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Draw-Your-Track Marker Pen Following Inductive Tank Tech Toy

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This fascinating tank does not need a track to guide it; just a simple black line. Draw any shaped track with the included marker (felt tip) pen (or use your own), switch the tank on and watch it follow the line. Great fun.

- Felt Pen, and AG13 batteries are included (please note: batteries are as provided by the manufacturer and are packaged in the retail box, brand new batteries suggested - cheaply available here)

- Also included are a detailed English manual and a sample track

- A small philips screw driver is required to open and close the battery bay (also cheaply available here)

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Cool

Posted by WPUSB on 1/22/2008
Involvement: General (knows how to use it) - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

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Pros: Well built, Suprised it works as well as it does. Follows the lines well. 
Cons: None 
Other Thoughts: Fun for kids. 
Bottomline: Good as it comes with everything you need! 
					

awesome tank

Posted by lalalandrus on 1/4/2008
Involvement: Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership: more than 1 month

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Pros: -batteries included
-pen included
-follows lines
-works as described
-cheap 
Cons: -batteries are not standard batteries(AA or AAA) and non-rechargable

 
Other Thoughts: not very useful, but fun to have and own  
Bottomline: works really well as long as you realize the limitation of the turning radius of the tank. finally, it is also fun to watch it run without the lines. 
					

v cool item

Posted by bazillite on 12/25/2007
Involvement: General (knows how to use it) - Ownership: less than 1 day

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Pros: it comes with a batterys and a pen you can make some prity intersting tracks for it 
Cons:  small then i emagined 
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Bottomline: dad has taken to work to gard his bench drawn a line all the way round his bench and i have another on order 
					

Great toy or robot track base.

Posted by Ghlargh on 12/10/2007
Involvement: Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

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Pros: Cheap and fairly well working tracked toy.
Great for building your own tracked robot or RC tank. 
Cons: The tracks come off too easily.
Should really have been built for better batteries. 
Other Thoughts: I threw out the track-following feature and mounted the RC components from a tiny RC car in the chassi to get a small RC tank, i allso replaced the 4 button cells with a cellphone lithium battery.
I allso made a new front axel further forward for the track and covered the driving wheels with silicone to prevent it from dropping the track or loosing tracktion.
Of the 4 button cells, 2 power the control logic and 2 power the motors, so you usually only need to replace 2 cells. 
Bottomline: Great as a kids (or grownups) toy, or as a base for making a cheap tiny RC tank or robot. 
					

Specifications

Dimensions: 0 in x 0 in x 0 in
Weight: 5.0441765517 oz