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Thank you so much for allowing Cyrilium Mach 2!!
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And the point of you saying that is...what? Joey never did it when he arrived, neither did I, AJ, Kody or Steven or any other of the vapourboteers ever!
The only reason I did it is because you and most of the roboteers were mad at me during the first 2 months.
Hmmm, I wonder why.
Sorry for the lack of fine details, but:
Opened by Transfer
Team - Team Casimir Pulaski
Mass - About 100 kg, hopefully it will be on the right side of 100KG with the lack of a proper weapon and light armour.
Colour - Unpainted to save weight, so it€™s the colour of carbon fibre
Shape - Simple box with wedges on all 4 sides.
Wheels - It has 4 wheels, however only the rear 2 have power, the front 2 are like car steering where they can move though an arc of 40 degree (20 degree either way).
Motors - None whatsoever! How does it move might you ask? Read on
Drive -
This is going to be hard to try and explain, so I will do the front wheels first, the front turning wheels are powered by a small remote-controlled car-like system (the wheels are at the end of a sub-frame, where a linear actuator providing the turning force to turn the front 2 wheels. Imagine a car, with the linear actuator turning the steering wheel. The wheels turn 20 degree either way.
The rear two wheels are independent of each other, and this works in Lego and in theory should work full-scale, the wheels have a crankshaft coming back into the robot, the shafts connect to the same unit where they can turn independent of each other (I can do a lovely drawing if you would want me to), but basically there are 4 small hydraulic rams connected to the shafts, 2 on each side, connected so that when the rams go forward and backwards the wheel turns, based on an engine. The rams are timed so that when one pushes the second ram pulls back in a rotary action. The wheels are separated to aid turning (variable speed). In terms of horsepower, I have no idea, as I haven€™t put much research into the various hydraulic rams, as I am lazy and can€™t be bothered spending a few hours on researching for something which will probably get knocked out in round 1 to an overweight machine.
Turning Circle - If need be one rear wheel can be put into reverse and the other in forward and the robot can turn in a lovely arc, which isn€™t zero, but a metre or so.
Weapon - There isn€™t a weapon as such as I didn€™t want to push the robot over-weight due to the hydraulic drive, but as I didn€™t want to be defenceless, I put on a wedge on each side and a linear actuator powered lifting arm on top of the machine in order to self-right the beast if it gets flipper. It is only used to self-right.
Self-righter - That linear actuator powered lifting arm on the top does a good job at self-righting the beast
Chassis/Armour - The chassis is box-aircraft grade aluminium tubing, strengthen at key points with some steel, everything is nice and tight, apart from the rams which have to move up and down when the crank turns. The armour is bolted onto the chassis at numerous points and it is carbon-fibre, stronger than steel it is. I have tried to design the chassis to give 45:55 weight distributions.
Speed - Depends, about 16 mph if I have a good run.
Ground clearance - under the body it is 15mm, under the wedges it is zero.
Summary - It€™s just a test-bed for a motor-less machine, so chances it will exit at round 1 because it€™s different and because I have no idea on the numerous parts needed for the drive system, so I have cut-back on weaponry/armour to allow for the weight of the drive system, but mainly I wanted to try something original and different.
save me a spot if available
List Of Entries
1- Joey McConnell (Pontefract)
a. Nidhogg
2- Kody Kunz (Toronto, Canada)
a. Seung Mina IV
3- Liam Elliot (Cardiff, Wales)
a. Gulp
4- Danny Bailey (Bedford)
a. Crimson Thunder
5- Mark Elam (Texas, USA)
a. Cyrilium Mach 2
6- Daniel Stickler (Wales)
a. Requirem
7- Dave Sheppard (Hampshire)
a. Opened By Transfer
8- Leo Van Merit (Hoogvliet, Holland)
a. Holepunch
9- Steven McGregor (Glasgow)
a. Wedge Devolution
10- Alex Holt (Leicester)
a. Black Panther
11- Martijn Benschop (Enschede, the Netherlands)
a. ???
12- ???
a. ???
13- ???
a. ???
So thats 10 people with robots down, Martijn with his name but not his robot down, and two more avaliable spaces. AJ? Matty? Martyn? Alex M? Anyone?
And again, van Merit?
Dont worry - its sorted.
Lacking stats from me, sorry:
Gulp will have a top speed of about 12mph and can lift/crush about 200kg
Some updates for Cyrilium Mach 2:
Colour: Gold. No stripe this time.
Dimensions: 100cm x 57cm x 29cm
Speed: 17mph
Armour: 8mm Diamond (Yes, Diamond. It is strong, light, and real.
Ground Clearance: 5mm at back and sides, still 0mm at the front.
Power: 4x S28-400 Magmotors powered by 6x NiCad Battlepacks.
Weapon 1: A Mortis-shaped axe, powered by an S28-400 Magmotor. Made out of 100 percent pure diamond. It can come down with over one tonne of force.
