Team Troubles Robot Projects

[calumco]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

well i have done it.............-very nearly finished one of the worst looking robots i've ever made, with its massive clown wheels and square chassis, i think it looks bloody horrible and im looking forward to making Trouble Starter 2 already with massive changes in mind - overall im not blameing the wheels- which grant supplied with the drum end caps and a few other parts as its just my bad design, which i feel would have looked one hell of a lot better if i had the origional wheel protection on - but unfortunatly the weight wouldn't allow for it.
the one good thing about the robot should be that its gonna have a half decent weapon at least and aswell as that be invertible other than that im really not happy with it.

it makes me cringe to think about it, but ill put a few pics up on here, all i need to do now is drill and tap alot of mounting holes for the top armour but seeing as im out of the right sized bolts i need, i decided to call it a day.

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thats 35mms worth of HDPE (15mm chassis and a 20mm piece bolted ontop of that) at the back of the robot to hopefully defend against horizontals and to also offer a bit of rear wheel protection

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thats a view from the front,- thats where the drum will go inbetween the ali bulkheads- which is actually on its way to kenny because its off ballance etc so he's gonna sort it out for me

heres another pic of a rambot im throwing together for one of team mates to have a mess about with at some point during the weekend which after ill hopefully sell to one of them, i just stood the side panels up near the robot to see what it was looking like.- its really just something that can get chucked about in whiteboards.

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this event will be the first and the last time ill use this spinner, fingers crossed the drums gonna be re-usable for the next robot ill make which im going to make sure doesn't look the same:P

[xtreme]

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It looks ok dude.

[xtreme]

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So anything happening? Ill probs get an update of my stuff on my page in the next couple of days. Hows the rambot coming along?

[calumco]

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feeling a bit annoyed, i was wanting to try out my spinner for a drive about- put the link in and smoke fumes out of the reciever and i think from somewhere else- for absoultly no logical reason what so ever as i checked everything several times and it was all ok.

now ive got to try and find out now what still works and what doesn't grrrr

and the rambot is comming along slowly but surley as im trying to mainly get the drag racer and this spinner sorted out.

im off to have a sulk at the thought of the price im gonna have to pay to replace things

[calumco]

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drive speed controllers still ok and so is the reciever even though smoke was comming out of it, but i think i've blown the speed controller that i was gonna control the drum motor with won't no properly untill i've properly tested it- as its not connected to the drum motor yet etc

[calumco]

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update

all problems sorted (thanks nick) and now its so very nearly ready to run. turns out i wired something up wrong which lead to alot of shorting out and smoke etc, but now everythings good.

at first i didn't like the way it looked but the robots grown on me and for some reason i think it looks alright now

litterally just a days work now, waiting for my drum to get sent back to me so then ill get it in place, cut the shaft down to size as its too long and drill and tap some grub screws into each bulk head to hold the shaft in place.

and at the minute i've only got 1 wheel because i've wrecked the threads on one of them because for some reason i forgot to take the chuck screw out and unscrewed the wheel, so basically the screws head has made a right mess of the threads.- so that needs sorting out aswell.

can't upload any pics cos my phones being gay ill sort some out in a few days or so or just when i've got the drum on

[calumco]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

update

the drum has been having problems meaning its taking longer than first thought to sort out, it might be ready intime or it might not, if not then im going to pull out

if the drum is done in time, ill have to get it from kenny on the saturday and ill not really be able to test the robot fully or obvious reasons but it worked before without the teeth on so i just hope lucks on my side

also - incase the drum is done in time i've got to shave alot of weight out of the chassis tomorrow night when i get home from work, so if i still end up going the robot will be there on the saturday morning in bits and ill have to put the majority of it back together then.

dragracer isn't finished either

and i sold my bernerds watch so i can't pause time so im gonna have to rush it all.

fingers crossed

[RogueTwoRobots]

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First robot fights aren't until 10.40am Calum, so if your robot's in bits, we can all help you get it together in time

