Tanto 2

[Guest]

Looking at http://www.tantorobot.com/http://www.tantorobot.com/ this is one cool robot.

1 thing to add, I been wondering, where you will fit an active weapon to get it though robot wars rules IF series 8 goes ahead.

Did you know that South Today advertised the Brighton model world with the robots from robot wars appearing, who says the BBC (south) dont care for robot wars

[blazerbotics]

Tanto 2

how much did craig pay you to post this? for RW7 tanto had a little spinning disc on the front. as im assuming he built it for the live events, it dont need a weapon.

we were on the bench next to tanto at brighton (well we shared the table). craig spent most of the time building it there :P but he had problems with the drive gears not meshing correctly (or something like that anyway).

Im not going to say anything bad about tanto, as a certain score line may appear as it did at the weekend :sad:

[matty_haka]

Tanto 2

Lol at Alan. It looks nice. Perhaps the wedge might be a little steep. For some reason it reminds me of Tsunami without the weapon.

[fwsorg]

Tanto 2

The wedge is intentionally steep- you bounce off perpendicular to the wedge angle- so its more of a hitting thing. Incidentally, its a similar angle to storm 2, and youll notice that in many cases things bounce of the front of storm 2, instead of riding up the wedge.

[wenman]

Tanto 2

Oh boy is that 36V & ETEK motors I spy in the pics.

Thats an awfull lot of power but how can they get it down on to the floor with only two wheels.

Richard
Team Mayhem

[matty_haka]

Tanto 2

They lift it up onto a trolley and lower it down gently!

[craig_anto]

Tanto 2

wow Ive got a thread!
its brand new as far as I know its the first heavyweight built to FRA rules. No stupid active weapon rule. there isnt a weapon or one planned either, Im building it to be stronger Ive just bought a piece of titanium 0.550 thick to cover the front.
yes its 36v in the pic but thats its live event set up the fighting or all out set up is 48v, how to get that on the floor? well we have ideas.
Matty were you at brighton? obviously missed us throwning the robot out of the arena.
as for brighton yes we had problems with gearing down to a miss engineering. At least Im not using the robots r us in it anymore

[maddox]

Tanto 2

Craig, 2 things.. your drive, my FP technology...

If I can build a Heavyweight class FP system inside 5 kg, Im sure the weight will allow it inside Tanto2.

[Guest]

Tanto 2

Hmmm, was this why Craig bought the 140*140 ram you hade for sale earlier?

[Guest]

Tanto 2

But as Tanto only has two wheels, whats stopping the nose from lifting off the ground when it accelerates?

[fwsorg]

Tanto 2

Mario- God knows Ive tried to persuade him

Christian- the 140 x 140 is for something different.

Christian- Electronics

[Guest]

Tanto 2

Traction control?

[fwsorg]

Tanto 2

We are toying with traction control, but that doesnt really help keep the nose on the ground. In the speedos which are being developed, theres an accelerometer to measure tilt, and so apply power so as to keep the nose on the ground. we may however want to nose to rise a couple of inches up in the air, so we can make full use of the spikes on the front of the wedge, and the accelerometer will allow us to do that too. Its anaologous to adjusting the gain on your gyro- we should be able to adjust the tilt control.

[storm]

Tanto 2

Fantastic idea guys

....so many bits to go wrong

[jamesb]

Tanto 2

oh I love traction control, so much wasted power and grip......

anyone know what slip angles are?
nope.
I love traction control (on otherpeoples machines)