Weapon 2: A Mortis-shaped electric lifting arm, powered by another S28-400 Magmotor, that can lift over 200KGs of weight.
Notes: Components are shock mounted to reduce shock damage. Very reliable. One tough nut to crack.
You cant have diamond unless you can explain how you are going to possibly have it - you cannot get a sheet of diamond, and even if you did it would be incredibly brittle if its a big sheet 8mm thick and a meter long. It just doesnt come that big and despite the stength it would just shatter under most attacks.
If you *insist* on having diamond you could theoretically just stud the entire thing in diamond chips (like they use on saws) which is theoretically possible and not brittle. However, I doubt it would produce any noteable benefits to armour.
Would diamond not put it overweight?
Yes Diamond is brittle. Although it is extremely hard, diamond will shatter if struck with a hammer or other large force.
The density of diamond is 3.53g/cm3, so 3,53kg/dm3.
diamond isnt that much lighter than titanium (for example) is
75%
What about 7mm Quartz? Isnt it true that Quartz is strong, can come in sheets, and is not brittle?
Itd be very expensive, and people wouldnt know how to treat it in battles and such...besides, how are you going to mount it? With something like quartz, I dont know if you could drill it or bolt it without it becoming extrememly brittle at the mounting points...
Mark, youre seriously better off with 5mm Hardox or something more conventional - if there was something that really was super-armour, everyone would be using it.
Fine then.
Armour: 5mm Hardox, which will hopefully not be destroyed.
You are kidding right? What could possibly destroy 5mm Hardox?
*thinks*
An Atomic Bomb :proud:
MDU?
The obviousness of Bushs lack of intelligence?
ok, Kody has got a point there, but if there is one metal that might survive that it is Hardox. :)
New Update for Cyrilium Mach 2:
Weapon 1: A Mortis-shaped axe powered by an S28-400 Magmotor. It can come down with over a tonne of force, and can finally pierce hard materials like 4mm hardox or 5mm titanium.
No it cant.
OK - a suggestion for designing things - dont speculate how much damage a weapon can do unless you really know what you are talking about. As far as Im aware, youll never ever get that output out of a motor and the chances of an axe being capable of pierce hardox or titanium are very slender at best.
When talking about an axe weapon, give the followign info:
Blade shape and material (and possibly weight)
What is powering it (either electric or pnuematic, give a bit of info for each)
Whether or not it is double sided
Any detail that makes it designed for a more specific purpose (shaft length etc)
Dont speculate on speed and power because you simply dont know and as it is you are prone to guess wildly at detail that sound cool but arent realistic in the slightest.
This weekend we will be fitting a Hardox 650 axe on Obsidian with a big ram powering it, and we know we will not penetrate Hardox. Not a chance. But we go ahead with it anyway because axes are cool. :)
Axes are the coolest weapon.
IF I may push Martijn to put his robot down, and for two extra people to enter this competition, then I can get this thing moving.
And by the way Liam, Im sticking with the previous version of Cyrillium Mach 2, and if you post ANY reminders, updates or stupid comments for ANYTHING THAT I DISLIKE...I will remove your space on this competition.
Liam?
Oh no! Sorry Liam, I didnt mean to put your name down - I meant Mark but didnt noticed Id written Liam. SORRY :sad:
No worries! Ill just switch Marks name for yours in my next insulting post:crazy:
Ooooooooo! :mrgreen:
where are all the other people?! I thought people would be more interested in this Paul, though if they havent entered already they probably wont.
Now, now Liam! Lets not discourage a fellow writer! :proud:
Though I am (again) short one in my Dual Duels tournament...care to enter Liam?
I might as well give this one a go - http://teamcode14.proboards24.com/in...splay&thread=8
Flick of the Wrist is my notorious challenge belt king!
LOL if Flick wins this!
List Of Entries
1- Joey McConnell (Pontefract)
a. Nidhogg
2- Kody Kunz (Toronto, Canada)
a. Seung Mina IV
3- Liam Elliot (Cardiff, Wales)
a. Gulp
4- Danny Bailey (Bedford)
a. Crimson Thunder
5- Mark Elam (Texas, USA)
a. Cyrilium Mach 2
6- Daniel Stickler (Wales)
a. Requirem
7- Dave Sheppard (Hampshire)
a. Opened By Transfer
8- Leo Van Miret (Hoogvliet, Holland)
a. Holepunch
9- Steven McGregor (Glasgow)
a. Wedge Devolution
10- Alex Holt (Leicester)
a. Black Panther
11- Martijn Benschop (Enschede, the Netherlands)
a. Flick Of The Wrist
12- AJ (Bourne, Lincolnshire)
a. Rupture
13- ???
a. ???
Just 1 more entry, and then I can get this going.
Paul, I know this is last minute, but I want to try out my new toy:
http://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...ies&thread=170