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Mechanics and Construction => Mechanics and Construction => Topic started by: cooldog on December 03, 2007, 02:19:02 PM

Title: rc fish tank cleaner
Post by: cooldog on December 03, 2007, 02:19:02 PM
for a school project i have to build a RC robot to clean a fish tank. but there is a catch it has to use 's own bouncy to clean the tank
Title: Re: rc fish tank cleaner
Post by: airman00 on December 03, 2007, 02:48:12 PM
but there is a catch it has to use 's own bouncy to clean the tank

What does that mean? whats bouncy?

What do you mean by clean the tank, scrape the acrylic walls of the tank, or actually clean the gravel , plants, filter , etc.????
Title: Re: rc fish tank cleaner
Post by: cooldog on December 03, 2007, 03:56:49 PM
clean the Aggi off the walls

buoyancy is gr. 8 science
buoyancy is how much a object floats
e.x. a boat has lots of buoyancy but a rock has non
Title: Re: rc fish tank cleaner
Post by: airman00 on December 03, 2007, 06:22:18 PM
clean the Aggi off the walls

buoyancy is gr. 8 science
buoyancy is how much a object floats
e.x. a boat has lots of buoyancy but a rock has non

Its not AGGI its algae and buoyancy is not the same thing as bouncy   :P


I would do something like this : http://www.instructables.com/id/Fish-tank-cleaner/ (http://www.instructables.com/id/Fish-tank-cleaner/)

Then on the outside I would have a car with a magnet driving the cleaner around form the outside ( with the cleaner on the inside)


How can it use it s own buoyancy ? Meaning you  want to change the buoyancy ( submarine) to clean the tank?  Thats a bit difficult!
Title: Re: rc fish tank cleaner
Post by: SmAsH on January 11, 2008, 05:49:30 PM
use a robot arm on outside and magnet on it...then magnet on cloth or somthing...anyway good luck ;D