2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

[Eventorizon]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

How are the robots weighed on the day? I was going to get a set of fishing scales but to what accuracy do they need to be? To the nearest gram seems overkill but to the nearest 50g seems to far out.

[PJ-27]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

I we have 5g leverage (I believe), but the scales are very accurate (3 decimal places at Kgs?)
We used the ol' weigh our selves, then us with the robot technique last year and were grams off the limit. That was more luck though.......

[Eventorizon]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Thats + 0.035%! I need to find some more accurate scales!

[ The calculation... (0.005/13.6)x100=0.0367 ]

[PJ-27]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Not being an arse, but to avoid arguments since we have a crushing robot this year.....

Pinning
It is not permitted to hold or restrain an opponent for more than 30 seconds, for example, where a hydraulic crushing weapon grips its opponent, or one robot pins its opponent to arena side or floor, to do so is instant disqualification. If two or more robots become entangled or a crushing or gripping weapon is employed and becomes trapped within another robot, then the competitors should make the timekeeper aware, the fight should be stopped and the robots separated by the safest means. The fight will then be judged to the point where the robots became trapped.

[xtreme]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Im 99.99% sure im going to be running Flow on low pressure just to keep it more relaible. It would be nice to have the impressive flipping power but I dont want to be fixing the robot after every fight. It should still be a semi decent flipper even on low pressure.

[psycho_fling]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Block of wood is ready fro some white boards

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[psycho_fling]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

and before anyone mentions it yes it will have top armour on

[cliveb]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

will it have any top armour on?

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Judging by the rest of the robot, the top armour will probably be re-inforced bulletproof kevlar interwoven with hardox strands. Wood's hard to come by these days.

[robotwars]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Will it have any top armour ???

[psycho_fling]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

now i look at it again i think theres something missing from the picture :P

[xtreme]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

What does block of wood weigh?

[psycho_fling]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

i will check today

[psycho_fling]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

weighs 8.3kg

[Anttazz]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Still going with the bang-bang system I see? Your driving was bad enough last year with full proportionate control