Team Pasty Build Diary: Loki

[ChrisKazoo]

Sounds good Gabe

Weight saving upgrades for Loki 2: new motor mounts. A saving of 76g. Any glaring issues I've not considered/improvements? They're 6mm ally.

[Gabe01]

Looks good to me. What software are you using?

[harry hills]

I would add some corner radii but aside from that its decent. Sketchup is fairly clunky for robot stuff. Have you considered something like Solidworks or Inventor?

[ChrisKazoo]

Gabe: Google Sketchup

Haz: Thought about it but not sure where to download (for free)?

[harry hills]

Everything is free on the internet. I got a student copy from the autodesk website.

[ChrisKazoo]

Currently working my way through the Autodesk tutorials, cheers Haz

And a little drive test of the new robot:

[harry hills]

Looks like it Drives very nice man.

[Gabe01]

You'll need to sort out the wheelie action when driving forward with power, Flow suffers from that affliction as well.

[Gabe01]

But it does indeed drive nicely

[ChrisKazoo]

Thanks guys, it only weighs 5.6kg at the mo so hopefully when it's made out of the proper stuff and has the flipper arm and armour it will be okay but definitely something to keep an eye on.