How could I Improve pt 2

[Guest]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

Hammer & Nails looks good to me Lian, but if you want to revamp it I'd remove one of the axes, personally I don't see the need for 2

And I'd keep Curse of the Deep just for that nice CAD, it'll probably do better over here than it did on ARC

And if anyone wouldn't mind looking at Vertigo here, been a while since I wrote out FRA-style stats and I think the pneumatics in particular may be off....




VERTIGO

BODY SHAPE: Box with 60* wedge at front and angled rear ala Tornado. The sides are sloped at 45*

WEIGHT: 100kg

DIMENSIONS (L X W X H): 80cm x 75cm x 20cm

COLOUR: See CAD

LOCOMOTION: 4 x internal wheels, made of aluminium with unrethane tyres. Each is exposed from the top and bottom and is 22cm in diameter

GROUND CLEARANCE: 0 at the wedge, 8mm at sides and 10mm at rear

DRIVE MOTORS: 2 x LEMCO-130 lynch motors running @ 48v

DRIVE BATTERIES: 4 x NiCad battlepacks at 12v in series

SPEED: 18mph

TURNING CIRCLE: 0 metres

BODY ARMOUR: 4mm hardox monoque, flipper/top panel is
6mm.

CHASSIS: 4mm hardox monocoque. The removable panel is the top one.

WEAPON 1: The whole top panel is a full pressure flipper, powered by a 100mm ram @ 725psi from a 3kg co2 bottle, providing plenty of flips and a lot of power, similar power in fact to the modern Kronic the Wedgehog.

SRIMECH: The robot is invertible, but the flipper can be used to right it if needs be.

STRENGTHS: Powerful weaponry, tough armour

THEME SONG: Bodies by Drowning Pool

[joey_picus]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

It's spelt 'monocoque' ;P but other than that I can't see any real problems* with it, nice work the same goes for the improved Drumblebee (which I can't be bothered to make a second post about, heh)

*having had a second glance I have noticed that you're lacking a bit in battery power - you probably do have enough weight to change to a pair of (or even three) 48v packs in parallel to give more capacity, so that won't be an issue

[Guest]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

I spelt it wrong then right! *facepalm*

Thanks Joey, that shall be changed

[death robotics]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

[quote=super_sporty]Hammer & Nails looks good to me Lian, but if you want to revamp it I'd remove one of the axes, personally I don't see the need for 2

And I'd keep Curse of the Deep just for that nice CAD, it'll probably do better over here than it did on ARC
[quote]

Hammer and nails i think does need a rebuild and i think Curse of the Deep should lose a couple of kg due to the fact
SHW get almost no attention really, i dont want my bots to sit there gathering dust

Also the full body flipper has arrived, with more detailed flipper stats

Empty Inside
Shape: Storm 2, a box with wedges on the front and sides, with a rounded back
Colour: Camo, with shades of red
Dimensions: Height 25cm Width: 65cm Length: 105cm
Drive: 2x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 5x 3000mAh NiCad Battlepacks.
Locomotion: 2 Storm 2 style wheels
Armour: 6mm titanium
Speed: 12mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm all over thanks to Titanium skirting, 5mm with out though
Weapon:An Achilles style rear-hinged flipper,which is attached from the back and goes all the way down the front to the bottom of the wedge. powered by a 1000pi 2.5kg C02 tank, with 2 70mm bore 300mm stroke rams which power the flipper. Can flip up to 300kg and can lift up to 400kg, much like Achilles itself, it is a full body flipper
Scrimech: The flipper of course
Strength: Powerful weapon
Weakness: Dunno
BIO: Another new design for 2011
Win/loss ratio: N/A
rated I for: This bot is in the hands of an Idiot

[Guest]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

Empty Inside

^ EMO!!!!!! :P jks

Shape: Storm 2, a box with wedges on the front and sides, with a rounded back
Colour: Camo, with shades of red
Dimensions: Height 25cm Width: 65cm Length: 105cm

^ All good

Drive: 2x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 5x 3000mAh NiCad Battlepacks.

^ This is fine, I'm not sure if you need that many batteries but I'm sure that's enough power

Locomotion: 2 Storm 2 style wheels

^ Again this should be ok if you're thinking of a Merlin-esque set-up with 2 wheels at the front, I'd make that clear in the stats though.

Armour: 6mm titanium
Speed: 12mph

^ This is fine

Ground Clearance: 0mm all over thanks to Titanium skirting, 5mm with out though

^ You need to state the ground clearance behind the skirts, and also say where the skirts are, which you have done but I'm not sure you mean there's a skirt on the front and back as well?

Weapon:An Achilles style rear-hinged flipper,which is attached from the back and goes all the way down the front to the bottom of the wedge. powered by a 1000pi 2.5kg C02 tank, with 2 70mm bore 300mm stroke rams which power the flipper. Can flip up to 300kg and can lift up to 400kg, much like Achilles itself, it is a full body flipper

^ Seems fine apart from the last sentence; 1) I'm sure it's more powerful than you've stated and 2) Specify full body flipper, is it just the top panel or the whole shell?

