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My case is rested :P
I have my first bot somewhere..........on my old compaq, hold on. (me and my friends have done this stuff since 03 but never discovered the online comunites, we had everything done IRL :uhoh: )
Jack: That is looking much better! I'm not good with the Team Cosmos calculator either, but I did a quick calculation for a 1000mm x 100mm x 18mm Hardox bar (which weighed about 14.5kgs) at 1500rpm, but it only came out at about 15kJ, which isn't that great. If you doubled the speed to 3000rpm, you would get about 60kJ, which sounds good to me. I guess it depends whether you want more power or a faster spin-up time.
Cory: Cosmic Revolution is coming along nicely. If you follow Joey's latest suggestions it should be quite good.
OK finalized version of Shield of Gondolin (Still suprised Kody hasnt recognized the name yet)
Shield of Gondolin
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Storm 2, a box with wedges on the front and sides, but its swapped, as the flat back is now the front
Colour: Black, with blood spattered red all over, and a picture of a dragon on the baseplate
Dimensions: Height 25cm Width: 65cm Length: 105cm without disc
Drive: 2x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 4x 3000mAh NiCad Battlepacks.
Locomotion: 2 Storm 2 style wheels situated at the back were the original front wedge went
Armour: 6mm Titanium
Speed: 10mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm at the back 5mm elsewhere
Weapon: 259 style flywheel with 4 teeth on it powered by a 25.9v S28-400 Magmotor at 4000rpm
Shrimech: Disc will pop it back over
Strength: Bloody good weapon
Weakness: Dunno
BIO: A new design for 2011
Win/loss ratio: N/A
So the modifications are:
Armour reduced to 6mm Titanium to save weight
Only 2 magmotors instead of 4
4 battlepacks instead of 7
Speed reduced to 10mph
Also, the full body flipper/Achilles clone idea might become a serperate robot
Ok i want to give hammer and Nailz 2 an omega revamp, possibly under the name Hammerlet (5 quid to who got the
joke :P )
Heres the stats of the (What i now call fail) bot
http://strickenone.proboards.com/index. ... thread=770
Also im not sure what to do with Curse of the Deep, either a rebuild or scale down or retirement
Heres the stats http://teamzlayerz.proboards.com/index. ... 158&page=1
All advice welcome :D
Hammer & Nails looks good to me Lian, but if you want to revamp it I'd remove one of the axes, personally I don't see the need for 2 :)
And I'd keep Curse of the Deep just for that nice CAD, it'll probably do better over here than it did on ARC ;)
And if anyone wouldn't mind looking at Vertigo here, been a while since I wrote out FRA-style stats and I think the pneumatics in particular may be off....
http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/...m/Vertigo1.jpg
http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/...m/Vertigo2.jpg
VERTIGO
BODY SHAPE: Box with 60* wedge at front and angled rear ala Tornado. The sides are sloped at 45*
WEIGHT: 100kg
DIMENSIONS (L X W X H): 80cm x 75cm x 20cm
COLOUR: See CAD
LOCOMOTION: 4 x internal wheels, made of aluminium with unrethane tyres. Each is exposed from the top and bottom and is 22cm in diameter
GROUND CLEARANCE: 0 at the wedge, 8mm at sides and 10mm at rear
DRIVE MOTORS: 2 x LEMCO-130 lynch motors running @ 48v
DRIVE BATTERIES: 4 x NiCad battlepacks at 12v in series
SPEED: 18mph
TURNING CIRCLE: 0 metres
BODY ARMOUR: 4mm hardox monoque, flipper/top panel is
6mm.
CHASSIS: 4mm hardox monocoque. The removable panel is the top one.
WEAPON 1: The whole top panel is a full pressure flipper, powered by a 100mm ram @ 725psi from a 3kg co2 bottle, providing plenty of flips and a lot of power, similar power in fact to the modern Kronic the Wedgehog.
SRIMECH: The robot is invertible, but the flipper can be used to right it if needs be.
