This is the build log for the Ion Systems team. We are a group of students studying MEng Computing and Electronics at Heriot-Watt University.

Our first attempt at building a fighting robot is a heavyweight to enter robot wars, name to be decided.

Currently we have a few things we want to achieve:
  • Fastest spinup of any spinner in the competition (Hoping to get it less than 2s to full speed) using 3 150cc motors. (30kW)
  • Most manoeuvrable/fastest spinner (using 3 of the Turnigy 50cc motors for drive, 15kW drive)


So for our initial design we had a full body ring spinner designed as a giant bearing, but due to advice from people here it was decided to go with an external bearing design instead.

This was the initial concept:
initial concept.jpg

And after the redesign it looks like this:
bit of a squeeze.jpgside view.png

Its going to be a squeeze to get everything to fit, but I think we will manage. I will update this thread regularly with our progress in the CAD design.