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Well, with the retirement of Ricochet a new robot must take it's place, and since I still can't afford the stupid money needed for Titan Jr, I'm using the bits I have already for a competitive rammer with some interesting features.
First off, I already have the innards:
For those who don't know the specs, the drive is a pair of genuine Speed 900s in a Mario made, motor-in-wheel 7:1 gearbox. The wheels are 120mm diameter, 50mm wide with dirt bike tyre. Running the motors on 6S gives a top speed of 26mph, Skyfall was always too fast and hard to control, but that's how I liked it hence I decided against the gyro. Driven as ever by a pair of BotBitz 85A ESCs, the cheapest option for Speed 900s!
Design is so far an internal Hardox structure with 10mm HDPE bolted on, and an external Hardox frame:
The design is to have multiple bolt-on frames, each with different front ends. The two shown are the standard wedge and the anti-flipper (Beauty) spikes, designed mainly to take advantage of Beauty's open sides in order to ram it all over.
Another idea I had was that a beefy servo can be used to raise and lower a skid in the back, a bit like Dantomkia, so that it can push the front to the ground most of the time, but can allow it to raise up if needed, such as if the spikes get into raised areas of exposed armour (Beauty).
Thoughts
?
First off, I already have the innards:
For those who don't know the specs, the drive is a pair of genuine Speed 900s in a Mario made, motor-in-wheel 7:1 gearbox. The wheels are 120mm diameter, 50mm wide with dirt bike tyre. Running the motors on 6S gives a top speed of 26mph, Skyfall was always too fast and hard to control, but that's how I liked it hence I decided against the gyro. Driven as ever by a pair of BotBitz 85A ESCs, the cheapest option for Speed 900s!
Design is so far an internal Hardox structure with 10mm HDPE bolted on, and an external Hardox frame:
The design is to have multiple bolt-on frames, each with different front ends. The two shown are the standard wedge and the anti-flipper (Beauty) spikes, designed mainly to take advantage of Beauty's open sides in order to ram it all over.
Another idea I had was that a beefy servo can be used to raise and lower a skid in the back, a bit like Dantomkia, so that it can push the front to the ground most of the time, but can allow it to raise up if needed, such as if the spikes get into raised areas of exposed armour (Beauty).
Thoughts
?
. Could easily bump it up to 4mm, maybe even 5mm for the front of the wedge. Hoping to have this one done to run alongside Flow at Newcastle for the Northern Tour, should make for some fun fights.
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