what is the best featherweight

[lewisantweight]

what is the best type of featherweight because i need a simple cheap idea and i will take onboard any idas.

[plargen]

Re: what is the best featherweight

you should watch some of the vids on youtube that should give you some ideas

[lewisantweight]

Re: what is the best featherweight

i have but i just cant make my mind up.

[harry hills]

Re: what is the best featherweight

360, inertia xl, ls4, explosion spring to my mind

[psycho_fling]

Re: what is the best featherweight

cough ** block of wood ** cough

[lewisantweight]

Re: what is the best featherweight

i have prices for normal and axe robots i also know what i need but i really want an outline of what i need and how to make other types of robots so i can make my conclusion

[plargen]

Re: what is the best featherweight

have a look through the build diarys there's a fair bit of info and pics

[lewisantweight]

Re: what is the best featherweight

kk

[roketrhino900]

Re: what is the best featherweight

Drills would be OK,
They'd masacre HDPE, but not all robots use that.
You'd need a really thick drill piece to avoid it snapping, at least 10mm

Axes don't do much damage, they'e just for spectacle. Armours too tough.

Flippers can knock electronics out, and OOTA robots, but can be very expensive.

Rambots are a good start, as a wedge shape to rive under robots, but it would take skill to flip a robot.

Discs are best and masacre all robots, but are only run at robochallenge, and the nearest to us is London in April.

Gripping weapons again are just for spectacle, and I'd imagine heavy.

Thrackbots have electronics inside the wheels, and have a bar as a weapon, like
stinger-http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Stinger
and chimera-theres a pic at the bottom-http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Team_Death
The saint- can't find a pic because roaming robots is down, try googling it.
Wilhelms scream could be considered a thrackbot-again can't find the pic

And full body spinners, in which the whole body moves round the base. Again, count as a disc, so can only be run at robochalllenge
http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Full-body_spinners

Using electricity and fluids etcetera is banned, so don't start building clever ideas without checking the rules first.

[Max]

Re: what is the best featherweight

Discs are best and masacre all robots, but are only run at robochallenge, and the nearest to us is London in April .

I thought the event was in Birmingham?

[roketrhino900]

Re: what is the best featherweight

Whoops, fixed that, thanks. The NEC in birmingham, isn't it?

edit- I can't fix it.

[psycho_fling]

Re: what is the best featherweight

yes NEC b'ham

[Team Invade]

Re: what is the best featherweight

The matter of 'the best featherweight' or 'the best weapon type' is totally down to opinion.

Personally, I would say that the flippers are the best, and has been shown due to the majority of UK championship results (and other competitions such as the tag team ). However, others have different opinions, as shown in previous posts.

Long story short, that's a matter to decide yourself. There is no set answer.

[lewisantweight]

Re: what is the best featherweight

i have decided to make a flipper or a thrack bot they both have weaknesses and strengths so i will watch vids on both of them to decide. should i use pneumatics or hydrolics for a flipper?

[lewisantweight]

Re: what is the best featherweight

A thwack bot was actually one of my original designs.