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Category A - Pirate Crew • Piranauts and Imperatrons by Ross Fisher • On Trojan 037-vi by nu_montag • MetalBeard 9000's Crew by JulianH Category B - Sailing the river of time • The Ironclad Gunner by Sympatik Brick • Renegade Voidrunner by The Librarian • Krakkin Attackin' by BenSpector42 Category C - Rum for everybody! • Kahuka-1 by Yatkuu • The Blackhole Sunfish by kritch • The Rustbucket by JimBaggins

Thanks you! I had great fun doing something unconventional in technic.

Thanks for your interest, I created a short video of the functions!

Hello everybody, This is my interpretation of a sailing vessel in the space age: The Rusty Sailor She is a smuggler ship, which is in service of the owners' family for ages and has seen lots of repairs and modifications. The vessel is equipped with solar sails to travel long distances while steering clear of official refuelling points. Of course, she needs to be able to make planetfall to avoid curious eyes at the orbital space ports. To achieve this, the solar sails can be retracted during landing. If cornered, the Rusty Sailor is able to defend herself, as she possesses four heavily armed turrets. As I am a technic guy, my main focus was to create many working functions for this vessel: - Both sails can be lifted or retracted simultaneously - Both sails can be rotated simultaneously - Landing gear and front ramp operate simultaneously - Left and right side turret are synchronised All functions are centrally controlled by wheels at the side of the ship The display stand is connected with a ball joint to the ship, so it balances rather freely on it. Thank you for organizing this contest, it was a really fun theme (although I had trouble to finish my entry in time - I need to work on my time management)

Yes, it will only eliminate the opportunity of not voting in order to increase your own average. Apart from that, it does not eliminate the possibility to vote unfair. We have to count on good sportsmanship for that. I don't know a good way to prevent this, apart from getting as many people to vote as possible, to get a good average...

Maybe it would be a solution, that every contestant has to give himself 15 points. This way every contestant is forced to vote, and if every entry gets 15 points from its creator, these votes kind of cancel each other.

Hello everybody, attached you can see further pictures of the modules and assembly

The CRAB ROV - Camouflage Robot for Arctic Biotopes - Remote Operated Vehicle Task: This rather small ROV (1:1 scale) disguises as a crab to observe and examine arctic wildlife undisturbed above and below the ice. Remote controlled functions: - walking mechanism - front four legs and rear four legs controlled separately - rotating propellers connected to rear legs drivetrain - rotating fan connected to front leg drivetrain - scissor arm left and right controlled by one motor each - eyes look left and right - coupled to scissor arm movement Static functions: - big red transporting bracket to lift the robot - cargo space - medical fluid container and needles mounted to the scissors to collect blood samples or give vaccinations to local wildlife - docking station with solar powered recharging and a satellite dish

Thank you very much!

Soo,I did some updates, colour scheme is now white with yellow and red accents. I added a robust red transporting bracket to lift the robot. You could even grab it with a hook and a winch. As well a little cargo space is added at the rear. Inside of that is a fluid containing drum, which is connected to the medical equipment at the crab scissors. This could be used to either collect blood samples from local wildlife or give some vaccination. A little base station for the ROV was built, too. It gives the robot the opportunity to recharge with solar power and improves the robots signal connection with a big satellite dish. This base station has a transport bracket as well, to lift it up. Crab robot WIP 12 Crab robot WIP 13 Crab robot WIP 14 Crab robot WIP 15

Thank you for your detailed feedback, I will see, what I can implement in the given time. Building a ROV was my plan immediately, because I guessed, most people would choose a manned vehicle and I wanted a different approach. The crab design came to my mind quickly as well, and I like the cute look of the robot. Also it is built in original scale, so it is a rather small robot. The mission plan of this ROV would be to be deployed in the vicinity of local wildlife, let's say a seal. Due to its crablike appearance it wouldn't disturb the animal and could observe it and follow it around. Even if the seal decides to dive into a ice hole, the ROV can follow it. So I have to think about, what equipment to give to the robot without disturbing the disguise. Also the robot is quite fast and shaky, so I will probably lose all equipment while moving . But I think, a control station with a nice radar dish and probably some solar panels to improve the robots signal connection and recharge it during the mission time would be a nice addition. For the photoshoot there is a little bit of arctic landscape planned. I have a white blanket which looks a lot like snow and the robot leaves funny looking tracks on that blanket. Colour change according to seasiders recommendation is planned. Sadly I don't own orange technic parts, so that colour is no option. Best Regards

Alright, I will give it a try, I can still swap back to the current scheme once the contest pictures are taken. Thank you for the input.

Nice! I like the idea of the docking system. This is really clever. The height adjustment looks cool as well. The base movement looks a little bit halting. Is this due to the high mass and resistance of the many gears necessary or might it be, that there are misaligned cardan joints somewhere? This is no criticism, models of that size are always difficult to motorize, and you need a lot of gears which have a lot of friction.

I really like your walking mechanism, I think I am going to copy it and try it myself. Do you think, it would be possible to use it without the worm gears in a smaller moc or does this kind of movement lead to a lot of resistance which has to be geared down so much? Best Regards

In my opinion, part of the contest is to search for interesting concepts that might be useful, even if they are unconventional. Otherwise everybody would just create a tracked vehicle which - I agree - is the most useful on snow. But maybe this concept has some benefits as well. For example, it can not tip over.