Rumblerobotics

I tried tilting the turret with a pair of car door lock actuators but they didnt have the torque. My next idea was to lift the entire front of the tank up with another one of the drive motors, but even at 48v it could only lift an inch or 2 before the motor stalled. I need a beefy linear actuator or something.

Tough critics here

I'll go into some details here...

Firstly I had to rush thing to get it done in time, so it was designed and built in about 2 weeks.

@ Point blank, it does have way too much armor, but the 0.1" aluminum is what I had so that's what I used.

@ Splitlip, I stand by my servo activation for the trigger. You still need an input for a relay (like a servo pcb) and you need to run wires into the gun. I admitted the laser sight was poor in the instructable, but it still works reliably. The tripod would be brutal to use. You would need to have a pair of motors working *together* to keep it steady and aim it, not to mention mounting the legs. As for the infinite budget, I spent about $150 on parts, the majority being the camera system. Everything else was parts I already had (from 7 years saving up and building battlebots) or parts borrowed from other projects temporarily.

@ nerfdude, The tank uses a model airplane radio so the range is about as far as you can see BUT the camera range is only about 75ft max. I could have got a system that would do half a mile but it cost 4 times as much.