RogueTwo Robots

[psychostorm]

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Of all the years I could have opted to have that in Scotland, it wasn't until I was halfway across the world, in Peru, before I actually tried it! Although over there, a Mars Bar is called a Milky Way. Confusing or what?!

Thank god, you didn't eat the Mars bar - it's got almonds in it!

Yeah, the founder's son took the UK expansion operations after an argument. Mars had the almonds removed for allergies/availability. Milky way was based off 1 of 3 flavour choc pack. Twix, opal fruits (star burst), Marathon (Snickers), Topic & skittles all started in the UK.

*sigh* I know lots of irrelevant stuff like this - why can't I get a job?

[RogueTwoRobots]

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Well it's been a bit quiet on this front for a while. Took a break from building after the AWS event in July as I was lacking the motivation to build stuff, so I turned my attentions to getting a workshop set up in the back garden. A fair few weekends (and numerous trips to B&Q) later and it's at the photogenic stage:



It's lit by 6m worth of ultra-bright LED strip lights from Giant-Cod (300 LEDs in total) powered by a 12V battery. For roughly £40, it's really bright and gives a much more even spread of lighting than a conventional neon strip light or a couple of bulbs would.



My mild OCD got the better of me when mounting stuff on the walls.



This back wall/bench is just a dumping ground for bits and bobs just now but I will shortly be looking into getting a pillar drill, bench grinder and vice installed (any recommendations for makes/models welcomed) and will chuck my old computer in there too for some CAD-ing/music.

I've yet to actually do any bot building in it, but it's such a nice feeling getting it all out of my bedroom!
I have, however, been accumulating parts over the past couple of weeks for the bots (mainly Drumroll and Paws) so there will be regular updates on their way soon. Going to give the whole fleet an overhaul this winter so that will keep me busy!

[PJ-27]

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Image links aren't working for me?

EDIT: The refresh after posting this brought them up.............

[Anttazz]

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No photos of the solar panel or windmill that you've inevitably used to power this new creation?

[calumco]

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looking very nice jamie, reminds me of my shed before anything and everything got put inside it lol

i made box section tables inside mine too, i think its better than buying anything cause you can make everything to the size you want

i got a pillar drill for £40 from aldi like 2 years go and it does me fine.

best advice i can give you is don't let your parents put anything inside your shed, because once they have 1 thing in that'll be it lol had 4 bags of compost inside mine before :P

[gizz]

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haha owned by parents
On a serious note tho, good jub. Looks like a great place to be building stuff in.

[Anttazz]

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Just spotted something else, is that a BW-ish sized flipper I spy next to Paws?

[psychostorm]

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Just spotted something else, is that a BW-ish sized flipper I spy next to Paws?

That old thing? It's the old Beetleweight Cassius that Jamie was planning to build. Or did he decide on Mute. Either way, old news. Good to see it again though.

Have you got one of Kaizer's old lids in there? Is that Boner's shell? Is this constant questioning annoying ?

[RogueTwoRobots]

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Yeah it was the Cassius replica from way back around June 2010. I did contemplate changing it to Mute but considering that I'm not planning on progressing with that one yet, I don't really need to worry about it.

Got two of Kaizer's old lids in there
Got the first one, which was just a sheet of old computer desk steel that was screwed onto some polycarb, then the Mk2 armour/shell. Not fussed about the first one but I'll be mounting the second one on one of the walls for posterity's sake. Same goes for the old Drumroll/Boner shell (it was surplus when Gary built the new Boner so he let me have it back)

Tony, I haven't yet invested in a solar panel for the roof but it's on my to-do list. Windmills are out of the equation though as, being an end-terraced house, they'd probably be subjected to hostile attacks from any local stone-wielding neds
Calum, there's a second shed next to mine that's for all the general house/garden stuff but it's the other way round for me - I've already started dumping my spare stuff in there instead!

[RogueTwoRobots]

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I'm off work next week and will be going to Stornoway on Tuesday to meet up with some uni friends. They're both pretty geeky so I've decided to make a couple of robots to take with me for some fun, and since beetleweights will probably fit in a suitcase nicely, I've set myself the challenge of getting two working beetleweights made over the weekend

Neither will probably be based on any existing designs as it'll be easier just to build around what parts I've got. But weapons-wise I've got a big-ass servo and a big-ass brushless motor/controller so a lifter and spinner could well be the two resulting robots. Including Monday, that gives me three days build time. Will be a good test of my new workshop!

Tune in next week to see if I succeed or (most likely) fail epically

[RogueTwoRobots]

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Update

Today was a bit of a motivation fail, seeing as I didn't wake till midday and didn't get showered/dressed until half two. Then when I took my batteries out to the shed to plug back into the lighting, I accidentally shorted the wires and the lights went out. Thought I'd blown all the LEDs but traced it to a dodgy connection and eventually managed to get the lights back on.

Anyway, as a result not much actual physical building took place today but I've settled on the designs and did a quick couple of parts mock-ups. First up is just a basic lifter/flipper design:



Drive is a couple of 1000rpm gearmotors from 'VirtualVillage' on eBay onto 48mm Banebots wheels. The weapon is a servo-powered lifter/flipper (servo has 20kg/cm of torque) connected directly to the servo horn, and I'll make a pivot point on the other side of the servo to support the arm. Power is from a 6V, 1800mAh Ni-cad pack powering both motors and receiver. And drive control is from a couple of boat winch ESCs from eBay. Apparently they don't actually offer much speed control beyond fully-on and fully-off but since I'm trying to use stuff I already have, they will do. Nice and compact too. No idea what to call it yet.

The second robot is what I consider to be a very generic US robot design, but one which remains very destructive with the right components and implementation; the horizontal bar spinner:



Tentatively calling this one Spin Cycle. The blade is 3mm steel but won't be that long, I'll cut it down when I know how much space I have to work with. I'll just be leaving it as a single bar for now but if there's spare weight, I'll add some 5mm steel cuts top and bottom (13mm thick in total) at the ends of the bar to increase inertia and possible damage. Same drive motors as above but with bigger 60mm wheels (from Paws). The controller is a Scorpion XL, brushless motor is an 1100kV E-Power something-or-other from GiantCod (seems the business and gets great reviews) geared down roughly 2:1, and brushless ESC is a 40A Black Mantis model. All powered by an 11.1V lipo pack.

I'm actually expecting the spinner mechanism to be one of the easier parts of both builds as mounting the brushless, fitting bearings and bolting in a shaft should all be pretty straight-forward (famous last words!).
Hope to have most of the construction done tomorrow as I'll be getting up much earlier ( ) so will try for some vids/spin-ups on Monday.

[Ellis]

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They're both looking great! That brushless looks pretty meaty, should make for a seriously nice weapon. Are these more or less beetleweights?

[Anttazz]

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since beetleweights will probably fit in a suitcase nicely, I've set myself the challenge of getting two working beetleweights made over the weekend

More, less and entirely.

[Ellis]

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I knew that! I was... you know... just... s-seeing if... you, uh, if you d-did!

[RogueTwoRobots]

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Haha, nice cover-up

As it's just going to be for some fun amongst friends I'm not too fussed if they're overweight come Monday, but if I can get them within the weight limit or they're overweight but don't need drastic action to bring them underweight, then it's all the better as it means I can keep them running and compete with them.

I'm also rethinking the whole make-a-RW-replica, as it's been so much easier to just throw these parts together into something resembling a robot, rather than being constrained by the shape or size of a scaled-down replica. To that end, I won't be pursuing the Cassius replica beetleweight anymore, although I still want to get Paws built as it's a bit more unique and interesting.