Spinners and arena walls

[kodster]

Spinners and arena walls

Shame. :sad:

Maybe they could make multiple layers of 1cm thick Lexan that can be placed 5cm apart...

Unless its too expensive.

[typhoon_driver]

Spinners and arena walls

that would be exceptionally expensive plus it would over complicate the arena construction before an event

[kodster]

Spinners and arena walls

Bugger.

Any other ideas?

[grant_ploughbot]

Spinners and arena walls

do as above stated by myself and mario. Have lots of FLEX!!!!
Im not at all suprised that polycarb shattered

[jamesb]

Spinners and arena walls

or use transparent aluminum.....



(any trekkie will get that one)

[kronic]

Spinners and arena walls

lol, that would do it

[maddox]

Spinners and arena walls

James, youre going to laugh, but atm they are working on transparant aluminium.
Mother nature has shown the way. Saphire.

[typhoon_driver]

Spinners and arena walls

Somehow I have a feeling it will take a little bit of time before we see it on arena walls

[geeza]

Spinners and arena walls

I assume they are developing it in San Fransisco.

[kronic]

Spinners and arena walls

I think its being developed for whale tanks or something

[big_nipper]

Spinners and arena walls

by Plexicorp, allthough if you want some you have to talk into the mouse.

[craig_colliass]

Spinners and arena walls

I don€™t know much about the qualities of poly but 2 ideas come to mind
1/ the poly could be hung from the top, on cables like an old pub sign, with a tether at the bottom. This way big lumps would make the poly swing and dissipate some of the energy. The plates could overlap!
2/ could you fit in front of the poly between the robot and the poly a white catch net I remember these being fitted to some public buildings when the IRA were bombing, they were weighted at the bottom in the event of an explosion they would stop pieces of glass cutting people in the building.
I hope this may help.

[geeza]

Spinners and arena walls

Both XFM and Robots Live employ the hanging method of mounting polcarb. Roaming robots also have an amount of flex in the polycarb to absorb impacts.

The net idea is fine as long as it doesnt impede the audiences view.

[craig_colliass]

Spinners and arena walls

When I was at the Aylesbury meeting the poly was held on the sides supported by posts not the top. But this may not be normal perhaps this is only for that show.
With regards to the net curtains I was thinking about fine fishing net nylon with holes about 6mm or so any parts smaller the poly would stop anyway (the blade that broke the poly was several cm long) with regards to visibility it€™s the old one-way mirror trick if the light is stronger inside than the light outside the arena then the curtain will be quite see-through. There would have to be a gap of about 800mm between the curtain and the poly to give room for the flying bits to slow down before it hits the poly. Perhaps we need to do some tests.

[teammad]

Spinners and arena walls

Craig,

As ed says, the poly on the Robots Live arena hangs from a trussing frame, see pic http://www.robotslive.co.uk/arena_burgs1.jpghttp://www.robotslive.co.uk/arena_burgs1.jpg

Its hard to tell in the photo, but each sheet of poly has two steel black hucks that hang from the trussing.