{"id":930,"date":"2022-10-12T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/?p=930"},"modified":"2023-10-12T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T21:33:04","slug":"merrdur-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"MERRdur Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>*Best Engineering Award*<\/strong>\n<strong><em>by Richard Tang, Matt Brown, Rithwik Raghuram, Erik Costello.<\/em><\/strong>\r<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The toy is a remote-controlled tank with directional controlled projectile firing capabilities. The idea originated from expanding on the RC car but including a fun shooting feature anyone would enjoy. The firing mechanism consists of a barrel, plunger with rack attached, spring for firing power, and a 2:1 gear ratio for a torque increase coming from a DC motor. Kids around the world constantly crave new remote-controlled products and this toy would allow for an easy interface that you can download on your phone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"379\" class=\"wp-image-932\" style=\"width: 480px;\" src=\"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-19.png 590w, https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-19-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-19-250x197.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"285\" height=\"379\" class=\"wp-image-933\" style=\"width: 285px;\" src=\"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-20.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-20.png 356w, https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-20-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-20-250x332.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Best Engineering Award* by Richard Tang, Matt Brown, Rithwik Raghuram, Erik Costello. The toy is a remote-controlled tank with directional controlled projectile firing capabilities. The idea originated from expanding on the RC car but including a fun shooting feature anyone would enjoy. The firing mechanism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/?p=930\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MERRdur Tank<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2022-projects","category-past-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Engineering.Purdue.edu\/toydesign\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}