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Hi to everyone on the forum.
I've been a Robot Wars fan for many years, and watched religiously when it was on TV back in the day. I always wanted to get into building a fighting machine, but was never able to get anything together. Thanks to all of the information and resources (and silently lurking) on this website, recently I got a few ideas to create a Beetleweight, due to off the shelf parts being easily available, a reasonable price, and of course the safety aspect of a smaller machine. in its first form its almost complete, so I thought I would show it to you guys. (hopefully these pictures work)
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(My youngest somehow managed to get in the 2nd pic
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Its a 4WD wedgy 4 bar lifter type robot, that I put together just for fun initially, but I'm leaning towards going for one of the Kinematics events, which is why I've also tried to make it compliant with the build rules (it has a removable link, it failsafes, power on light etc)
The chassis is HDPE (which a lot of people on the forum seem to swear by), outer panels are 3mm Polycarbonate and Aluminium. The lifter is powered by a 20kg servo, and the drive is also servos at the moment, but this will almost certainly change, as its crazy slow!
I'm not going to pretend that its a winner in any way, (far from it judging by the standard in the build threads section) but it does what I set out to do. It moves and drives, can lift stuff and looks pretty much how I wanted, so I'm pretty chuffed.
Naturally now that I've put stuff together, I now want to take it all apart and start again with all of the new knowledge that I've learnt
I've been a Robot Wars fan for many years, and watched religiously when it was on TV back in the day. I always wanted to get into building a fighting machine, but was never able to get anything together. Thanks to all of the information and resources (and silently lurking) on this website, recently I got a few ideas to create a Beetleweight, due to off the shelf parts being easily available, a reasonable price, and of course the safety aspect of a smaller machine. in its first form its almost complete, so I thought I would show it to you guys. (hopefully these pictures work)
20160818_093107.jpg20160818_093134.jpg
(My youngest somehow managed to get in the 2nd pic
)Its a 4WD wedgy 4 bar lifter type robot, that I put together just for fun initially, but I'm leaning towards going for one of the Kinematics events, which is why I've also tried to make it compliant with the build rules (it has a removable link, it failsafes, power on light etc)
The chassis is HDPE (which a lot of people on the forum seem to swear by), outer panels are 3mm Polycarbonate and Aluminium. The lifter is powered by a 20kg servo, and the drive is also servos at the moment, but this will almost certainly change, as its crazy slow!
I'm not going to pretend that its a winner in any way, (far from it judging by the standard in the build threads section) but it does what I set out to do. It moves and drives, can lift stuff and looks pretty much how I wanted, so I'm pretty chuffed.
Naturally now that I've put stuff together, I now want to take it all apart and start again with all of the new knowledge that I've learnt
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