Team DD Robots

Hi!

Starting this thread to have one place where I gather all my projects.
I'm a swedish roboteer whos been around for several years but yet to actually complete
a worthy combat robot!
I wont post pictures of my old projects but they can be found on my photobucket page.

My FW is on it's second version as the first one was a trial and error one, it did actually work decent!

My ant is being completely rebuilt for the 5th time as there have always been things I havn't been
satisfied with.
The current name is V5 which stands for Version 5 and now I'm keeping things simple and here's the result so far:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...s/Version5.jpg

6V Voltage regulator for weapon servo along with a removable link made out of a jumper.

Specs:

1mm Polycarbonate
Polulu 50:1 HP motors + wheels
Sabertooth 2x5RC
OrangeRX dsm2 4 chan reciever
Gravity 250mAh 2S LiPo
GWS Park HPX Flipper servo

looks good :) why do you need a voltage reg?

Cheers, well i dont think my servo would handle the 8,4V from the Lipo pack and not sure if the BEC from the speedo will manage
to power it either.

Actually the HPXF's will run on lipo voltage, I have done in the past. Put the positive line from the servo into the positive terminal of the speedo to use it on full voltage. I would recommend to avoid stalling it at all costs.

You underestimate sabertooths, I have run lots of setups using servos off the saber BEC and it works just fine.

Ah I see thanks for the info.
Just remember I've read about ppl having the bec to shut down while using the Park HPX servos because of their high current draw
and wanted to not suffer from that, and afaik it would be able to flip most things at 6V anyways.
But I'll look it up and try it in another project as I should have plenty of weight left over for the regulator anyways.

Made the top shell along with servo holder and then soldered the regulator to the removable link and put a mini deans as the cables were short:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...rregulator.jpg

This is my current progress on my FW which has no name as of now:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3.../FWpreview.jpg

Specs:
4WD by 4 standard drill motors (100mm blue wheels)
Sabertooth 2x25 Speed controller
Lifter powered by drill motor and threaded rod
Electronize 30A weapon controller
4600mAh home made NiMh 12v battery
15mm HDPE armor (5mm top and bottom)

I've now finished the top and sides of the robot, including soem side rails so it wont get stuck.
Flipper arm is also done and the last part to be done is the flipper scoop itself out of 1mm titanium grade 2.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...lbarsfront.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...iewflipper.jpg

I am building an ant with all the same parts funny enough, what weight are you at now then ?

Ah sounds nice :)
Havn't rly weighed it until now but the scale show 148g, without the ti flipper blade..
I'm gonna reduce the size of it, and started to plan where to get rid of some excess weight.
Gonna try to see how much 1mm titanium weigh, but it should be alright.

Actually ordered some 0.4mm titanium aswell to possibly replace it later on to get a bigger flipper