Skipdiving Robotics

[Albear]

nice and shiney! how you bolting it all together?

[Ocracoke]

Looks like it will be very tough and sturdy - what width and thickness is the box section being used in the photos?

[daveimi]

Lol thanks! The idea at the min is to drill top to bottom through the base and sides and use nuts and bolts to clamp the sides to the base plate. Currently trying to dream up a much neater solution.

The box section is 2mm wall thickness and is 50mm x 50mm cross section. Robot is 400mm square.

[Ocracoke]

Awesome!

TBH, Short of welding the panels to the box frame, I would think some quite meaty bolts, nuts and washers (M8/M10 type stuff) would be plenty to keep the panels to the frame. Makes it look quite industrial as well. As for the frame itself, 4x (or 8x) L shaped brackets on the interior so the panels sit flush on the box section (again, held in with nuts/bolts/washers)?

Did you decide on a weapon at all?

[TechAUmNu]

Btw to embed images from imgur just use the add image button in the editor and use the From URL tab. You need the link from imgur with the image name though like this: http://i.imgur.com/Ik9NXoG.jpg so I you can just slap .jpg on the end of the link and it should work.

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[daveimi]

Been looking at building just a rambot but not ruled out a hammer.

And thanku about the imgr stuff I'll have a go.

[daveimi]

Spent the last few weeks sizing up and re-cutting, it was way too big. Shortened to 400mm wide by 300mm long. Then spent another week cutting it all out again by hand.

[Ocracoke]

Looks neater than mine at the moment!

[Albear]

yessss! #1fan is stoked for the return of this thread! looks plenty robust, what are you thinking about putting in there to shift all that metal? if you need a name i want to put forward "Aluminion" lol

[daveimi]

I have some small motors and gearboxes I bought cheap a couple of months back but am worried they won't be torquey enough. I might try them, and if they're rubbish get some expensive ones.

[Danny B]

Looking good! Following on from Alex's suggestion, I'd like to suggest the name 'Silver Bullet'.

[Ocracoke]

Looking back at page 44 of the thread...

Erm it's just a ram bot without a wedge to see if it glances off spinners. Which is really what's built to fight. And I'm giving these a try randomly

https://www.technobotsonline.com/919...otor-50-1.html

with skate wheel hub adapters and wheels. Whole thing was like £30 or so delivered and just screws together stress free.

...then I am convinced that at least two of those 50:1 will move a basic wedge/rambot with the design you have and the material being used (I have one of these motors for my Beetleweight Shu! lifter motor).

If you wanted a bit more power in it though, either upping the voltage to near as 15v as possible (since the specifications suggest they'll go that high) or using four of them would be ideal in a one per 1 corner arrangement - they are light enough to have four in that design and still have a lot of weight allowance left over for armour and/or weaponry.

[daveimi]

Yeah I'm going to try them and see what they're like. I'm not quite sure what to expect. They don't have as much power as drill motors but then I never got drills running right anyway. If these don't work going to get some ampflows or build a heavyweight lol. Now I know I can cut accurately I want to give a heavy another go.

[daveimi]

New beetle taking shape - Putrid

Built from offcuts

[Ocracoke]

Loving the industrial look of it. I'd keep it looking like it is