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In all honosty, yes it was. And with 700 grams to spare we should have taken the precaution to at least cover the motors a bit. Live and learn.

Has anyone got some vids of the XFM event online?

And he still won :) after the battery pack broke, need to look at that also, shame you threw yourself out the arena in the final or you might just have won that as well, but well done to the flipper that did win (My memory is blank and cant rember its name).

It was Skink, and as the last robot in the arena a deserved winner and grand champion.

Its not easy to award a win to the robot that launched itself out of the arena Leo !

Plus its lucky the roof is almost 5m high or I think youd have bounced off it !

Ed
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Im not complaining. I was glad the ram stayed in one piece this time.

Ive been talking to Ian Watts and the biggest problem will be unsoldering and soldering the new HIP chip back in place! Need a couple of FETs, couple of resistors and the controller chip. it wont cost much more than £20 (I hope) to get it running again:)
Big thanks to Ian Watts for all his help.
Hannibalito was great fun to watch :lol:

I second Leos question. Anybody got vids of the XFM event?

(Message edited by kodster on June 05, 2007)

should have some up tomorrow

Hi Leo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW00O58AQV0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW00O58AQV0
Plus about 11 more uploaded

Hannibalito 2 looks awsome in those vids.

Hi all, I have most of the XFM fights on video and will be putting a DVD together soon with a few downloadable highlights on the website.
Thanks Leo, if youre going to Exeter Skink will be there.

just uploaded a pic on profile of my demo bot, nothing special to see atm however, its nealry finshed i have all the bits just havent finshed the side panels yet.

it closer to being finished than mine is anthony. mines still a pile of bits

Great vids Tony! I loved the selfright across the arena one. :)

Is there one of the final as well? Id like to see the flip i did on Little Flipper 2 from another angle.

Got the fight from the pit / arena door corner, Little Flipper is thrown right to left accross the screen.

Awesome vids. :)

Help!!! Started to edit stuff from the XFM and realised Ive used the same tape twice!!!
Whata mistaka to maka!
Tony (Team Dragon) I understand you have some video of the event, I have roughly lost the footage of the middle 2 shows can we do some swaps? Mike.

Yes no prob
Email me your adresse and i will send you what I have got.

done more work on psycho ram robot improvements, http://www.psychoflingteam.co.ukwww.psychoflingteam.co.uk

alex

looks good, that frame for back of psycho fling looks heavy though, is it 25x25x1.6mm box??

My new feather weight HOOVA

Stats
2x 12 volt drill motors
Windscreen wiper motor powered flipper
2 electronize 30amp speedos
3.3 amp sla battery
8kg of weight expected when finished
armour and chasis 6mm polycarb + hoova old hoova!
Cost around 20 pounds to build.

A robot for my girlfrend who is a clean a holic. Quote The only robot that I would want is a robot hoova. So here it is!!!
Yes i know its rubish and I expect it to last no more then one competition. Most of the components are solid and hopefully it will break into peices and I can put it into a nice part steel part polycarb chassie.
But till then long live hoova!!!

Vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZIvvE_Cexkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZIvvE_Cexk

Pics
http://img385.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hoover008mx3.jpghttp://img385.imageshack.us/my.php?i...over008mx3.jpg
http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hoover003ra3.jpghttp://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?i...over003ra3.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hoover009tu9.jpghttp://img521.imageshack.us/my.php?i...over009tu9.jpg

i cant believe u got it working,it awsoume! marco :D btw can u still lend me that radio gear?

yeh kenny most of the frame will be that size you mentione, but im using some large pieces for certain areas. ill weigh it today and post the results

ive weighed it and its come to 2.24kg, the the base being 5.6kg thats 7.84kg+armour mixture of HDPE and Ali

alex

Who came 1st 2nd and 3rd at Ipswich

My whole chassis was going to be 20X20X1.5 box but might have to change it if its over weight.

(Message edited by xtreme on June 10, 2007)

Tony, I think it was Skink 1st, Hannibalito 2 2nd and Little Flipper 3rd.

I got your email BTW, thanks.

Thats great Marco, looks fantastic ! :)

starting a feather pic on profile :)

just had it laying around so i thought i better use it for something!

(Message edited by teamkenny on June 17, 2007)

Oh ---- more flying lessons :sad:

a 3.4 kg ram in a feather???

I will call NASA and get a Launch window. :rofl:

That monster is a Gravity equivalent.... a heavyweight ram, consuming at least 65L of CO2 in 1 go.

A 600gram bottle contains 307L at best. 4 actions... have fun. Also, I have a difficult time to contain the force of Hannibalito II (at the moment II.3) . And that ram is a few times smaller.

Part finished Feather.
http://www.teamonslaught.fsnet.co.uk/P6170009a.jpghttp://www.teamonslaught.fsnet.co.uk/P6170009a.jpg

http://www.teamonslaught.fsnet.co.uk/P6170007aa.jpghttp://www.teamonslaught.fsnet.co.uk/P6170007aa.jpg

Wow woody, that looks very compact. what does it weigh as it is now?

8kgs ...No battery, ram or armour.

I can see the future, I see a robot that needs a crash diet. :)

I thought we had it bad, no armour and no flipperarm yet on Hannibalito 2 after its modification and also 8 kg. But you are even worse off.

Still, I like the shape and its compact layout. I look forward to flipping it. :rofl:

(Message edited by leorcc on June 18, 2007)

I suspect that Ill have little weight left for armour .....maybe 1.5 - 2kgs.

Approx 1kg each for the battery and ram.

The battery will slide up inside the middle leg of the T formed by the Ali channel main chassis.....The ram will angle back towards the 3 port F.P. Valve , between and following the line of the flipper legs.
The speed control , switch etc lives inside the rear channel.