STRENGTHS: Powerful weaponry, tough armour
THEME SONG: Bodies by Drowning Pool
It's spelt 'monocoque' ;P but other than that I can't see any real problems* with it, nice work :) the same goes for the improved Drumblebee (which I can't be bothered to make a second post about, heh)
*having had a second glance I have noticed that you're lacking a bit in battery power - you probably do have enough weight to change to a pair of (or even three) 48v packs in parallel to give more capacity, so that won't be an issue
I spelt it wrong then right! *facepalm*
Thanks Joey, that shall be changed :D
[quote=super_sporty]Hammer & Nails looks good to me Lian, but if you want to revamp it I'd remove one of the axes, personally I don't see the need for 2 :)
And I'd keep Curse of the Deep just for that nice CAD, it'll probably do better over here than it did on ARC ;)
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Hammer and nails i think does need a rebuild and i think Curse of the Deep should lose a couple of kg due to the fact
SHW get almost no attention really, i dont want my bots to sit there gathering dust
Also the full body flipper has arrived, with more detailed flipper stats
Empty Inside
Shape: Storm 2, a box with wedges on the front and sides, with a rounded back
Colour: Camo, with shades of red
Dimensions: Height 25cm Width: 65cm Length: 105cm
Drive: 2x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 5x 3000mAh NiCad Battlepacks.
Locomotion: 2 Storm 2 style wheels
Armour: 6mm titanium
Speed: 12mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm all over thanks to Titanium skirting, 5mm with out though
Weapon:An Achilles style rear-hinged flipper,which is attached from the back and goes all the way down the front to the bottom of the wedge. powered by a 1000pi 2.5kg C02 tank, with 2 70mm bore 300mm stroke rams which power the flipper. Can flip up to 300kg and can lift up to 400kg, much like Achilles itself, it is a full body flipper
Scrimech: The flipper of course
Strength: Powerful weapon
Weakness: Dunno
BIO: Another new design for 2011
Win/loss ratio: N/A
rated I for: This bot is in the hands of an Idiot
Empty Inside
^ EMO!!!!!! :P jks
Shape: Storm 2, a box with wedges on the front and sides, with a rounded back
Colour: Camo, with shades of red
Dimensions: Height 25cm Width: 65cm Length: 105cm
^ All good
Drive: 2x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 5x 3000mAh NiCad Battlepacks.
^ This is fine, I'm not sure if you need that many batteries but I'm sure that's enough power
Locomotion: 2 Storm 2 style wheels
^ Again this should be ok if you're thinking of a Merlin-esque set-up with 2 wheels at the front, I'd make that clear in the stats though.
Armour: 6mm titanium
Speed: 12mph
^ This is fine
Ground Clearance: 0mm all over thanks to Titanium skirting, 5mm with out though
^ You need to state the ground clearance behind the skirts, and also say where the skirts are, which you have done but I'm not sure you mean there's a skirt on the front and back as well?
Weapon:An Achilles style rear-hinged flipper,which is attached from the back and goes all the way down the front to the bottom of the wedge. powered by a 1000pi 2.5kg C02 tank, with 2 70mm bore 300mm stroke rams which power the flipper. Can flip up to 300kg and can lift up to 400kg, much like Achilles itself, it is a full body flipper
^ Seems fine apart from the last sentence; 1) I'm sure it's more powerful than you've stated and 2) Specify full body flipper, is it just the top panel or the whole shell?
Otherwise nice design Lian :)
As for Hammer & Nails and Curse of the Deep, it's up to you of course, why do you think H&N needs a rebuild though? and I'd keep a SHW around, tournaments crop up here and there and it's always handy to have one
Haha lewis
The name came from one of my favourite songs. and also another idea the the electronics would be attacched to the
weapon so when it fired, axes could not hit anything inside, hence the name and also ditch the idea cos it was impractical
Ok ive resorted the stats
Empty Inside
Shape: Storm 2, a box with wedges on the front and sides, with a rounded back
Colour: Camo, with shades of red
Dimensions: Height 25cm Width: 65cm Length: 105cm
Drive: 2x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 5x 3000mAh NiCad Battlepacks.
