Team Troubles Robot Projects

[calumco]

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More done, flipper blade on the feather and beefed up the top of the arm where it was bending, this robots almost done now at long last so gonna wire up sunday night and have a drive about be nice having a working robot again

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and also about a week ago i did some to this, its the start of a 6 wheel drive feather runing off 2 drills that dave gave me a while ago, so i made spacers from hdpe and put a pair of motors in i've ordered wheels for it just waiting for them to arrive, won't be as good as the one hes doing, but i just want a box to have as a back up robot plus the 2 wheel drive box i have is boring so im going to take that to the next feather champs to get rid of it lol

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will have hadox sides n lid and a 3mm ali base, will probabily do a lifter running of a drill storm 2 style but will need to have a think about all the gearing n that before hand

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where did u get the cylinder from?

looking good

[calumco]

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i brought a robot called lev 2 awhile ago and it came in that,

its 50m bore and about 70m stroke or something its pretty good, but its really heavy- 3kg!! lol so im going to have to get a lighter one made to the same size eventually.

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3KG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THATS ALOT
when u r getting a new one where or who r u getting it from


Theo

[calumco]

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ill get kenny to make it for me probabily, give him a kfc for his troubles :P

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lol


how much is a double acting cylinder?


Theo

[calumco]

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dunno depends on size and everything, that 1 i've got is double acting but i just use it as single acting and ill probabily put bungee cord on it to return the flipper arm properly

[calumco]

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the ali feathers so very nearly done took weight out of one of the main bulkheads and its 800g lighter! and theres a bit more to get out of it aswell.

its half wired up aswell and its looking nice, litterally just finishing touches now and it'll be good to go

also im not bothering with pinsor anymore, cos A-it weights a ton and B-using what i've learnt from making/using it im gonna make something which will be amazingly better and lighter and 4 wheel drive for a start so its actually controllable. - the plan was to put a car jack in to give it a few 100 kg of force, but i dont really wana wreck peoples robots, but just being able to grab robots is pointless because then the problem was it was just a pulling and pushing match- so the new one will grab and lift it will be nothing the old pinsor and im not using box section lol

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why not just sell the box bit
someone would use it e.g use it as a frame for a new robot or cut it up and use that

Theo

[calumco]

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not really worth selling, its made to have all the parts i litterally used in the robot all inside- can't really have any other innards put in so wouldn't be much use to anyone else

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O
unless someone wants to build a robot the same way like if u have a big big big big big big big e.t.c fan who want to build it
which would be weird (please can there be no big big big big big big big e.t.c fan )

Theo

[calumco]

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lol i doubt it has anyfans it wasn't very effective anyway :P

ali feather is still once again almost done, heres a test video i did a few weeks ago running on about 5-6 bar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ojmVnHjKo

heres the flipper arm all cleaned down and primed up for the red coloured spray paint which ill do next week,

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and heres the chassis in its current shape, other side needs armour over the pod bit and still got weight saving to do on the poly used to self right it aswell as few other areas

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might not be the most interesting shape or anything, but it'd rather just have a robot that works and is really reliable rather then something that looks great so i won't be as bothered about it taking damage

[RogueTwoRobots]

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lol i doubt it has anyfans it wasn't very effective anyway :P

It'll always have a fan in the form of meeeee

Flipper feather's looking pretty good; I have to admit, when I first saw it take shape I wasn't sure on it, thought it looked really tall and awkward, but it's come on quite nicely
Drive seems nice and smooth and looks like it flips well. Liking the homemade arena too, well until you wrecked it with the first flip

What was the robot whose chassis you're flipping btw?

[calumco]

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think its safe to say your its number 1 fan :P

yeah i didnt bolt it together properly cos it was late and cold so it fell apart lol

and it was the flipper i made before this one, it never got used sadly cos it was designed badly and was a rush job so bent it's self after a few flips and because internals where in the way it couldn't be strengthened or anything.

in 4 or 5 days time i would have been making that ali feather for a year lol

[calumco]

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flipper arm sprayed...

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layed on robot.....

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