UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

[Bodge Job]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

So is there going to be an event soon? I know there was talk about taking the arena to the Guildford event, but havent heard much since.

[PJ-27]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

Did customs give you any trouble?

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

So is there going to be an event soon? I know there was talk about taking the arena to the Guildford event, but havent heard much since.

Probably best if you have a beetleweight, just to take it along. If the arena's there, the arena's there. If not, you could always just run in a small section of the RR arena between shows or something.

[typhoon_driver]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

There's many of these style motors on ebay atm,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-x-12V-DC-1000RP ... 51988931d6

Any use?

[widow_twanky]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

There's many of these style motors on ebay atm,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-x-12V-DC-1000RP ... 51988931d6

Any use?

I've got a set of those in one I'm building atm. Not wired them up so can't say if they are good bad or whatever. They are a good size for kilobots and pretty easy to make brackets for (bend a bit of 2mm ali and drill the holes out) and the banebots wheels fit quite nicely onto them.

[jonny]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

i beleive some australian beetles use them

[Mouldy]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

Did customs give you any trouble?

Nope- never had any problems with customs when ordering via RMP... They send parcels labeled as toys or replacement toy components apparently...that way customs don't really bother checking

[PJ-27]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

Awesome!

[PJ-27]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

Been having a play around withe Team Cosmos KE calculator;

http://www.teamcosmos.com/ke/ke.shtml

(Had to use IE and a Windows machine, nothing else would work!)

And I get a calculation of about 6000 Foot Poundals and 280 Joules.

Firstly these numbers are any thing but arbitrary to me, they mean nothing. Are they any good? Can someone give me some scale?

Secondly I thought 1 Joule = 1 Newton-Meter but a foot pound is about 1.3 newton meters, which gives me a Joules calculation more like 8100?

Confused!

[daliad100]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

Poundals are a measure of force not torque (ft lb /s^2) so foot poundals are a measure of energy.

[kodster]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

I believe Hypno-Disc put out 4kJ with every fully-spun disc hit, I can't remember whether this was in S3 or S4, but you saw how easily that tore apart Robogeddon, Stealth, The Predator, and most noticeably Splinter, and those were all around 80kg. 280J should be more than enough in a 1.362kg spinner.

[webby]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

could u use to of these as a cluster bot? http://www.robotmarketplace.com/product ... X8800.html

[joey_picus]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

You probably could, but I saw one of those back at Barnsley and they are...not incredibly fast.

[daliad100]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

It has infra red control which although allowed in the rules will probably get a lot of interference from other light sources, is very slow, probably has no failsafes and will probably be smashed very quickly seeing some of the spinners being made.

So overall not worth the hassle to make it competetive.

[Bodge Job]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

What size is every bodys beetles?

Mine is 250mm long, 210mm wide and 80mm high.