Locomotion: 2 Storm 2 style wheels, like Merlin, are positioned at the front
Armour: 6mm titanium
Speed: 12mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm, under the flipper and 0mm elsewhere except the back thanks to Titanium skirting, 5mm with out skirts though
Weapon:An Achilles style rear-hinged flipper,which is attached from the back and goes all the way down the front to the bottom of the wedge. powered by a 1000pi 2.5kg C02 tank, with 2 70mm bore 300mm stroke rams which power the flipper. Can flip up to 300kg and can lift up to 400kg, much like Achilles itself, it is a full body flipper, which means that the front wedge and the top, fire towards the back of the robot, the sides do not flip up though
Scrimech: The flipper of course
Strength: Powerful weapon
Weakness: Dunno
BIO: Another new design for 2011
Win/loss ratio: N/A
rated I for: This bot is in the hands of an Idiot
Is that better?
Vertical ring spinner of doom
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/pho...eat=directlink
I'm too lazy to redo the cad but it will look sort of similar to the original design but with pointy things to protect the wheels a bit, some small wedges to get under things better and some weight reducing slots and holes in the main tube that emit an eeirie green glow courtesy of green leds.
Name: Still needs one, any suggestions please
Weight: 100kg
Shape: S3 (Cylinder with a massive vertical disc)
Dimensions (LxWxH): 98cm x 120 cm x 88cm
Colour: Black ring, lime green teeth and a pale green main body
Drive: 2 * S28-400 magmotors on a 7.5:1 ratio at 33V with 10 * 10 cell A123 ANR26650M1 battery packs
Locomotion: 2* 15cm diameter 10cm wide weldalite hubbed wheels covered in urethane rubber
Armour: 5mm weldalite (aluminium alloy) nearly everywhere but 10mm on the ring supports and strategic shockproofing to prevent it from breaking itself.
Speed: 14mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm at the wedges, 5mm elsewhere.
Turning Circle: 0 cm
Weapon: 30kg vertical spinning ring. 15kg 70cm diameter weldalite ring with 3*5 kg blunt hardox teeth that also point inside the ring to give anything that goes inside the ring a good whack. Powered by dual 2230-725 neumotors it has a max spinning speed of 3000rpm kicking out 175kJ.
Lian: CO2 doesn't work at 1000psi, it becomes a liquid at a point (dependent on temperature) between 700 and 800psi, and can't be brought any higher - the solution to this is either to make the flipper just 'full pressure CO2' or if you want 1000psi you'll have to run on nitrogen, which to complicate things is measured by pressure and volume and not weight ;P
Otherwise the robot looks alright to me.
Jordan: The only problems at all with that are a) they're not called S28-400s any more, they're A28-400s due to the production being taken over by Ampflow at some point in 2010 (sneaky little motors...)
and b) that's a picture of Frustum, heh :P
Otherwise it looks alright, I'll trust you on the Weldalite structure since 10mm seems a bit thin to support a full 175kJ hit, but then I suppose once you've hit someone with that sort of energy self damage doesn't matter much since then you can repair it before the next round :)
I am terrible with names of late, perhaps follow with the song titles idea?
Ok hopefully its the final version now
Empty Inside
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Storm 2, a box with wedges on the front and sides, with a rounded back
Colour: Camo, with shades of red
Dimensions: Height 25cm Width: 65cm Length: 105cm
Drive: 2x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 5x 3000mAh NiCad Battlepacks.
Locomotion: 2 Storm 2 style wheels, like Merlin, are positioned at the front
Armour: 6mm titanium
Speed: 12mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm, under the flipper and 0mm elsewhere except the back thanks to Titanium skirting, 5mm with out skirts though
Weapon:An Achilles style rear-hinged flipper,which is attached from the back and goes all the way down the front to the bottom of the wedge. powered by a 750pi 2.5kg C02 tank, with 2 70mm bore 300mm stroke rams which power the flipper. Can flip up to 300kg and can lift up to 400kg, much like Achilles itself, it is a full body flipper, which means that the front wedge and the top, fire towards the back of the robot, the sides do not flip up though
Scrimech: The flipper of course
Strength: Powerful weapon
Weakness: Dunno
BIO: Another new design for 2011
Win/loss ratio: N/A
rated I for: This bot is in the hands of an Idiot
Hopefully its all ready to go :)
Weldalite is an alloy of aluminium that is about twice as strong as some of the aircraft grade aluminiums and around that of some stainless steels.
