All of my robot orientated questions go here!

[ewan]

Re: All of my robot orientated questions go here!

Robochallenge standard range: http://web.me.com/robochallenge/Robo_Ch ... nical.html

You'll have to contact them about 63mm ones, I'm pretty sure they used to stock that size, but adding nuts would have to be to-order.

[Ellis]

Re: All of my robot orientated questions go here!

Ok. Well as I said I'll do some research and fiddle with new designs before making any final decisions.

Quick question for the veterans - how flat really are arena floors? I mean, if I had just ~2mm ground clearance, would I have problems? Thanks.

Ellis

[joey_picus]

Re: All of my robot orientated questions go here!

Quick answer: Not very flat :P I believe the Robochallenge arena is a good deal flatter than the RL/RR ones, but you're still going to have a lot of issues with 2mm clearance as it only takes a small dent or rip or bit of debris to beach you. The RL/RR arena floors...aren't flat :P you really need at least 10mm of clearance to evade, among other things, bits of the top of the arena floor separating and floating around loose, the pit and flipper protruding slightly, uneven joins after two days' fighting, bits of other robots, tears and dents where the heavyweights have fought and dropped on the floor from a great height, and all sorts of other problems.

[team_orr]

Re: All of my robot orientated questions go here!

Yeah you need a higher ground clearance, great example of this was the Uk featherweight champs the other day, in the final explosion got beached on the floor allowing Little flipper to get them OOTA and win the champs

[Ellis]

Re: All of my robot orientated questions go here!

Well after some messing around in Sketchup I've replaced the 52mm wheels with 63mm ones, and mounted one of the 200W scooter motors I have as a potential axe weapon motor. Take a look.

http://storage.darkdemon.org/16909/1303336407.png
http://storage.darkdemon.org/16909/1303336542.png

And with some really shoddy armour... stuff.

http://storage.darkdemon.org/16909/1303336577.png
http://storage.darkdemon.org/16909/1303336631.png

I really like the idea of an axe, just not sure if it'll all fit in the weight limit and if the 200W scooter motor is quite punchy enough - opinions?

Oh and the ground clearance is about 6mm there, in real life if this were built I'd try for a few more mm.