Skipdiving Robotics

[daveimi]

First run! Going well round the kitchen!




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[daveimi]

It has a roof!! Its making me laugh how battered the stuff I make looks even before it's had a fight! A by-product of using recycled bits I suppose I'm thinking about making some sides and giving it a lick of paint, umming and arring about bright pink or orange!

[Mega Masher]

Looks great so far, but some side protection may be advisable to protect against horizontal spinners.

[daveimi]

Thanks for the reply! I'm making some side bumpers that will cover up the wheels and open gaps etc. I ran out of angle after making one so just on the scavenge for a bit more from somewhere lol

I'm not planning on entering against spinners, I know this wouldn't be strong enough and I see that as the upper levels of robot fighting. I'm planning on entering this next year in some random events and if I do fairly ok I'll build something hardcore to come and batter the spinners with

I really need to learn to weld.

[daveimi]

Managed to scavenge some more angle. The more I add to the robot the worse it gets haha. Anyway, side bumpers added. 12V LED is on the way, cash is moving to Paypal for a Robochallenge removable link and I'm going to buy some paint for it on Friday. I'm planning on painting it lime green or orange over the weekend. At the weekend I'm also going to sign up to the Doncaster Dome event and will be coming along with my brother and his friend as part of my team lol as the old man is on holiday. Oh and we've been bidding on a lecky wheel chair and have obtained an empty CO2 fire extinguisher bottle! Latest pic of ramshackleness...and potty. And stray socket set. Oh and I've started shortening bolts! Also I've become a paid up member of the FRA!

[Danny B]

If you're looking at a good paint job, I would suggest doing the body in green. Paint the spear red and continue a red stripe running over the top, then it would match the tyres.

[daveimi]

That sounds really cool! I was going to leave it as-is but decided it looks too much of a state to not paint it lol. I'd thought about black with neon green highlights like Karkas

[Danny B]

That's not a bad idea. Were you still planning on putting lights inside it?

[daveimi]

Yeah was thinking about it but I would also need proper LED's as a power indicator.

[Danny B]

Fair enough.
I forgot to ask, how did you come up with the name?

[daveimi]

Rag N' Bone? Erm my team is Skipdiving Robotics as everything is made from found parts or pulled out of bins so thought I needed rubbish based names lol. We used to have rag n bone men driving about n they collected scrap n the name sounded narly...well sort of . Future names maybe surplus special and scrapdaddy but think thats taken lol.

How is your robot going?

[Danny B]

Well I know Scrapdaddy was a Battlebots entry, so it's definitely taken. What about 'Rig of the dump' or 'Trashcan wallop'?

My bot's going fairly well, although it hasn't been without problems. I've had to get a new charger due to the first one being internally damaged, but that's not a big deal. I've decided to use my remaining weight allowance on a removable second layer of armour. It was going to be all steel, but I've had to use aluminium for the back and sides in order to stay within the weight limit.
On the plus side, I've started putting my artistic skills to good use on the lid!
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[daveimi]

That's really cool. I was going to look into buying a kit but got worried that if something got mangled I'm constantly be on the phone to the sellers etc with my wallet out. As shonky as my robot is at least if something gets mangled I hack up a bit of chopping board or the side of another pc to make a lid. But I really like those kits. I've come close to buying one a few times. Nice paint job by the way!

[Danny B]

I know what you mean. That's the main reason for the second skin, so that the robot should at least be able to make it through one match before the opponent can reach anything vital. Not to mention it's easily replaceable.

Thanks for the compliment!

[daveimi]

Yeah that's a good idea. I didn't get that far when I was hammering my shell into shape over the back step. Ghetto engineering at it's best I really like your paint job though it's awesome. I've got as far as spraying my body with undercoat lol.