Speed controller and component locations

If it needed to go to the tail to actually drive, why do you think the tail will swing over if you drive into it and it is angled towards the ground? Surely you would just be digging some lines where your weapon is ratteling around infornt of you?

The TAIL trails behind ...the action of stopping the drive wheels causes the tail/weapon to arc over and strike the opponent in front.

but once its on the front and no longer on the smooth surface and now pointing downwards, wouldnt it then try to arc below the robot when you put it into forwards drive and make it catch on the arena floor? Im proberly wrong with this but its just my amatuer physics kinda annoying me.

JG.

No, if the weapon would try to push up the robot, youll lose traction, and therefore the force needed to trow the robot over the weapon.

With the weapon in front:-
The action of driving gently foward will cause the weapon to try to lift .....hard acceleration should make it whack back to behind the bot.
Theres an IF to go with the above.....
IF the balance between the weapon weight/length exceeds the ability of the motor drive torque to raise it ......then it will tend stay in front or behind.
EDIT:- Hard decceleration adds an extra inertia factor.

(Message edited by woody on May 02, 2007)

I see, interesting stuff Physics. And my english if getting much better with all this typing :). Last question, If I weld 2 gears on each end of the axle, would this be enough of a reference which would let the wheels turn instead of spinning uselessly?

JG.

(Message edited by woody on May 02, 2007)

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Please give any feedback, consturctive hopefully or otherwise.

JG.

Think about driving the wheels around the motor and batts or should you drive the wheel,batts motor etc around the axle?

(Message edited by woody on May 02, 2007)

I dont understand, do you mean mounting the equipment inside the wheel and not attacked to the wheel but the axle?