lol, i love how he is more interested in getting a good video than saving the robot :P
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lol, i love how he is more interested in getting a good video than saving the robot :P
Now we shall have reached the 100th page
EDIT: oh for crying out loud
Not yet, the third post after this one will make the 100th page :P
I got a message back from Hurricane's owner:
The sabretooths failure probably was not caused by itself, but all i can speak from is a theory on what happened as im not exactly sure on what caused it.
http://www.robowars.org/forum/viewtopic ... &start=165\
^^there are some pictures here
I believe that It happened because i didnt tighten down the battery strap enough, so that the bead of weld inside the shell (for balancing) hit it, as you can see from the small chunk missing in the strap, which caused it to impale and short out one of the a123 cells in my battery pack.
The sabretooth does have one design fault and that is that the large heatsink which it is mounted to is not isolated from the circuitboard. This of course causes problems when you have it connected to the chassis while an a123 battery pack is shorted to the chassis. This probably blew something which set the whole board on fire, which created enough heat to even melt the reciever a few centimetres away from it.
I have replacement parts currently on the way so it should be up and running soon hopefully :)
feel free to copy this to the FRA forum to put minds at ease
Hope this answered your questions
Regards
Luke Sullivan
Team Shred
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxmJXRlsksY
pretty cool design! do you guys think it would be possible to make a featherweight version? it would need some serious engineering to get right but it would be awsome :) possibly two linear actuators to pull the disk left/right to replace the servos on the small scale version? and would it qualify for the walker weight advantage? just wondering :talker:
jack
I'm not posting just to get the 100th page or anything, what a preposterous thought! :D
Have seen that video as well; gyroscopic procession is the technical name for it and it looks rather cool. But the last I heard, the RFL were re-writing the rules to remove GP robots from gaining a walker weight bonus, saying it's not a true walker.
I can sort of see their point about it not being a walker, but it's no wonder there are so few about. Every time someone comes up with something different the rules are subject to change to de-classify it unless it's a complete true walker. I thought the setup Anarchy used was very effective and was suitably walker-like to qualify for the full weight bonus but it just seems, from an observer's point of view, that because it wasn't slow and vulnerable like every other walker, that form of motive transmission was deemed to fall under the shuffling class (or whatever the correct name for it is) and no longer qualified for the full weight bonus allocation.
Ellis (Relentless) got the 100th page comment? you must pay. £25.40 please :)
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haha phonejacker :-)
who updates the http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki pages?
I update them, don't do it that much now, but im still there :)
And I disagree with them. It has 2 independent parts providing the walking motion, and is not a crankshaft driven device.Quote:
Originally Posted by k_c_r
I would agree with Leo on this.
First I would like to see the idea prove it gave an unfair advantage before action was taken, this could be a significant advance to the robot scene, so lets develop it.
Unless we are all happy with the armour plated snails like TRON (it's my robot :uhoh:) running around the place :mrgreen:
a 60lb hornet 3? Nice......
thanks for the comments guys :-)
also found this in my random interent surfing session :P http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-ea ... -20902155/
cool :)
jack
I have been following this guy's progress on his walker for a bit now.
After making Pilgrim, I know how frustrating walkers can be, remember if your not as crazy as him when you start, you will be when you finish :crazy:
I am looking forward to seeing his robot when it's finished.
yeah...iv been watching him since the beginning...learnt a lot...loled a lot :P
why guys don't do the washing :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=364dz...layer_embedded
yeah, Bre was awsome as the weekend project guy (not that Kipkay isnt or anything !) i think he's gone on to do the Makerbot cnc / 3d printer range now?
I don't know if you guys still watch Wipeout but they just added a bunch of paint to all the obstacles and makes everything all pretty and colorful. It's still no Double Dare though. :cry:
At last, some proper 'Robot Wars'... Full size RC armourd cars with real firepower! :shock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgBNkKGc ... r_embedded
I rather like the idea of a .50cal machine gun as an 'arena hazard' too! :twisted:
(I would like to see the FRA write up the arena guidlines for that!!!) :?
Why isn't there a tutorials section on the site? I'm sure there are people willing to take a few pictures of how they take apart a drill motor and assemble it to a frame, or, how to build a pnuematic axe or flipper, or whatever it might be.
It could really help some of the first timers, just wondering. :roll:
There is an australian robowars style wiki in planning apparently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Relentless
In the meantime, these may prove useful:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MartSard videos on here
The australian wiki
http://www.robowars.org/wikka/RobowarsWikka1
i did kinda touch on that here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3434Quote:
Originally Posted by Relentless
some people have contributed, and i aim to have my whole new mega seires of instructional guides up soon ^^
Looks similar what i did to my car ! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by geoff
one of the episodes:
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=GTNJVKKI
I SO WANT THIS CAR :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeN1O...feature=search
Looks like an aerodinamic washing machine. :lol:
The climate controls look as if they belong on a cooker or something :P
It's such a great shape :D
Quote:
Originally Posted by geoff
that looks like ALOT of fun! would love to do it
theres a film called death race which is kind of like that - pretty good film
looks like one of the cars is designed on one out the film
Is there anything wrong with the fact I had no clue England or Scotland were playing until I got in from my own football watching experience (at Pontefract Collieries)? :uhoh:
More like Scotland were struggling to overcome a team (the supposed group whipping boys) from a country 1/3 the size of the Isle of Arran whose entire population could fit inside our national stadium with 17,000 seats left over and needed until the 7th minute of injury time to grab a winner!Quote:
Scotland were playing
super joe hart got us £500000 friday night salop salop!!!
has anyone seen this before i found the shorter version last year but here is an extended version of king curtis from yankee wife swap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HQ0sfOC ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge9VfALt ... r_embedded