Struggling with printing the gears without having any specs for them.  Anyone know what they are (pitch, number of teeth, diameter etc).  I appreciate I can use the OpenScad script for generating the gears, but I need the specs!

Oh, and my buggy's body parts took 13 hours to print on the Replicator, but which time they had drooped and warped so much I had to use a heat gun to soften them up and pull them back into position. Then lots of acetone glue to fill the cracks.  Ugly, but paintable.

this ia an awesome design, just finished four days of nonstop print-run to finish it . some suggestions: the makerbot kit is great, and has a really nice radio with all the adjustments you need, however the built in battery pack is ass, to use a technical term. The 4 AA 6V pack does not provide enough torque (with fresh batteries) to actually move the buggy forward. Part of this problem is because of the lack of gear lash adjustment between the motor pinion and the middle gearbox gear - the fit there is too tight and requires more torque energy than those poor AA's can put out, loosening this connection and making it a little sloppier/looser will improve this and remove the binding that is stopping the initaition of motor rotation. But thankfully the kit comes wired with RC standard JST connectors - so another option is to use an off the shelf 2S 7.2 V LiPoly pack available at hobby stores which can deliver more oomph speed and torque. The suspension design via the flexible axels is a clever solution. More comments as I shake this thing out. Very tempted to put a brushless motor and a real differential gear box in this thing.... cute. and thanks for the design and the kit makerbot folks. it's a new world.

could someone with a finished car weigh it? to estimate the amount of material used. Would like to build and design my own... trying to estimate cost of using a maker bot in my little factory :)

Which DC Motor, ESC and spur gears do you need for this? I had everything else laying around but I can't seem to find these parts easily.

When generating gcode in replicatorg 2.9 r2 on interior.stl I get the message "something will still be printed, but there is no guarantee that it will be the correct shape. Once gcode is saved, you should check over the layer with a z of: 22.05" the print was not successful.

I'm so close to printing this entire thing out, but I'm stuck on the Axel. Generating the GCode for it crashes Skeinforge every time. I've tried to change the shells and the infill, but it is red error code as far as the eye can see. I'm trying to print using SF35-Thingomatic-HBP-Mk6. It looks like it is hanging after the "Inset" step. Has anyone else had this problem, and/or does anyone else have a solution?

If you print a mold for the tires, you might be able to make those too, out of sugru for instance. Idea?

What occurred to me on wheeled toys is: What if you made a groove around the wheel that would accept an O ring?

Ooops!

I decided to try printing the Botmobile. The front and the inside printed well. The back end was another matter. Three quarters through the print one portion of the print lifted about .190" up from the platform.

You can see the resulting gap in the body shown in the picture.

I think I've lost interest in this vehicle. :'(

is the kit compatible with the turtle shell racer?