Otherwise nice design Lian

As for Hammer & Nails and Curse of the Deep, it's up to you of course, why do you think H&N needs a rebuild though? and I'd keep a SHW around, tournaments crop up here and there and it's always handy to have one

[death robotics]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

Haha lewis

The name came from one of my favourite songs. and also another idea the the electronics would be attacched to the
weapon so when it fired, axes could not hit anything inside, hence the name and also ditch the idea cos it was impractical

[death robotics]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

Ok ive resorted the stats

Empty Inside
Shape: Storm 2, a box with wedges on the front and sides, with a rounded back
Colour: Camo, with shades of red
Dimensions: Height 25cm Width: 65cm Length: 105cm
Drive: 2x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 5x 3000mAh NiCad Battlepacks.
Locomotion: 2 Storm 2 style wheels, like Merlin, are positioned at the front
Armour: 6mm titanium
Speed: 12mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm, under the flipper and 0mm elsewhere except the back thanks to Titanium skirting, 5mm with out skirts though
Weapon:An Achilles style rear-hinged flipper,which is attached from the back and goes all the way down the front to the bottom of the wedge. powered by a 1000pi 2.5kg C02 tank, with 2 70mm bore 300mm stroke rams which power the flipper. Can flip up to 300kg and can lift up to 400kg, much like Achilles itself, it is a full body flipper, which means that the front wedge and the top, fire towards the back of the robot, the sides do not flip up though
Scrimech: The flipper of course
Strength: Powerful weapon
Weakness: Dunno
BIO: Another new design for 2011
Win/loss ratio: N/A
rated I for: This bot is in the hands of an Idiot

Is that better?

[daliad100]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

Vertical ring spinner of doom

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/pho...eat=directlink

I'm too lazy to redo the cad but it will look sort of similar to the original design but with pointy things to protect the wheels a bit, some small wedges to get under things better and some weight reducing slots and holes in the main tube that emit an eeirie green glow courtesy of green leds.

Name: Still needs one, any suggestions please

Weight: 100kg

Shape: S3 (Cylinder with a massive vertical disc)

Dimensions (LxWxH): 98cm x 120 cm x 88cm

Colour: Black ring, lime green teeth and a pale green main body

Drive: 2 * S28-400 magmotors on a 7.5:1 ratio at 33V with 10 * 10 cell A123 ANR26650M1 battery packs

Locomotion: 2* 15cm diameter 10cm wide weldalite hubbed wheels covered in urethane rubber

Armour: 5mm weldalite (aluminium alloy) nearly everywhere but 10mm on the ring supports and strategic shockproofing to prevent it from breaking itself.

Speed: 14mph

Ground Clearance: 0mm at the wedges, 5mm elsewhere.

Turning Circle: 0 cm

Weapon: 30kg vertical spinning ring. 15kg 70cm diameter weldalite ring with 3*5 kg blunt hardox teeth that also point inside the ring to give anything that goes inside the ring a good whack. Powered by dual 2230-725 neumotors it has a max spinning speed of 3000rpm kicking out 175kJ.

[joey_picus]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

Lian: CO2 doesn't work at 1000psi, it becomes a liquid at a point (dependent on temperature) between 700 and 800psi, and can't be brought any higher - the solution to this is either to make the flipper just 'full pressure CO2' or if you want 1000psi you'll have to run on nitrogen, which to complicate things is measured by pressure and volume and not weight ;P

Otherwise the robot looks alright to me.

Jordan: The only problems at all with that are a) they're not called S28-400s any more, they're A28-400s due to the production being taken over by Ampflow at some point in 2010 (sneaky little motors...)

and b) that's a picture of Frustum, heh :P

Otherwise it looks alright, I'll trust you on the Weldalite structure since 10mm seems a bit thin to support a full 175kJ hit, but then I suppose once you've hit someone with that sort of energy self damage doesn't matter much since then you can repair it before the next round

I am terrible with names of late, perhaps follow with the song titles idea?

[death robotics]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

Ok hopefully its the final version now

Empty Inside
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Storm 2, a box with wedges on the front and sides, with a rounded back
Colour: Camo, with shades of red
Dimensions: Height 25cm Width: 65cm Length: 105cm
Drive: 2x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 5x 3000mAh NiCad Battlepacks.
Locomotion: 2 Storm 2 style wheels, like Merlin, are positioned at the front
Armour: 6mm titanium
Speed: 12mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm, under the flipper and 0mm elsewhere except the back thanks to Titanium skirting, 5mm with out skirts though
Weapon:An Achilles style rear-hinged flipper,which is attached from the back and goes all the way down the front to the bottom of the wedge. powered by a 750pi 2.5kg C02 tank, with 2 70mm bore 300mm stroke rams which power the flipper. Can flip up to 300kg and can lift up to 400kg, much like Achilles itself, it is a full body flipper, which means that the front wedge and the top, fire towards the back of the robot, the sides do not flip up though
Scrimech: The flipper of course
Strength: Powerful weapon
Weakness: Dunno
BIO: Another new design for 2011
Win/loss ratio: N/A
rated I for: This bot is in the hands of an Idiot


Hopefully its all ready to go

[daliad100]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

Weldalite is an alloy of aluminium that is about twice as strong as some of the aircraft grade aluminiums and around that of some stainless steels.

Although I have removed more weight from the design than I have added with the weight holes I can pretty easily thicken up the disc supports if need be and it needs a redesign to make it look more scary.

I'm thinking of calling it Shego after the character from the awesome show, Kim Possible due to them both being green, black and very destructive.

[death robotics]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

Just thought id ask again, ive posted the re-stat 2 comments above this one, just wondering if its now got the green
light and ready to go

EDIT: 700th post, im catching up to most of the fanfic guys :P

[joey_picus]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

No issues that I can see Lian, nope

[death robotics]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

Yay, its now sorted, just wanted to make sure

My team seems to be gettin better this year. Watch out lads!!! (Obivously a figure of speech i suck)

[kodster]

Re: How could I Improve pt 2

lads, I pose a question to thee...

Would a hydraulic crushing/lifting system be feasible? I would like to have a system that combines horizontal pincers with a lifting arm, and not precisely in the same way Big Nipper has done.