Oh yea. It was pulling 1.5 amps when I stopped it. It came out of a giant robot thing that my in-laws bought for me because they know I like robotics. It rolled around on treads and had arms that moved up and down and grabbed stuff. Controlled via wired remote. But the gears kept stripping on them poor things so you couldn't hardly pick up more than a dirty sock, and even then you had to prop it up just so. Needless to say it wasn't any good for helping clean up around the house.
I'm going to use the treads as a base for my first homemade robot. Maybe later I'll put a turret of some kind on it. For now I'm going to just control it with a wii nunchuck so I can have fun with the accelerometer. Pretty excited. Then gotta find a way to do something with sensors and automate it. ![]()