Team Saint Robot Builds

[craig_colliass]

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A little bit more done, with the rear wheels on you get a bit better idea of how it will look.

[Ellis]

Is it not going to tip forward when you stand on it, or will there be castors there/ballast at the back?

[craig_colliass]

Old Saint Sword

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The new Saint Sword

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1200mm long 12mm thick 75mm broad titanium

May chuck it in the van this weekend.

[Bacon Wizard]

blimey! how much did that set you back, if you don't mind?

[Ellis]

Now that's just plain cool.

[psychostorm]

If there's a flame jet, any chance of you coating it in paraffin?

[Mouldy]

if that the piece of ti i gave to ed ages ago for it?

[craig_colliass]

Haven't looked on this thread for a while!
Yes Dave this is the bit of Ti. I got it back off Ed a few weeks ago and Got it machined up quickly. I think the guy who did the machining had some problems with it, but the end result is impressive, the handle is being made now so it may be ready for it's test at Guildford.
I am not sure if I will be able to attend all the day's fun, as It is my other half's birthday party the day before!!

Did a bit on Cherub this afternoon I hadn't looked at the robots since the last event Cherub did OK I had to replace a few bolts that dropped off. I think I must have forgotten to tighten them up! The batteries worked very well and Zack was impressed on how well it drove rare praise indeed.

[Mouldy]

Not surprised, it was flame cut grade 10 of the end of a massive solid slab of ti, the width of that blade was the thickness of the original block that was a few meters across! ... Was basically a piece of swarf compared to what it came from Looking forward to videos!

[craig_colliass]

I was thinking about this fight and wondered "What dose Saint have to do to win?" In this one we were judged 3rd.
I must now state I am not looking for sympathy or have some blood lust for the judges. So please no criticism of anyone!

I just want to know what we did wrong so we can work on improving our record regarding competition wins. any ideas welcome.

Or is it Saint is just a totally rubbish robot.

[swanaldo]

Craig....the masses would have been watching the boring flippers. I watched your robot...it was actually quite flawless. It got a shed loads of hits...it it were Thor then Thor would have won. If I were watching your robot and judged the fight on hit counts you would have won. I guess your robot is good enough for the win....just not for the show and the crowds. After all it is a show and not a competition.

[psychostorm]

No flames on the sword, that's why you weren't first, Craig. Kidding, I've no idea. Asides a flaming sword.

[Max]

I am not trying to I insult your robot, I think its great because it is so different and not just a flipper. But in that fight from my perspective it didn't really achieve much, it does little damage to the other robots and just seemed go chasing around the flipping robots which were fighting each other whereas saint just ran into them and bounced off. But saying that I was just glancing at the video so may have missed something.
I thought it was more interesting/exciting with the big hammer thingy on it which sounded like it did real damage even though I doubt it did much to hardox. As entertaining as saint is, I think it will struggle to win a fight as it cannot really defeat another robot without pushing it into the pit- it's not going to break it and can't flip it out- perhaps that is just the problem with our scoring system. Like I said just my thoughts and I can't really remember who pitted behemoth so if that was saint that changes things a bit.

[craig_colliass]

Listening to the sermon this evening the LORD reminded me of a lesson I learnt many years ago and evidently forgot.
Success and failure, winning and losing are merely different sides of the same lie!
The emphasis is on result and not on character, what people think rather on what is true and good.
So I have decided my original question is the problem,

It is not why didn’t it win?

But how did it perform?

Looking at the video again, Saint was always going forward and engaging the other robots, I counted 18 good hits, it was well driven (by Zack) didn’t stop trying all through the fight, the other robots didn’t flip it much, as has been said to me before
“Craig flipping Saint is just a waist of gas; it always lands back on its wheels.”

So in conclusion

Thor’s axe can’t cut through it.
Tiberius beak can’t penetrate it.
Kan opener’s claws can’t crush it
Storm can’t stop it
No flipper can turn it turtle
Even the pit can’t hold it.

It does all this with 2 old Bosch motors, some chains, an old 180 Wotty and 2 lead acid batteries!!!
Given the same I challenge anyone to do better.
IT’S THE SAINT AND I AM PROUD TO HAVE DESIGNED AND BUILT IT.
So in my book it wins

[swanaldo]

Amen to that Craig