Oh awesome, I didn't know that was Theta. I'll remember that for future events! ;) Thing is, if Blunt Force Trauma hadn't knocked into me as I was ramping off of you, the wings would have saved me...
Thanks for all the kind comments! I'll have the design of The Honey Badger 3 finalised by the end of the week. I've started properly assessing the damage on The Honey Badger 2 - needs a fair bit of...
Well done for going in despite all the issues you were having. The axe certainly sounds impressive and I wouldn't want to be hit too much by it.
For your ground clearance issues, perhaps mounting...
You rang?
Red was an unused series 3 minibot design using 2 steel cables suspended in the cross, probably wouldn't have really worked, aimed more at verts than horizontals.
Sections 13 and 14 are from the Robot Wars series 10 ruleset.
I can see where you are going with this. I suppose the question is "does something that is detached from the robot by the opponent...
I wouldn't have thought so, untethered devices (wherever or not they were entanglement devices) are specifically prohibited under 12.6:
The Robot Wars Series 10 rules say this about...
Unless you are confident about making Brushless motors work, I would keep with the brushed setup as is and see if the ESC and motor can be revived so you can gain more experience at less cost for the...
There certainly is but it doesn't cover Antweights or Beetleweights and I'd question how reliable it is now given the age (from 2009 I think) of it but makes a good starting point.
It is a little...
I didn't see anything nasty there, I wouldn't worry. ;)
As I say, I've got an idea in my head for the next one. I'll need to sit down with a pen and paper and work it out properly. Can't wait to...
So Manchester was a blast. It did feel more like "A featherweight event with some heavies thrown in" but when you are talking 28+ featherweights in the pits, it is easy to come to that conclusion....
No worries, I think Ikari may have had this problem as well.
It was awesome, I'll save on the details until you've seen it on Sunday but safe to say, plenty of work to do ;)
Sounds as if the NanoTwo is holding onto a failsafe state that would appear to include signalling from the TX at the time of binding. Try rebinding the TX and the NanoTwo, making sure not to touch...
I approve very much, well done! Am I right in thinking you are using a NanoTwo V3? The V3 delivers the full battery voltage to the servo rather than limit it to 5V so if the servo you have is a...
I would have thought so but one of the resistors have exploded (I might have plugged in the 6S set into that one without disconnecting the LED). I have got some higher voltage LEDs on order but they...
I have a pair of 14v LEDs (they already have a resistor in them).
Just tried putting the batterties on charge, a 3S LiFe battery is reading < 5 volts! The other 3S set is not far behind but the...
I don't have any resistors at the moment and can't leave the house to go get some. Putting the second LED in series, I thought, would half the voltage over the two lights.
Pretty much ready for Manchester now except for some LEDs that were supposed to have been delivered yesterday but haven't. I do have another LED which if put in series with the other LED, should...
HDPE isn't particularly heavy in of itself. The Honey Badger 2.2 uses 10mm HDPE which, all told, probably adds up to only 1kg, maybe less. If you want it green though, why not look at RG1000, which...
Most ESCs these days have a LiPo function that automatically cut power when the voltage level is too low. The Cytron definitely has the facility to detect undervoltage (< 3.0v per cell)...
So a little change, I've gone back to the CIM motors I was originally planning to use for this and there'll be a little bit of adjustment in the sizes.
I'll be releasing a drawing of what it...
Technically, that could also happen with a hardwired solution (the wires to the LEDs being cut by a spinner for example) and I think that is the crux here, is the only acceptable power light solution...
The next EXR event is in Portsmouth on the 19th-20th May. If that is too far, EXR Guildford is on the 9th and 10th of June. I should stress that Extreme Robots have a limit of HW spinners tip speed,...
Sounds as if there is a reverse needed on one of the channels on the transmitter possibly, I need to do that on The Honey Badger and I think it might have been for this reason.
Because of where it is in the robot, you can't see it binding up, definitely got a video of the gearbox after the case has been dissembled, I'll post it shortly. Repositioning the shaft and bearings...
So a new hub arrived and now it has a M4 hex bolt as a locking pin. Great, except the gearbox has jammed up yet again. :(
I know what the issue is - the gearbox is a 2 stage reduction gearbox and...
I don't use that particular variant so I can't comment but so long as the receiver failsafes to a safe/off position, it then comes down to what you want out of a transmitter.
The battery and ESC...
As I mentioned in my last post, a OrangeRX transmitter would do the job here. Alternatively (and this is the one I have use with Shu! before), a FlySky TX/RX works fine as well.
The batteries you...
Annnnnndddd now the grub screw has sheared in the hub, new one required and ordered :( Definitely going to change this mechanism, it just does not handle shock at all well.
Actually, in addition,...
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I use LiFePO4 batteries in my Beetleweight Shu! which worked quite nicely at the last Beetleweight event I was in though they give out less power than LiPos (a...
So mixed results - I upped the voltage from 13.2v nominal to 19.8v nominal and the axe now fires at a relatively quick rate. I'll need to get a new LED to handle the upped voltage (I am all out at...
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