Team Troubles Robot Projects

just to compare this is the same robot about 6 months ago...

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and this is about 3-4 months ago ishh

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Looks really good mate.

Here you go jamie since you asked lol

been working on a possible pinsor replacement, i started it late last year for now its all really just a test chassis to see what i could do n that....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-SrAzQEzYU

so far anything i've crushed its gone through- cans and 8mm hdpe even went right thru into my old drum bots chassis and innards which looked pretty cool tbh lol, but tried crushing an old wooden speaker other day and its torn aload of welds and broke its self where the back of the actuator mounts to the back of the chassis but it was only tacked at the back anyway so kinda my fault

The future of its un certain at the minute, im definatly making something with it- im slowly but surley making a 6 wheel drive storm style robot and i realy fancied making it interesting and giving it interchangable weapons i was already doing a lifter so might yet even have that claw assembly as another changable weapon on it as im not sure if i wana keep making loads of new robots anymore as i just don't have the time.

will post a picture later or something :)

Nice work there Calum, hows the HW going?

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Originally Posted by calumco

The future of its un certain at the minute, im definatly making something with it- im slowly but surley making a 6 wheel drive storm style robot and i realy fancied making it interesting and giving it interchangable weapons i was already doing a lifter so might yet even have that claw assembly as another changable weapon on it as im not sure if i wana keep making loads of new robots anymore as i just don't have the time.

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If you can, I'd say definitely go for the interchangeable approach. I've been working on a design for someone that goes down the interchangeable path and have found myself wondering why I haven't tried it before. Keeps the variation with different weapons for different opponents/arenas but negates the need for a whole new robot every time.

Yes, I'm thinking exactly the same thing about Kaizer. Don't get me wrong - I love that lifter to death but it really is a one on one weapon. A great bot to bot weapon but I feel feathers need melee weapons to really get anywhere in a competition nowadays.

Which is a sad state of affairs in my eyes. If the napalms of the world can't get through when the likes of 360 throw themselves out of the arena, It's lost most of it's entertainment value.

Nice crusher but that can crushing is so cliche. Honestly one of these days. I'll do that with Kaizer's forks.

yeah jamie, think im going for the interchangable approach so one set ups a 6 wheel drive invertible storm style robot with a lifter, then for the crusher weapon, wouldn't be invertible and would take the hole shell off the robot for the lifter set up so im basically just using the base with the 6 wheel drive - mount the innards to the base aswell and make basically a different set up to bolt to the robots base, so would end up looking like a different robot pretty much, in my mind its doable lol be a good way of turning up to a new event with a different robot

and the heavys not lol havn't had time and still waiting on parts, easier to do something on a feather if you havn't got much time imo so thats all i've been doing

took some pics,

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just to show the box on wheels of mine with 8mm hdpe top lid that the claw just sliced thru - only reason you can't see a massive crush hole is because the claw reached the end of its stroke before it went all the way thru

There may not be much to it so far, but it looks great :)
And I don't know why, but blue wheels with holes drilled in them look so much better than those without; think I'll do that on my bots, just for the sake of it.

Did a bit to this the other day dave gave me the 2 bulk heads almost a year ago lol

bought 1 pully to make sure it was all good before i bought 6 - now need to get the others bought

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