Although I have removed more weight from the design than I have added with the weight holes I can pretty easily thicken up the disc supports if need be and it needs a redesign to make it look more scary.
I'm thinking of calling it Shego after the character from the awesome show, Kim Possible due to them both being green, black and very destructive.
Just thought id ask again, ive posted the re-stat 2 comments above this one, just wondering if its now got the green
light and ready to go :)
EDIT: 700th post, im catching up to most of the fanfic guys :P
No issues that I can see Lian, nope :)
Yay, its now sorted, just wanted to make sure :)
My team seems to be gettin better this year. Watch out lads!!! (Obivously a figure of speech i suck)
lads, I pose a question to thee...
Would a hydraulic crushing/lifting system be feasible? I would like to have a system that combines horizontal pincers with a lifting arm, and not precisely in the same way Big Nipper has done.
Hey. I've kinda come back after ages and have done a bit of updating. These are some updates of old robots that could've done better, and now hopefully may :proud:
VOLCANO (Formerly 'Inferno')
€ WEIGHT: 100kg.
€ ARMOUR: 3mm Titanium on top, and 10mm Titanium on the base, with 6mm Weldox plating around the sides. It also has 1 Inch worth of PU Foam around the edge, 1cm of Vulkalon rubber around the as well, as well as strapping all the electrics down. All of the armour is curved over so no panels can be just be torn off.
€ SHAPE: Low cylinder shape.
€ MOTORS: 2 x S28-150 MagMotors at 24V = 6HP
€ LOCOMOTION: 4 x 60mm diameter Vulkalon treaded tyres.
€ DIMENSIONS: (L) 90CM (W) 90CM (H) 11CM
€ COLOUR: Black on top and bottom, with flames going around the outer rim. The disc is natural Hardox colour, with the name €˜VOLCANO€™ in fire colours.
€ WEAPONRY: A large horizontal disc mounted on top, made from 8mm thick Hardox, weighing 35kg in weight, with 2 large blunt non-attached teeth, as in the teeth are shaped from the disc, not needing to have teeth surgically attached. The teeth reached out 6cm, and are 5cm wide, 0.8cm deep, and are bent at the end to bend down to a height of 3cm from the ground, and therefore, it can strike low down. The disc is powered by 2 x S28-400 MagMotors at 36V, and get up to 2500rpm in the space of 2-2.5 seconds, and 50kj is the output achieved. In addition to the new model, a small 4mm thick Hardox bar will be welded across the disc, so now Volcano can self right by spinning its disc, something it€™s predicesor couldn€™t do.
€ SPEED: 12MPH
€ GROUND CLEARANCE: 4mm all the way around.
€ STRENGTH: Powerful weapon and strong armour.
€ WEAKNESS: May loose in a straight out pushing match.
SUPERSONIC (Formerly 'The Rock')
€ WEIGHT: 100kg
€ ARMOUR: 6mm Hardox on the rear, top and sides. 4mm Aluminium on the base and front. Inside, I have 4cm of Vulkanised rubber to make sure its good when facing spinners.
€ SHAPE: A low Beta-esque shape. 4 sided cut-off pyramid shape, with all sides sloped at 42* so to deflect spinners
€ MOTORS: 2 x S28-400 MagMotors at 36V = 12HP
€ LOCOMOTION: 4 Rubber Wheels that can be pressure adjusted to suit a situation i.e. greater acceleration will increase tyre pressure.
€ DIMENSIONS: (L) 80CM (H) 30CM (W) 80CM
€ COLOUR: White, except for the name on the front clearly in black, and the black-axe head.
