Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

[joey_picus]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

...so you won't be letting me compete at what would be a perfectly timed first event for me, when I had a team mate lined up and had virtually started planning my summer around it, purely because I'm not that interested in the drag racing and do not have the resources or skill to build one as well as building the robot?

[rob]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

@ big_nipper.

Hi Mark,

The angle grinder you linked to is 230v i would that be ok with the 110v supply at the event?
Meaning would it just run a little slower or do anything else need to be done.

I have a cheap angle grinder to enter the event with , so how do you extend the axle to the both sides of the gearbox?

Thanks,
ROB....

[grant_ploughbot]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

The 110v supply it states will be a typo - i will get silverline to sort that asap as it is running 240v 13A supply to each lane.

[rob]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

Hi Grant,

Would it be the blue, round, three pin plug like a caravan hookup i need to buy?
Cheers,
ROB....

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

Hi Rob,

I think it this one:

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/sear ... rm=531-431

Its mentioned in the rules page for the drag racers on the Robochallenge website. Its to allow the connection to simply get pulled apart when the length of the power cord is exceeded, causing the dragster to stop at the end

[grant_ploughbot]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

Thats the one jamie. I believe silverline may be supplying these, although thats one of the many loose ends we need to agree on and get tied up before i can say anything for sure

[ady]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

this is an interesting debate lol, can see both sides, it may only be £16 for a angle grinder and a bit of frame, but when we build something we want it to be good and competitive so i think you would need to spend a bit more than that.
also remember peeps that we all dont have nice machining equipment at our disposal, or cash readily available to knock something together, for someone still at school £20 is a few weeks pocket money! that he might be saving as hard as he can to buy his robot bits needed for his event, but also we are all tightning our belts in this difficult time

i can understand trying to improve the popularity of tool racing, i will build one just to come to your event (but is that the right way of thinking?)
perhaps i will enjoy it and find it a bit of fun, but i still dont find it appealing enough to want to take it seriously, just as a laff.
i just wonder if all that will happen is that a load will turn up, then chuck them at the back of the garage after to gather dust.
but for me, as i want to fight a full combat event of robochallenges it is a small sacrifice, i will not be putting any effort into it though tbh, just any old bits i find lying around lol.

would it help to wave the fee for under 16's? i dont know.

[blazerbotics]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

Seeing as i was going to build one anyway it doesnt effect me that much, Quick question do we have to enter one dragster per team or per robot? I can see why people are abit upset, especially after spending alot of time building a robot then having to build a dragster, maybe offer other incentives to build a dragster, such as no/lower entry fee. My concern is for the newer/younger teams, as they now have to start playing with very powerful tools (anybody who has had a 9inch grinder snatch on them will know what i mean) plus the fact that you're now playing with 240v does raise a few concerns. But i can understand your reasons and i'll be waiting at the start line, got a few bits lying around that could be put to good use.

[team_orr]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

im all for promoting dragsters (they look fun and cool! ) but making it a rule that we HAVE to make a dragster is a bit much...plus my dad wont let me play with angle grinders

for example:

ok, im 12 years old,iv been watching robot wars since i was a toddler! i have recently made a few robots using most of my saved up funds, and am waiting eagerly to enter a event close to me...i read that there is a spinner tournament, just like robot wars...GREAT! then i read there is a £4000 prize fund...GREAT! then i read we have to make something that i have only briefly heard of and have no understanding of whatsoever apart from they run down a wooden track and are made out of tools

i dont yet have the knowledge/time/money/facility's to build these things...you can understand i am a bit disappointed because this means i cant go i guess there will be other events but i was really looking forward to this

jack

[grant_ploughbot]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

The ruling to state that you have to enter a dragster is not something that we have come up with.
Silverline have stated this, and they are paying for the hall for the arena to go in to do so.

1 dragster per team is perfectly fine, and I understand your points of view. Even just a belt sander with abit of wood strapped to the side to make it go in a straight line is perfectly fine. No moddification of the actual power tool is needed, no expensive equiptment is needed.

So far the winning dragster is only using very cheap angle grinders, infact almost everyone is. The more expensive hand tools are not worth buying, the cheap versions dont lack in speed and power, only quality (whiuch isnt really needed for this application )
I believe the gadget show will also be there filming and have an entry in the drag racing

[rob]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

A few dodgy dragsters water & electric, only in america but looks fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLmsz...eature=related

[team_orr]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

hmm....well iv got an idea in my head now of what i should be doing...just dont expect it to be really hi-tec

jack

[joey_picus]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

...fine then. I assume that's a no seeing as people appear to have forgotten that I asked something :P

I'm in no way happy about this considering how much I was looking forward to it - I actually feel like I've been punched hard in the chest - but if Andy can make it I shall cobble together the world's worst drag racer to satisfy the requirements for our team and make that only for the sake of entering the part of the event I wish to enter. If my teammate can't make it then I'm not going to attend, which is extremely disheartening but I guess I'll have to plan for Reading or any other events that may crop up.

[graeme]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

Maplin sells 600w 115mm angle grinders for £12.99 online and the have more than 50 in stock , im going to use 2 of them.

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

Joey, you'll have competition for the world's worst dragster

My initial plan (not sure how much this will change over summer) is to take one of these:
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/store ... elt+Sander

and bolt a couple of these to it:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4 ... AA280_.jpg

modify the power cable with the required plug and bada-bing bada-boom, the worlds worst dragster

It'd be really good to see you and AJ at the event, so hopefully if the pair of you can make something like ^that^ you should be fine (then we'll kick your asses at tag-team :twisted: )