The jubilant and triumphant hij doet het ! you hear in the little movie comes from the builder Marco and means it works !
Ive never seen TAN land so squarely flat before.
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The jubilant and triumphant hij doet het ! you hear in the little movie comes from the builder Marco and means it works !
Ive never seen TAN land so squarely flat before.
Having seen the flip of it though was a pretty good one me thinks :)
That is one hell of a ram. Is there a build web page for Hades?
Latest pic of heavyweight on profile.
WOW looking good Gary ! Any specs for it so far ?
well the chassis will hopefully be just below 45kg so I could then enter it in middleweight contests aswell as heavyweight.
The etek will be removeable as will the weapon which will be mounted on the back. I plan on having a spinning disc (because i want one :)) and another 1 or 2 weapons. Side armour is 4mm hardox. Top 10mm polycarb and bottom 5mm ali.
Im hoping to run it from my own speedo although at the minute testing (once the chassis is complete) will be done from the vantec.
http://freespace.virgin.net/team.beam1/kennyvid.wmvhttp://freespace.virgin.net/team.beam1/kennyvid.wmv
flipper test
prefered the old one kenny seemed to be a better flipper
lol the bottles are about a quater to half full so more power coming
The pivot points could be moded to give a better flip, But the new one looks better :) proper boe !
(Message edited by turbine_driver on August 23, 2005)
Gary, Like your robot its looking good.
Question: When, where will you be able to use it?
I am currently building a spinner with a domed disk, pressed from 1/4 steel. I have stopped building at the moment because i cant see were i could play with it. Or are you hoping Robot Wars will return
Gabriel, to be honest I do not care if I cannot run it anywhere. I am building it because I want a spinner. I have designed it in such a way that the rear weapon pod can be removed easily and another weapon (axe or flipper) put in its place easily enough.
And if I can run it somewhere then, bonus! :)
Cool my thoughts exactly. I have only ever built spinners.
I think I will do a similar thing re interchanable parts, will your robot be able to self right.I am half way through, the self righting part of my robot raising the disc through 180 degrees the only problem being keeping the disc on a rigid base, dont want it to be weakned by the self righting part
gabriel, my philosophy is,
If you get flipped then your driving isnt good enough to be in the arena :)
quote:
If you need a schrimech, youre not a good driver and shouldnt be in robot wars in the first place. - Team Mace, RW series 2
Quite the irony, as it lost, getting flipped by Chaos 2, in the next series. I wouldnt exactly recommend tempting fate...
Gary; Typhoon was a fully rotating dome with downward facing teeth once spinning almost impossible to flip without being destroyed. I think more credit goes to design than driving ability in this case.Your new robot i tink will be vunerable to fliping no matter how well its driven
Gabriel, I have heard that comment so many times.
If anything I would say its the other way around. It may have been near impossible to flip once up to speed however getting anywhere near that speed was always the problem. The entire spinning cone was a blessing and a curse at the same time.
Gabriel I think I will do a similar thing re interchanable parts,
i have interchangeable parts :) called 2 x c02 bottles (lol)
The Typhoon series were excellent machines but they had certain vulnerabilities which with time would have been constantly exploited.
If a Typhoon was hit ABOVE the cutters then it would go flying without causing damage to the attacker.
No robot is perfect and any series winner needs a little luck (as well as an excellent robot) to win. In series 7, Typhoon did well to avoid robots like Bigger Brother and Stinger, whose weaponry would not have suited Typhoon.
The higher speeds of the newer heavyweights mean that Typhoon would have even less time to get up to speed and get hit a lot harder by more heavily armoured opponents. The 10 mph or so of series 7 robots is often now 20 mph of the current live circuit machines.
Gary you stated
If you get flipped then your driving isnt good enough to be in the arena
What i am trying to say is no matter how good a driver you are a flipper will almost always be able to get underneath you. Especially as your new disc will probaly be at least 5cm off the ground. One flip and you are gone, I would add that a schrimech is essential for a good long lasting fight
In a melee, even the best driver can get caught out.
Anyone fancy adding themselves to a global database of builders?
http://www.frappr.com/combatrobotbuildershttp://www.frappr.com/combatrobotbuilders
How long does it take to show up on the map?
i did right after i registrated :)
Hmmmmmmmmm.....it wouldnt accept Pillows hometown of Nutley so I had to settle for Uckfield :angry:
lol craigs pic
http://www.frappr.com/combatrobotbuilders/photo/324756http://www.frappr.com/combatrobotbuilders/photo/324756
you gotta like that for a feather :)
http://www.frappr.com/combatrobotbuilders/photo/160915
(Message edited by teamkenny on November 11, 2005)
lol... crazy :)
hmm ive got 2 spare eteks soon... hmmm me thinks a cluster bot lol
Name: Stratos-Fear
Amour: 3.2mm, 4mm Hardox And Polypro
Drive: S28-400 Magmotors
Power: 9Ah High Discharge slas
Control: 36v IFI Victor HVs
Weapon: Full pressure flipper : 100mm bore ram fed by 3 burkert inlets fed by 2kg buffer tank from 2 x 2kg co2 bottles
latest pics on profile
hopefully ready for robotslive
hmmm me thinks a cluster bot lol
nay, try a heavy :),
oh wait, we are aready trying.
Lets try to get this one under 100kg!
Just re-plumbed Turbulences Pneumatics and its scarey for a LP bot. should be over 200% better then it was at robotslive. Hope to get some more people oota at worcester :)
Just done a test of Turbulences new setup, Managed to through an old heavyweight chassis (40kg, similar in shape to Tornado) relatively high. Picture on profile:).
Any flipper that can get a robot OOTA is good, why do you have to keep improving it. All it does is give other robots less Arena time :)
sorry BNip
but i have been going backwards
but getting there (1 day )
Hannibal has been rebuilt after its last encounter with Kan-opener. We took the opportunity to lower the frame a bit and replace its flipperarm.
Pic on profile.
Latest pic of swarm on profile now.
Just in the process of machining the wheel box units. Disc is soon to be laser cut (20mm thick, 70cm dia, 1500rpm). The weight of it is sitting at 130lb.
Aiming to have it complete for the UK champs in August. I am also hoping to create a number of different weapons for the rear so that I can enter it in other events.
Couple of questions:
1. Just the two wheels?
2. (If above) four motors for the two wheels?
3. Will horizontal spinner stick out from Etek side?
4. Still on for a vert too?
:)
1) Yup 2 wheels
2) yup 2 motors per wheel
3) There will be an A-Frame at the rear similar to hornet
4) Not this time around but once the disc is machined, dont see why not!
I wanted to directly scale up hornet into a heavyweight. I decided on 2 wheels so that the robot can pivot when it hits an opponent etc, hopefully reducing the shock to the internals. The chassis is not designed as a rammer, just a delivery system for the weapon.
Looks great actually to me.
Anyone fancy helping with my heavy project when I get it going? Once Rhys finds me the bits Im after.