Wow! Thank you for the very high praise :D
Yes, FeatherDozer (I still hate the name) would probably be better as a low, 4WD lifter, but I wanted a design as compact as possible and look a bit...
I'm really impressed by the creativity of this design. Usually the "way" to make a pushing robot is 4 wheel drive or a low angled wedge. I've seen Featherdozer fight in several videos and been...
Hey Theo! Look forward to seeing your projects unfold over hopefully not that many months, and getting duffed up at Robodojo by the results later this year.
As for your historical "bodged" robots,...
Hi Theo
When I first started reading your post I thought Oh No ! another Roboteer throwing in the towel but
then I read on and found quite the opposite.
You are a great ambassador for the fighting...
Good evening all!
Feels like ages since I've done a full write-up, but here we go!
I think it goes without saying that 2020 has been a little bit of a bust for all of us robot people. With...
And found out a hundred or so things that I’ll definitely be doing differently for the next one 😂
definitely makes the stress of not knowing things/ doing things wrong worth it at the end!
...
Fixes & Changes
First item on the agenda post event 2 was to fix all areas of damage. The notable areas for repair included:
Axe damage to arm & self-righter brackets (superficial)
Axe damage...
Hi Lucy,
I use a similar method as I knew I did not need to flash as often and I did not want a lot of random wires poking out. I will give a check this evening on my firewall settings and see...
No worries ;) I have a USBAsp with a stamper pad on it for flashing so I don't need to solder the connections as Robert has to.
I have been able to download it before, it isn't being blocked...
Okay.
After digging out my old windows 7 laptop, I managed to find the program used to flash the F80 escs (KKmulticopter). Unfortunately the file used is not there (sorry :() plus the program...
Thanks Brandan :),
The inspiration came from wanting to build an overhead sawbot (which I still want to do but there are already 2 feather sawbots in the UK). So the front end kind of comes from...
Hi Lucy,
Thanks once again for the complements! I basically followed the configuration that Robert Cowan used in his SimonK flashing tutorial video as I was relatively new to esc modification (I...
I love the look of this, soooooo much better than what I am coming out with at the moment, gonna have to up my building game with Azriel 2.0.
You mentioned F80 speed controllers with SimonK...
Thanks Andrew (from a reply earlier in this thread),
When we are able to get back to fighting safely, I look forward to hopefully getting a chance to fight the glorious toaster :)
PS sorry I...
Event 2 - Robodojo 26/09/20
Confident in at least one of my modifications, I headed back up to Leeds for another dose of addictive, intense fun!
As before I will go over some of the...
Hi all,
Hope everyone is well.
I have an old 18v battery drill. The motor is running fine but the battery is now obsolete, therefore if anyone can use it, you can have it as long as you pay...
Ive watched the snappy build video, i believe he used 4mm hdpe, with the servo resting against it.
I think it might be a case of making both up, and having a play to see which one seems a more...
It would be all in the construction as how rigid that'd be.
HDPE probably wouldn't work as well here because of how flexible it can be (say the load on the mechanism was off centre for example,...
I’ve chosen and designed a 4 bar lifter mechanism.
I’m really torn between using 1cm box section aluminium for the lifter mechanism, or 1cm2 hdpe.
obviously hdpe bends and flexes which...
Time to Modify - Mk1.5
Despite a lot of successes from the first event, a number of changes were required. Apart from the obvious driving practice, I needed to focus on two of the issues:
...
The blue black connectors can be easly found on ebay or other similar places under pneumatic push fit connectors. They are cheap and easy to use. But only go to 10 bar. I have used many in my robots...
Ah amazing. Thank you very much. I have actually watched a video of your feather weight before but didn't see this one.
Have you got a link for the blue/black connectors?
Hiya,
Would it be possible to measure the length of the black part of the motor can and let me know please? I've got a set of very similar motors and have been on the lookout for another pair, but...
Hi all
Just been clearing out my garage and found a set of mobility scooter motors (brushed) with worm gearboxes. These were my spare ones from my first version of my middleweight robot Backflip....
Happy New Year! Lets hope that more events are given the go ahead in 2021.
Event 1 - Robodojo 26/07/20
I decided to start in the Sportsman class as I wanted to learn how the robot performs...
Cytron do a 10A dual and single channel ESC (https://www.robotshop.com/uk/cytron-smartdriveduo-smart-dual-channel-10a-motor-driver.html for example) which may work in a BW application. It looks to be...
