Questions/builds thread.

[Ellis]

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Oooh! I had never noticed that. Here's hoping!

Dad just came home with 5mm chopping board for our top plates. The whole robot is made from varying thicknesses. Are we the only robot to have been made entirely from chopping boards?

[Danjr1]

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Mine was going to be all HDPE but I've got enough weight left to add a 3mm steel band around the sides

[PJ-27]

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That's not Inertia XL, that's just a completely different robot!?

[teamshock]

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The chances are I will be using an anti-spinner device this year for fighting NST however it has changed a little bit this year :twisted:

[Ellis]

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Quick video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nelFHBSR ... s5-DmEcW8=

Please excuse my driving; I can't get it to go in a straight line safely in the house, haha. It's (oddly) quite hard to control at low speeds.

So, lifter is more or less complete. Let us know what you think!

Armour next.

[archie2000]

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think it looks pretty awsome

[Bodge Job]

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That's awsome!

[mattsdragons]

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I really like the design of it, 4-bar electric lifter, dont think thats been done before, have to see how it fairs at the champs, cant wait to fight it

[PJ-27]

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Your using Electronize right? Turn down the rate on them, it'll give you more low end control. That should help.

Just watched the vid, very impressed with how nippy it is, especially on those drill batteries.

It's a very good first robot, that lifter mech looks very sound.

[Bodge Job]

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I really like the design of it, 4-bar electric lifter, dont think thats been done before

Thought storm 2 was made in to a 4 bar lifter?

[Ellis]

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I really like the design of it, 4-bar electric lifter, dont think thats been done before

Thought storm 2 was made in to a 4 bar lifter?

Yeah, I believe it uses a geared down electric motor directly onto the back 'legs'. Biohazard used modified linear actuators for its weapon, if I remember correctly. It has been done, perhaps not with such amazing welds as ours, though.

Thanks for the kind words, guys!

Edit: oooh, 400 posts.

[mattsdragons]

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Ah Ye, forgot about them? I ment with this kind of system in FW's

[Ellis]

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Nothing majorly interesting from tonight; just a cardboard mockup of the armour to be. Only brainstorming, the shape is likely to change.



I'd like to say the tiles have been damaged by the robot, but my dad happened to fill in the grout gaps today. I came >this< close to pretending, then I realised how sad that would be.

[Ellis]

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We spent a surprisingly long time beginning with the armour yesterday. We had compound angles to deal with that we hadn't expected, so we didn't get masses done (or we did, depending on how you look at it...)

Two chunks of chopping board that vary in thickness from about 22mm to 24mm thick. Should keep most of the nasty stuff at bay, as long as I can consistently point the front of our robot at the spinny things.

Between these two pieces alone we've added almost a kilo in weight!

A few pics: http://s1088.photobucket.com/albums/i32 ... elentless/

It's really going to change the way the whole thing looks.

[ewan]

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Wow, bulky armour 0_0. Looks great, I'm especially liking the 4 bar ratio which ought to work much better than a simple pivot in this arrangement.
Only thing I'd change is the drill packs, could have something with much more performance for less weight & volume for only £30-35 these days!