Armour ideas / materials

[Jon Smith]

Basic concept.jpg

[Jon Smith]

That is the basic shape and active weaponry will be a later attachment and the brackets will be mounted under the "Skirt". The "skirt" is a bracket and flap system to stop flippers getting under the robot to prevent flipping. you can also see a tool free access panel at the back. I will make it small as it only needs to be big enough to disconnect the battery connector. Anyway there you go and remember this is just a concept.

[maddox10]

Good armor shape, shallow angle glacis all around, but good luck fitting everything in there. A pyramid is a bad shape concerning volume.

Also, in an arena dominated by flippers (sorry for that) that get under anything, the machine you show doesn't have any upside down driving capacity, nor a selfrighter. Thats rather a pity.

[Jon Smith]

Don't worry I have plans for self righter. I believe I will need to use actuators however fun pneumatic robot launchers are I don't really want to blow my budget.

[Jon Smith]

I was thinking of placing a round "Roll cage" bar on each side and have the actuator roll the robot sideways back onto its wheels let me just draw out what I'm thinking on CAD one sec

[plargen]

is that a drum spinner i see on the front as there arnt any arenas that can take HW spinners

[Eventorizon]

You wont be allowed to use that drum thing on the front. There are no spinners allowed in any heavyweight arena in the UK. Featherweights are the only class that can use spinners.

[Jon Smith]

robot 3#.jpg

[typhoon_driver]

roll bars and cages don't work

[Jon Smith]

Something a bit like that the thing poking out of the top is a actuator pushing the robot to roll back over

[Jon Smith]

Any reason why they don't work?

[Jon Smith]

One error with the cage is that the apex of the circle is meant to be lower the actual top of the pyramid

[typhoon_driver]

Tried them on a feather years ago. Getting them to reliably work was a no no. Worked around 50% of the time if you were lucky. Too easy for another machine to pin you against the wall.

And yes spinning weapons are not allowed in heavyweights as the arenas can't contain them. If you want a spinner you are building a featherweight as only the robochallenge arena can contain them which is a feather only arena.

[Jon Smith]

Oh Yes I realised my oversight in the rule book and will no longer be using a spinner I have alternative arrangements for weaponry

[Jon Smith]

robot 3#S.jpg