€ WEAPONRY: A VERY powerful CO2 axe. The axe is 850mm long axe, completely made of Hardox, and the axe mechanism is mounted INSIDE the cut-off pyramid top of the robot to avoid it being ripped off by spinners as easily hopefully. The entire thing weights 5kg, with 3kg in the axe head - the axe head is Killerhurtz shaped to more effectively grapple an opponent as opposed to battering them. The axe runs on a rack-and-pinion system through a 250mm stroke, 100mm bore pneumatic cylinder at 190psi! This allows me to give 1000kg of force per hit! I have 30 hits, and I can cause some harm with a spiked axehead.
€ SPEED: 15mph
€ GROUND CLEARANCE: 5mm on every side, but they are covered up by Hardox spring-loaded skirts held on with Titanium hindges, so I can get underneath, and hammer away!!
€ STRENGTH: Good acceleration and powerful weapon.
€ WEAKNESS: Weak top/base armour.
AUTOISM 4.0
€ WEIGHT: 100kg
€ ARMOUR: This is a unique armour adaption for my robots. The actual armour for the body is 4mm Aluminium Boron Carbide (a material lighter than Titanium, but STRONGER than Tool Steel). It€™s a lightweight that allows for a 5mm Hardox exo-skeleton with triangles for extra-strength to quell blows from toothed spinners, as they hit the chassis before they hit the body.
€ SHAPE: Box shape with the front/rear shaped <>, but the sides are flat.
€ MOTORS: 2 x LEM130€™s at 36V = 18HP
€ LOCOMOTION: 4 x Wet Go-Kart wheels on top and bottom ala Big Nipper. The wheels are now 130mm in width each, giving better grip than before.
€ DIMENSIONS: (L) 60CM (W) 50CM (H) 15CM
€ COLOUR: Black for the armour, Silver for the exo-skeleton and crushing weapon. Now, on top, it has the name €˜AUTOISM 3.0€™ written in silver, vertically down the weapon.
€ WEAPONRY: The weapon is a Big Nipper style pair of horizontal crushers. The crushers are 1cm thick Titanium with several talon-like hooks built onto the claws, getting thinner towards the end so more force is applied. The weapon is a LEM130 at 48V powering a Vivoil pump with 2 x 100mm x 50mm rams at 3000psi, with a 2kg tank for storing the hydraulics, making 5000kg of force at the tips. The system can also be used to lift other robots up into the air, also with 5000kg of force at the tips. It can grab and lift and the same time.
€ SPEED: 15MPH
€ GROUND CLEARANCE: 0mm - 8mm. 4mm Titanium sprung skirts on the sides and rear make it a nightmare to get under.
€ STRENGTH: Power and Weapons make it a tough machine
€ WEAKNESS: Vulnerable to axe attacks, and also the thwackbots.
HEYGHT III
€ WEIGHT: 100kg.
€ ARMOUR: The armour is mounted on an ABC Chassis, with 3.25mm Hardox on flipper and 5mm Hardox for the rest, with a 6mm Titanium base plate. Inside, 2cm of Vulkanised Rubber is on the front, as well as 0.5cm PU foam on the sides and rear to protect it from shock-killing.
€ SHAPE: An invertible reversible wedge shape but with a box-type addition to the rear, like a mix between Envy and Maelstrom. All the sides are smoothed over as well to prevent side-stranding.
€ MOTORS: 2 x LEM130€™s at 36V = 18HP
€ LOCOMOTION: 4 Vulkanised Wheels, 60mm in width and 210mm in diameter.
€ DIMENSIONS: (L) 100CM (H) 20CM (Gets lower into the box part of the body) (W) 50CM
€ COLOUR: The body is black, with the name written in black on the silver flipper.
€ WEAPONRY: A C02 powered rear-hindged flipper made from 3.25mm Hardox, and powered a single non-attached (with the exception of bungees) 750psi 110mm pneumatic ram, coming from 2 x 1.5kg bottles, giving 30 flips overall. The ram is geared at 2.5:1, so the flipper produces 1400kg of force at the tips (can flip 100kg 7ft into the air. To help in getting under skirts, an extension is added to the front of the wedge. The flipper can self-right Heyght 3 in a 180* flip, but throws itself 0.5ft backwards and 2.5ft upwards.
€ SPEED: 20mph
€ GROUND CLEARANCE: 8mm all around, except for 0mm at the front, but it also has 6mm Titanium skirts held in place by 4mm Hardox hindges.
