Pussycat Tribute Tournament 5

and here is my final heavyweight, Lightweight and Super Heavyweight wil be entered by Dave (W)

Name - Axe to Fall
Weight - 100 Kilogram
Speed - 24 km/h (15 mph)
Dimensions - 115x80x40 cm
Ground Clearance - 0 at the front, 2 mm anywhere else
Power - 2x LEM130s at 48v
Movement - Four wheels, 10cm diameter
Weaponry - The main weapon is a 5 kg double-headed axe on top of the machine, it€™s a steel 80 cm shaft with two diamond edged blades made of hardox on the end of it. The blade which aims to the front of the machine is shaped like Steel Avengers axe, to make fine and deep slices in opposing armor, the other one is shaped more like Terrorhurtz€™ in order to make more nasty broad slices in opposing armor.
The whole axe is powered by 2 nitrogen bottles at 1000 psi, a 1 kg buffer bottle and a 30 mm bore ram, for fast and furious hits, with a downforce of 1.5 ton brought onto a fine blade, and an energy unleash which seems significantly higher than for example Beta€™s if my calculations are right.
-At the front of Axe to Fall is a small wedge/ram made out of 8 mm Titanium, to lift my opponent€™s wheels into air while clobbering them with my Steel Avenger-style blade, or perhaps even to grab him. This ram is also my plan B if my axe fails in battle, just ram them hard :D.
Armour - 10 mm Aluminium chassis, 8 mm Titanium front and 15 mm polycarb for the rest of the bot.
There are also two small blocks of vulcanized rubber on the mid-front and the mid-back of my machine, to absorb the downforce where the axe hits the chassis.
Shape - Basically it€™s a 80x80x20 box, with a curve on top of it (making it look like an old pirates-style treasure chest actually). There are two small polycarb domes on both sides so my bot won€™t end up on it€™s side. On front is a small wedge.
Srimech- The axe acts as a srimech, thanks to the curved shape of the top my bot can self right in no time, even if it has to self right over the wedged front (the wedge is very small mind you).

Power: Very destructive axe that will both hit at the front and the back, fast srimech and an nearly indestructible front
Weakness: A powerful spinner might eat my polycarb, not the fastest bot on the block.


btw, if anyone wants to see renders of my bots, feel free to ask, I have them stored on my pc atm and Im pretty sure theyll make my descriptions alot more understandable

I have designed a new robot to enter PTT5. This robot will take over from Sonic Boom.

Name: Quake
Weight: 100kg
Armour: 4mm Titanium/Vanadium alloy
Speed: 18mph
Shape: Low invertible box with a set of pincers on the front, a lot like Big Nipper.
Weapon 1: A cam powered shaker, designed to shake the electronics of the opponents loose. The shaker can also lift robots into the air.
Strengths: Unique weaponry. Good manoeuvrability and pushing power.
Weaknesses: Not sure on effectiveness of weaponry. High ground clearance all over.
Ground Clearance: 7mm all over
Srimech: Invertible
Notes: The robot is powered by 2 S28-400 MagMotors running at 24v, which gives 18mph top speed. The two front wheels are joined to the two back wheels by a heavy duty rubber belt, giving good manoeuvrability and pushing power. The armouring is 4mm Ti/V alloy panelling, which a 12mm thick Aluminium box chassis. The pincers on the front of the robot are powered by low pressure hydraulics, and are designed to clamp a robot, and not specifically damage them. The damage comes from the cam powered shaker, from which the design has been taken from the Model 4800 Tree Shaker, seen in an episode of Mean Machines. The way this causes damage is by using the cam to send the pincers shaking side to side very VERY quickly, a very short distance (only 1 inch each way). The momentum generated and the force of the shaking should cause some electronics or the removable link in a competitor to fall out or loosen. Also, the fact we can lift a robot in the air means we can carry them anywhere in the arena, whilst shaking them.

Any queries about this design, dont be afraid to ask me on MSN or here in the forum.

Thats a cool design, a robot that picks up another and throttles it :)

Its a good weapon, the first time I have seen one used to damage robots instead of vibrate skirts to get underneath.

Dan, has it got variable frequency, so you can change the speed of the hits to find the resonance frequency of the robot to cause more damage to it.

Its a shame the person who actually designed the weapon on Dans robot isnt getting the praise foor it.

