Team Death gets its first round win since 1998 and its first Overall
Win since Ever ! :D
Thankyou to Ian,Alex and the team for great end to Robotic year.
We played football and mainly Alex...
Bought some Masda RX8 flywheels on ebay. 6kg each and has a bolt hole pattern at the edge so I can add extra plates and change the weight and a keyway on the bore.
Today's progress: bolted the chassis together, and checked everything for fit. Still a long list of things to do, including wedding the wedge parts together, turning down and weight saving the gear...
I am looking for a large flywheel to test my escs on inertial loads. Needs to be pretty heavy maybe 20kg and have a centre hole.
Obviously I could just get kcut to cut some steel plate into a...
Thanks Robert, good luck with your build. As for crossing paths I don't know I've limited range of travel so a lot of events are a little out of my reach.
Looks good, I will have my Mark 2 robot ready early next year and hope to meet you at an event! :) My first attempt came in at 12kg and the improvements take it to the weight limit.
Hey Steve,
Yours has been finished and sent out, should arrive tomorrow or Thursday.
Delivery times can vary as all of these are made to order and put in a queue during production.
Hey buddy,
How close do you reckon you are to getting these sent out? Sorry to bug, just wondering if there was a rough estimate on the delivery time :)
Thanks in advance dude :)
In the end it was more worth while retiring CSB and building a new version. Here is a preview of the CAD for Coolspeedbot 2.0. Going to try brushless drive and this will feature interchangeable...
Despite having run Something Completely Different (SCD) at four Beetleweight events in 2018, I never did write up a build diary for it. Given it's 'retired', it makes sense to do a bit of a write up...
I haven't had time to design a whole new robot due to work commitments but I did get some help from my brother to re-design the top and bottom panels to be wider and not very slightly skewed...
Are u still selling the Disc?
Im building my first ever featerweight robot and i want to make a spinner without machining any part.
This disc could be a good edition to my robot.
I'm not on...
Cheers for the advice guys :)(apologies for late response). Sounds to me then that full on 5s power could be difficult to drive anyway so I probs will change the trim settings. I’ll leave enough...
Hello Roboteers,
Robodojo are pleased to announce the official Robodojo Sportsman Class rules for 2019!
The rules can be found here on Google Documents:...
Our Christmas social Sunday 16th December 12pm to 4pm, KB Technologies LS25 6NS
The Ant arena will be available for whiteboards and Beetle testing.
Lots of fun and games for Feathers and Beetles...
Looks Fantastic! A lot of builders have been considering a sawbot (me included) due to Battlebots success. Id be greatly interested to see how this one comes out and performs.
It seems that I've built one too many Featherweights over the last two years I've been building; now in to build number four, and this time, something that's not an axe, but something that's going to...
9mph should be quick enough. Keep in mind at live events you'll be thrown in with at least 15 other bots (sometimes more than twice that) so you there will always be an opponent less than 4 feet away.
Hi Matt. You definitely need a lipo bag. Getting knocked about in battle can damage lipos internally & cause them to catch fire when they are recharged. I've competed at 5 live events this year &...
Hey Eoin. Just wanna say Barrog did phenomenally well, especially for a relative newcomer & was definitely one of the bots I was rooting for. It was a shame that the one fight that DB12 beat you was...
my bot was running on 4s mainly at cheltenham and portsmouth, and throughtout the testing phases between, all were ok. I went to 5s on 2 fights at cheltenham, and yes there was an obvious increase of...
POST-EVENT THOUGHTS
All things said and done I was pretty happy with how well Barróg held up, doing far better than I ever thought it would. The machine really seemed to finally be in a...
So going into the final day, I had a feeling that Barróg could be better, and so much of the Monday morning was spent prepping the machine. One of my wheels was cracked so we tried to replace it, but...
It was the motors that broke every time. The gearboxes seems pretty good and I'm still on the original gearboxes that have had the abuse at both 5s and 4s. At Cheltenham it was on 4s. Tx...
Have a couple of fleaweight flippers lying around that I am unlikely to finish off due to higher priorities.
Each one includes...
3D printed chassis & flipper
2x drive motors with mounts
Turnigy...
FIGHT 5: TOP 20
My opponent for this round was DB12, a compact vertical spinner that had landed some pretty nasty hits earlier in the competition. This would be my first proper 1v1 against a...
After the first days driving mishaps, I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't kamikaze myself again, so I wanted to practice driving around with a weight on the front. Fortunately, Team ACE from the...
@Shooty Cheers mate, hopefully it all goes smoothly!
@Alan Thanks for the heads up - was it the gearboxes that broke or the motors? It was when I was watching videos of ER Cheltenham that I...
CAD renders are looking might fine for the new Strix! However, please may I offer a quick work of caution on the new 12V Argos drill motors on 5s. I broke all 4 of mime on 5s inside 2.5 events, they...
Well, this update post may be *slightly* late, but here is an event report for Barróg from KOB UK/Insomnia 63.
As stated before, I didn't actually have a lot of time to make all necessary...
Oki cheers, I though that would be the case.
I mentioned charging bags to the man in the shop and she said he doesn’t bother selling them anymore because they are half the problem because they...
Hi guys, thanks for the input, just for clarification I shall be running 18v motors with a 650rpm on the output shaft @ 22.2v so I should see a slight increase of speed, I am guessing approx. 800rpm....
I'm running 4" wheels on the feather that I'm building at the moment, but geared more for speed and silly traction than anything else - so take my numbers with a pinch of salt as I'm one of the...
If there's no adapter that came with the charger you'll have to get one but I think you might get away with making your own adapter. Also when you charge it you'll need to put it in a Li Po bag for...
