. Cannibalized yet another unsed PC accessory, this time a printer cable, the parallel one. Who uses parallel printers in this USB age any way ? :p

oh, wait, my printer’s parallel .. :-O

Here’s the finished stuff. Still crude, but it works. Used plaplate for the box too. Maybe I’ll wrap the box with epoxy putty and sand it to make it look more like a CP soon. Too lazy to do it now ..

Another angle. See the protruding antenna ? And the parallel cable housing looks like a cannon (to me lah, to you I don’t know …)

Another view of the box.

Psyduck’s ready to test the new & improved Death Stinger. This is when the eeiry stuff happened … >:)

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