€ STRENGTH: Good armour and an awesome weapon.
€ WEAKNESS: Weak chassis and may be vulnerable to axes.
Could ppl suggest me improvements + stuff. They would be greatly apprechiated :D
On the fly at the moment, but for now all I'll say is that Aluminium Boron Carbide is not the best armour choice, as was once thought. (though Leo's reaction to it being overrated was funny, I was just thinking the same thing about titanium :) so... :proud: )
In my defense Kody, the weapons most likely the damage the armour are crushers/axes. Axes are very unaccurate (except in fan-fiction :lame: ) and there aren't that many crusher about at present. Spinners are gonna hit the Hardox chassis, and not the ABC armour so that's cool, and flippers can't damage me at all; just throw me OOTA and automatic win :lame:
I now await the response from the prosecution :lol:
I haven't done this for a while, so sorry about any errors...
Volcano
» I did a kinetic energy calculation for the disc myself and got an output of 100kJ+. Either I have calculated it wrong (which is likely), or you might want to tone the speed down. 1500rpm would be closer to the 50kJ you're looking for.
» Is the self-righting bar Ziggo style?
» I would estimate that the spinning disc would weigh at least 40kgs, so you might have to tone down the armour or something. Your base armour would probably be close to 30kgs itself, which seems a bit overkill. I don't know anything about Weldox, so I'll have to trust you on that one. :wink:
Supersonic
» The adjustable tyre pressure is a nice idea, but how does it work?
Autoism 4.0
» So the intention is for the chassis to take the damage rather than the armour? :P
» I don't think go-kart wheels that small exist.
» Should Autoism 4.0 be written on top, or is that a secret weapon? :wink:
» What powers the lifting mechanism?
Heyght III
» The shape is a little bit confusing, but that might just be me... 50cm wide seems a bit narrow as well.
» Either I have misunderstood, or your robot€™s height doesn€™t match up with your wheel diameter and ground clearance.
» Your flipping and self-righting calculations are... absolutely wonderful. :proud:
General Points
» S28-400 Magmotors might struggle on 36v according to Joey's motor table. He tells me that Fluffy used one at that voltage during RW7 and quickly burnt it out.
» I know I am guilty of it in the past (and maybe the present), but it's probably best not to state the number of flips you can theoretically get in a battle unless you have some sort of method of accurately calculating it.
» Overall, as usual, you have come up with some decent designs and good stats. Good job! :)
Thanx AJ, nice to get feedback.
About Volcano, the self-righter is on the disc: if you look at it side-on, you'll see this __[]__ (the bar won't be that tall, it's just the brackets lol :proud: ) It's basically so the weapon is the self-righter, and literally just spinning will right it. Kinda like the principle behind Tornado Mer.
As for the armour/weapon, I accept that and therefore shall make suitible changes.
With Supersonic, the adjustible tyres is literally the same as Tornado vs. Terrorhurtz where they just let air-pressure out of them to make them a bit lower.
Heyght is a bit hard to get your head around, but that's mostly gonna be down to my tarded wording and stuff. Just imagine Maelstrom, and make it sleaker, similar to Envy. The flipper power is quite easy to calculate, but how high it might flip a robot is based mainly off how high something like Iron Awe might flip it (it's the maximum height it's likely to flip it). I know that sounds lazy, but that's cos I am pretty much :/
You've understood the conception of Autoism fine about the armour and the chassis (the idea is that chassis is much harder to completely annihilate than armour, and it improves durability). The weapon is hydraulic, which I think it does say, if not, I'm sorry. With the name, it is a secret weapon yes :lame:
Thanx anyway. If stuff still makes no sense, just ask.
