Team Shock's new Beetleweight

[teamshock]

I finally got my beetle spinning today. Looks like its going to work well.

The design

It's a horizontal spinner with a single tooth 110mm Hardox disc and a waterjet cut aluminium chassis.
Disc is powered by a 28mm outrunner on 1:1 ratio with a red brick ESC on 3s Lipo.
Drive is 2 pololu motors with banebots wheels and botbitz ESCs
Will all be armoured in 2mm ti and 5mm HDPE and is currently just under 1kg with everything except armour.

And a spin up test

http://youtu.be/GUGdzOOMQCc

I aim to fit the drive tomorrow and give it a full test then but it seems good so far.

[teamshock]

Finished the beetle today. Now has 1.5mm steel for armour but since it only weighs 1.1kg I can always add more if I need to.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scbq7...d4SNe6vgth2LlA

[psychostorm]

Dimensions?

[teamshock]

180mm long x 180mm wide x 40mm high

Disc is 110mm diameter and 6mm thick

[teamshock]

I've spent the last couple of days working on a new beetle to run alongside Soundwave- Mantle.

It's a quarter size version of the heavyweight with a large servo to power the flipper (30kgs torque at 6v but will be running directly from a 2s LiPo).

Armour is only 1.5mm mild steel but is easy enough to patch up.

Managed to get it driving today- next job is to mount the flipper servo and get it finished.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsQ8TdlRdZ8

[adz600]

Nice job Will just need a manta feather next, give you somthing to do in the shed this Christmas

[teamshock]

Thanks! Might have to start work on a feather version!

The beetle is all up and running now. Seems to work well and was 1.5kg on my scales so pretty happy.

First layer of paint is on- just need to add the blue now.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRtWlFvLnNU

[playzooki]

Cool

[teamshock]

All done.

Here it is alongside the heavyweight.

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[harry hills]

Looks so neat, I want one

Harry

[playzooki]

Father and son - D'awwwwww

[john_frizell]

Is there anywhere to fight beetles? Is anyone bringing an arena that can take beetle weights to live events?

[harry hills]

Shane has the arena, The Slaugherhouse, http://bigconkers.com/projects/big-c...slaughterhouse

Only had one outing so far, but got more lined up for some robotslive events next year.

Harry.

[john_frizell]

Hi Will, What drive motors did you use for the flipper beetle you were running at Burgess Hill?

[teamshock]

Hi John,

Both of my beetles use these motors from Pololu http://www.pololu.com/product/1572

The flipper runs them on 2s Lipo and my spinner runs on 3s