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Perfect anyway I was going to scrap my original design because of the inversion problem. I am now looking to see what I can do in terms of full rotation around the body of the robot as that style offers a strong offence and a good shield for defence. I will do some CAD and playing about with card and see what I come up with. so I am off the white board again, thanks for the help
Produced a Design that works inverted and has no active weapons!
Basic description: Small compact design with ESC's and Lipo's mounted in cutting wedges. Main body is long with 2 GR02 motors to provide power and control. When in combat the robot will spin a high speed on the spot to launch/hit the opponents. Should the robot become inverted the wedges will still be able to apply the same force to the side of the robot. In the correct orientation the Wheels extend less upwards providing more protection although still able to operate inverted. Basic design but with less ability to add active weapons unless up scaled to a heavyweight where more room allows placement of additional motors.(Hint Hint)
That style of robot has been built before but needs complicated electronics to make it translate whilst spinning or else no robot will bother driving into you whilst you are spinning.
ok I understand you point so I should install a Adriano micro controller that will allow more control over the signals between the RX and the motors. I can write my own program that I can calibrate to my robot.
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A little bigger for extra hardware and weight and clearance for internal mounting for motors. Also smaller wedges so that I don't loose power because of overlap in the middle.
Oh yes also I can wire my Arduino to a APC220 so I can send Serial Data allowing telemetry such as battery voltage and motor speed etc. Receive that and place it onto a screen on a laptop
sounds very interesting. You will need more speed though but I like where this is going.
This looks good! Need to remove some of the 90 degree corners on the back edge (True spinners will be spinning faster than you are!) Melty Mind Drive as its called is difficult but it might be possible with an arduino. You need an accelerometer and a gyro in their to work out your spin speed and the forces so you can subtract them from the movement you want, thus keeping the spin but giving you translation.