Hey guys, I've designed a new version of Equinox if anyone could give it a quick look over :)
Equinox II
BODY SHAPE: Wedge with coffin-style rear ala Cassius or Wild Thing, but with sloped sides and interchangeable rear plates. It has a set of 5 hinged spikes at the front of the wedge that are 20cm each long and made of tungsten carbide
WEIGHT: 100kg
DIMENSIONS (L X W X H): 85cm x 70cm x 40cm
COLOUR: Dark blue with purple chevrons on the sides, a demonic face on the wedge and a golden arm
LOCOMOTION: 2 x external wheels, each is 200mm in diameter and has vulkalon tyres for grip. They are mounted on a slant ala Tazbot for extra control. They are mounted on the sides of the rear of the machine, and are made of 8mm hardox with a thicker axle so that no spinners can damage them. There is also a castor in the front, internally mounted. This gives very good manoeuvrability, even superior to that of robots like Panic Attack.
GROUND CLEARANCE: 0 at the wedge, 10mm at sides and variable at the rear - 20mm with panel 1, 5mm with panel 2
DRIVE MOTORS: 2 x A28-400 magmotors run @ 24v
DRIVE BATTERIES: 2 x NiCad battlepacks at 24v in parallel
SPEED: 20mph, designed to be very fluidly controlled
TURNING CIRCLE: 0 metres
BODY ARMOUR: 7mm grade 5 titanium/vanadium 10% alloy monocoque. The rear panel is the removable one, as it is interchangeable. The first and primary panel is made of 6mm grade 5 titanium like the rest of the robot, but has two hoops ala Spawn Again to aid in self-righting. These hoops are made of tungsten carbide. The second panel is for use against spinners, and is scoop shaped, made of 10mm titanium
WEAPONRY: Running up the wedge are two strips of Mute-style barbs to ensnare opponents, and these work in unison with the main weapon. Running down the middle of the wedge is a hydraulic arm with a tungsten tipped claw on the end as well a serrated underside. This arm is worked by a vivoil pump, powered by a LEM-130 lynch motor @ 36v from A123 cells. It works at 2000psi, and is more for clamping and lifting than crushing. It's made of hardox and his 110cm long.
SRIMECH: The clamping arm can right the robot quickly with the first back panel, and should be able to with the second one also, but more slowly and could potentially be beached.
STRENGTHS: Excellent manouevrability, controllability and pushing power, versatile weaponry
THEME SONG: Ghost Of Days Gone By by Alter Bridge
NOTES: The original Equinox did well, but couldn't stand up to spinners. This revised design alters the body shape and ditches the lifting forks, hopefully it'll be more successful!
No particular problems, really, nice job Lewis. :)
Incidentally, I've been toying with the idea of redesigning Macduff the 5th. Ideas have come to me in the form of layers of carbon fibre armour, hydrostatic drive (Aaron, you there? would like to speak with you about this), complexly linked tracks, etc. But I'll post the stats here for all to see. :)
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k...duffThe5th.png
Macduff the 5th
Shape: Low box with a flat front, pointed sides (with removable skirts), and rounded rear.
Colour: Varying shades of blue, with silver-ish weapon attachments and skirt hinges, and the Scotland flag on top.
Weight: 100kg
Drive: 2 LEM130 Lynch motors run on 49.5 volts, geared 4.5:1 for better acceleration than previously.
Power: 5 packs each of 15 M1 A123 Lithium-Ion cells.
Motivation: 6WD; the wheel hubs are CNC aluminium and the tires are Storm 2-esque urethane rubber.
Speed: 15mph average; can get up to 30mph
Armour: 7.5mm Ti/V alloy, with extra 5mm Ti/V on the angled sides and rear. Side skirts are 5mm Grade 5 titanium. Weapon armour will be explained in said section.
Chassis: 5mm steel ladder
Ground Clearance: 0mm at the front with all set-ups except the drum, 15mm everywhere else.
Turning Circle: 0
Dimensions in CM (LxWxH): 100 x 80 x 15
Weaponry: Macduff has interchangeable weaponry. Set-ups are below:
SET-UP 1 - A pair of titanium lifting forks, diamond-tipped, powered by a lightweight linear actuator and can hoist 300kg. This makes Macduff's max weight about 97kg. Used against robots that attack with wedges, and bots that have skirts and low ground clearances. The main set-up.
SET-UP 2 - A 5mm Hardox wedge, powered by the same system. Makes Macduff's weight the full 100kg. Used against invertible FBSs.
