Tilly 101

[mattsdragons]

anyone know what happened to it as it looks like a dam cool bot!

[jonny]

Re: Tilly 101

got a picture of it? i can't remember most of the tillys.

[mattsdragons]

Re: Tilly 101

cant remember were i saw it but it was round, kinda looked like 2 ufo's stuck to eachother

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Tilly 101

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Aww, young li'l Shane
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[jonny]

Re: Tilly 101

Wow that is cool

[mattsdragons]

Re: Tilly 101

looks like a ring spinner?

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Tilly 101

Yeah, think it was just driven by a couple of electric motors through friction-drive.

EDIT: As for what happened to it, someone from the team will probably be able to clarify. But it was a heavyweight spinner and those pictures were from the 2006 UK champs, which was the last event that accommodated HW spinners. So it'll probably have been raided for bits since then.

[razerdave]

Re: Tilly 101

One of the ring blades made for Tilly 101 looked like a gigantic saw. This has now been cut into 2 bits and its the spikey backbone bit on Major Damage now

[dragonmaster]

Re: Tilly 101

This

[Eventorizon]

Re: Tilly 101

Darn it, its been done! I wanted to build a similar design for my next featherweight! And I thought it would be a unique robot. Oh well, it seems everything really is a remix.

[mattsdragons]

Re: Tilly 101

How did that disk system work? Looks fantastic and something worth replicating but looks very hard

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Tilly 101

Friction-drive as far as I know. A couple of electric motors -> attach wheels -> touch wheels onto rim of spinning disc -> energise motors = spinning disc.
Probably not too hard to put into practice.

[jonny]

Re: Tilly 101

Yup

[mattsdragons]

Re: Tilly 101

Wonder if that could be converted to a FW design?

Bet someone with more skills than me could do somethig like that

[Ellis]

Re: Tilly 101

You'd have to have some very high rpm motors to make it spin anything like as fast as modern FW weapons, as the reduction of small wheels onto the rim of a disc would be huge. Although less classy perhaps, I think a fullbody would be more effective.

Edit: that's assuming keeping to friction drive. With a more conventional transfer system I don't see why it wouldn't work well.