Fingers crossed

[calumco]

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i just tested out the drive and the weapon motor before i take it all apart, since i rewired the robot-properly about a week ago i hadn't tried it yet:P

and thanks for the offer of help ill probabily need it

looks like it could be fairly nippy- if it gets there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OQT0GwH ... rofilepage

[calumco]

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despite me using up all of my friday night cutting and jigsawing bulk heads to make them lighter etc , sadly the drum wasn't ready in time, and seeing as this spinner was the only robot i wanted to use in full combat i decided to pullout

ill get the robot properly sorted out and do a video of it drumming something in a few weeks or so


2010 uk champs VFTW

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

Shame you ended up not making it along to the event Calum, although robot events can occasionally get a bit un-interesting without a working bot. Saw your drum though, its looking nice. Should be good once there are teeth on it and you've got it spinning nicely.

Its maybe a good thing you had to pull out - I just realised I completely forgot to bring the 27MHz radio gear with me
You still interested in it?

[calumco]

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yh, was ashame i didn't end up going- was looking forward to it aswell, im awating some youtube videos though nudge nudge
normally i might have gone anyway, but because it was so far away i didn't see much point in going without the spinner

by the 2010 uk champs i might have TS2 as the champs are half a year away or so and from driving my spinners chassis on my bedroom carpet aswell as after spending a few hours on saturday putting it back together:P- i had a good old look at it and i think i can build a better chassis to use for then to use with the same drum. will get this one up and running and will go drumming on my local park to see how it does- at the very least i'll have a back up chassis for when TS2 isn't ready in time:P

will probabily go brushless and get some a123s in TS2 i think aswell. as my new job can fund it all

and yeah jamie i'd still like to have it please

[RogueTwoRobots]

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No problem, just having it posted then?
Next time I'm on MSN we can sort it out

[calumco]

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hey all,
just just thought i'd do an update on all the robots i own because i was a bit bored, but also because i brought a new robot.

i now have 5 working feathers- sort of. TJ2 (left of pic), pinsor (right of pic), a random box on wheels with no name (top right) trouble starter without the drum (top left) and in the top middle my newest robot which i brought from dave mac lev 2 which im going to call NL2 which stands for Not Lev 2.

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i've got plans for one more full combat feather but then for feathers that will be my lot, unless a feather gets broken beyond repair then mark 2 or 3 etc will be made to replace it.

TJ2 works nicley at the minute although i see it comming to the end of its life really so next year ill make TJ3 to replace it with a front hinged flipper rather than an electric one.

Pinsors working awesome, and im really hoping to go to reading to really get some proper fights with it. and mabye try and win :twisted:

the box on wheels is working fine.

NL2 is working very nicley indeed, it might look the same but its insides are pretty different now from how they were when i first got it. i made a new battery frame and mounted all the electronics at the back of the robot rather than the front area where they were before. only problem is currently the flipper fires its self-don't really know why . some pics below.

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i did film a video of lev 2 flipping stuff about in my back garden but the video is terrible and really doesn't do the robot justice because the robot kept getting stuck on my patio floor etc, i flipped some of my other robots in the above pic with lev 2- but didn't film that but it throws them nicley into the air so hopefully roll on oota!

and lastly trouble starter, all finished now just waiting for the drum really- something which i originally tried making myself with some end caps made by grant but after so many problems with it, kenny is in the process of sorting it all out for me.
its driving really nicley and its really nippy which will hopefully prove to be good when i get to use the robot.

towards the end of the year im going to make a heavy weight, is going to look like a big version of TJ2 so when its finished envy bring it on!- sadly this will probabily take forever to make as my new job takes up all my free time, but i can't really compalin because it does pay for the robot stuff.

will make a next post when the drums back in my hands and its all working

[calumco]

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was bored today so me n a few mates made a bodge job arena in my back garden, flimed it, edited out the boring bits and stuck it on youtube with some pendulum music

fun times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFTxqka9nzM