SET-UP 3 - A angled, convex ramming bar made of 15mm Ti/V, built to withstand tough hits. Held in place with steel mounts, bulkheads, shock-padding, etc. Used against powerful, seemingly one-hit KO spinners. Removes the linear actuator but makes the full weight 100kg anyway.
SET-UP 4 - A small rear-hinged flipper made of 5mm Hardox, and powered by a 1.5kg CO2 tank and a 75mm x 50mm ram. Can flip over about 250kg and can right Macduff if needed, and has about 20 flips. Has a 5mm titanium 50cm long extension. Makes Macduff's weight about 99kg. Used if needed to tip over opponents quickly. A view of this set-up can be found here.
SET-UP 5 - A hardened steel spinning drum, ala Tornado, powered by a LEM130 Lynch motor at 36 volts. This removes the extra armouring on the sides and rear to accommodate the drum. The drum has two tungsten teeth to flip opponents quickly. The drum is 30cm wide, extrudes 15cm from the front, and is used against opponents with flipping arms, forks, and other attachments.
Srimech: Invertible with all set-ups, but SET-UP 4 can right Macduff.
Hello folks, ive been looking to improve one of my old bots, Druid, hope you can help me out here
Druid 3.0.
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Mortis in its Battlebots, season 2 guise, for those who dont know what it looked like, think Series 4 but with protective/anti wedge plates on the sides
Colour: Black at the front, and gold at the back.
Dimensions: 100cm x 80cm x 30cm
Drive: 4x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 5x 3000mAh NiCad Battlepacks
Locomotion: Mortis-style titanium tank tracks.
Armour: 6mm hardox
Speed: 18mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm at front and sides, 5mm at the rear.
Turning Circle: 0m
Weapon: The weapon is a full-pressure Co2 flipper running off of a fire extinguisher, using 2 70mm bore 90mm stroke rams. the flipper is not only the front wedge, but also the top of the robot.
It should flip about 750kg half a meter into the air.
Srimech: Flipper
Strengths: decent flipper, good traction and good armour all round
Weaknesses: Inexperienced, weak at the rear
Bio: Druid is dusted down and improved and is back once more
Win/Loss Ratio: N/A
Can't understand this thread, why would you need to upgrade these robots they must be worth thousands,
Droid has over £3000 worth of motors how can you afford that :?: and what speedo do you use ?
Heh...this is the fanfic board. These are all fictional robots, for whose who cannot afford to build a real fighting robot (currently or ever).Quote:
Originally Posted by terry
oh thats good, I was suddenly thinking how many upgrades I needed and that I would be in serious trouble
meeting some of them in the arena :lol:
might upgrade to lems though :)
*browsing ZED*
Lian, what pressure is Pyrrha's scoop running at? could you specify the pressure please? As I think you are understating the power of the scoop. (as I seem to have been doing for a while until Joey showed me the light, lol)
Wondering if Leo or Craig or anyone else browses these threads/boards anymore... advice time... :uhoh:
I'm still here.
Hi, im new here. This is my first vapour bot:
Bombard IV
http://gametechmods.com/../uploads/images/5434image.jpg
Shape: Wedge with sloped sides and angled back (so it leans back when it flips.)
Dimensions:100x70x30 cm
Weight: 100kg
Colour: See Pic
Wheels:2x custom wheels 150mm in diameter
Ground clearence:0 at front, 7mm at back.
Motors:2x A28-400 magmotors at 24v
Batteries:4 x 5000mAh Li-Pos
Speed:18 mph
Turning: 0
Armor:4mm hardox
Weapon:650psi CO2 flipper powered by a 250mm ram and a 3kg CO2 bottle.
Notes:Can self right
What do you think?
I'm assuming 4x 5000mAh instead of 500mAh? Apart from that, sounds nice.
Oh yeah. Oops.
thanks! :)
Where can i host my vapours?
Welcome to the forum, playzooki :)
Bombard IV looks fine to me, very good for a first vapourbot.
Most of us host our stats on the Vapourbot Resource forum. I see that you've already registered there, so I've set you up a board to post your stats in.
I hope that helps.
Thanks!