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Re: How could I Improve pt 2
hello CPA23 aka A Wafer Thin Mint, feel welcome! its good to see we still get newcomers these days, may I ask how you found this place?
As for your first attempt, not bad and fairly original, lets see, for starters I think the description of the shape could be clearer Truncated Pyramid with wedge at front, a truncated pyramid I understand, but by definition a pyramid has wedges on all 4 (I take it its a 4 sided pyramid?) sides, so with wedge at front confuses me.
Also the dimensions, while they are far from unrealistic, I get the feeling this bot could be lower, as it is its nearly a cube, then again the height may be due to the drum resting on top, but even then I get the feeling its fairly high.
Now for the weapon, the Warrior SKF flipper is a complicated weapon and nice to see you use it. You have to consider how the weapon works though and thereby how to alter it, like by using a vertical drum instead of a horizontal disc. The flipper of Warrior has a... metal thing under it somwhere, that can be lowered so its touched by the teeth of the disc. When the disc hits it, the flipper can do nothing but go up and because of their different movements (vertical/horizontal) they merely nudge each other and both continue their own path. If you'd use this technique with a vertical flipper, I think you'd rip your own flipper off. Id like to point you to Joey's robot The Hurting, first post on the following site: http://strickenone.proboards.com/index. ... thread=492 . In this complex but clever robot a vertical flywheel powers a flipper.
I can see this design doing well with some minor tweakings, good job
hello CPA23 aka A Wafer Thin Mint, feel welcome! its good to see we still get newcomers these days, may I ask how you found this place?
As for your first attempt, not bad and fairly original, lets see, for starters I think the description of the shape could be clearer Truncated Pyramid with wedge at front, a truncated pyramid I understand, but by definition a pyramid has wedges on all 4 (I take it its a 4 sided pyramid?) sides, so with wedge at front confuses me.
Also the dimensions, while they are far from unrealistic, I get the feeling this bot could be lower, as it is its nearly a cube, then again the height may be due to the drum resting on top, but even then I get the feeling its fairly high.
Now for the weapon, the Warrior SKF flipper is a complicated weapon and nice to see you use it. You have to consider how the weapon works though and thereby how to alter it, like by using a vertical drum instead of a horizontal disc. The flipper of Warrior has a... metal thing under it somwhere, that can be lowered so its touched by the teeth of the disc. When the disc hits it, the flipper can do nothing but go up and because of their different movements (vertical/horizontal) they merely nudge each other and both continue their own path. If you'd use this technique with a vertical flipper, I think you'd rip your own flipper off. Id like to point you to Joey's robot The Hurting, first post on the following site: http://strickenone.proboards.com/index. ... thread=492 . In this complex but clever robot a vertical flywheel powers a flipper.
I can see this design doing well with some minor tweakings, good job
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