Who designed it ?

1) Do you know how heavy this mechanism is?
2) You have no information on the crusher or lifter
3) I doubt the lift and shake would work
4) I doubt it could shake out the electronics
5) How do you stop it shocking itself out?
6) On an unrelated note, Im getting quite fed up with all the informtion being put in the Notes area now. I think you should rename it Stats instead.
7) I understand you copied the idea from Martyn, and Ive noticed its the not the first design in progress you have cloned either...
8) Yes, I am back in rant mode!

Just my 2p...

1) The mechanism is not heavy at all. It is basically a lifter/crusher similar to Big Nipper , but with a cam added so it can shake a robot to death.

2) As stated, the crusher is powered by low pressure pneumatics. My fault there is no info added on the lifter. The lifter is powered by a heavily geared PERM 080 running at 24v.

3) It works in real life...

4) Who says? If it can shake with enough severity it IS possible.

5) As stated in the stats, the shaker only moves a total of 1 inch each way. This means that the momentum is concentrated to a short distance.

6) I will lay my stats out any way I bloody want.

7) I didnt copy it from Martyn at all. As stated in the stats, the concept originated from a machine on Mean Machines. The link to see a picture of the machine can be seen at the bottom of the page. I didnt know Martyn even thought about this design. Also, isnt Psyclonic just a clone of lots of other FBS out there? And what about Biohaz... I mean The Nose? Id watch what you are trying to say here. Andy, cos I can break you very VERY easily.

8) I am also in rant mode. No one has a right to tell me how to lay my stats out. If you dont like it, then tough shit.

Link to Model 4800 Tree Shaker: http://www.aghinc.com/tree.htmlhttp://www.aghinc.com/tree.html

*starts to cry*

When did we all become so mean?! Whys this tourney such a jinx before it even begins?! :sad:

*sniff* Oh, and stats still needed from Aaron K, Tom R, Matty F, Frank G (SHW), Alex H and Dave W (SHW). I go on holiday a week on Monday, so PLEASE get going, lads.

Just in for a quick moment after Steven caught me on MSN.

Quake is possble. But it is one of those designs where making it possible makes lower grade. Its like the robot Alcoholic Stepfather (Omni bot version). They spent soo much weight into making the omni drive survive combat and have an awesome manuverability that it has minimal weight for armour.

If anyone has seen it at the last major US event, AS was retired by spinner Mega Byte with minimal effort. I would place Quake in the same catagory.

I do agree with AJ about people saying they have something but dont explain about it. Example: 1 tonne crusher.... Is it Hydraulic, Pneumatic, Electric? What weight is spent into this? Its just so open, the writer can assume anything that is right or wrong.

Dave is right, Aussies got there asses kick in Cricket... Dont know what they were doing, but it just wasnt cricket. I also agree with the mega HP pushers. But I believe instead of making them go faster, make them go slower. Torque and traction will help acceleration, which is what a lot of our vapourbots are missing when they are geared for 20+MPH.

Damn this is becoming a rant :sad: Anyway. Lets just help Stevo get this show on the road.

1) Isnt Big Nipper 100kgs as it is?
2) Thanks for clearing that up, but I agree with Aaron, you still havent stated the PSI for the crusher for example, which leaves it very open.
3) By this I meant is it possible to successfully lift an opponent and shake them without losing grip? With the ammount of vapourbots covered in Hardox or thick Titanium these days it would be hard to crush.
4) OK, fair point, but we assume everything is carefully mounted in vapourbots.
5) Thanks for clearing that up. But still, there would be quite a lot of pressure on the arm and crushers. Think about it, 100kgs swaying side to side.
6) Sorry, I didnt put this how I intended. I was just pointing out that it was quite hard for me to pull the information out about the mechanisms because it was in a clump with other information.
7) Ill leave Martyn to tell you what he has told me.
8) Yes, Psyclonic is the same as all other FBSs. But the point is this design has already been proven, see below for more info.
9) The Nose is actually an originally designed robot designed to get under FBSs and flip them without them comming in contact with the body. Somehow I managed to release its stats before someone copied my ideas, again, see below.
10) My point is it seems you have copied Martyns idea for The Deer, and I also seem to remeber you copied my idea for The Deflesher last season. Unlike Psyclone, I didnt nick someones design before they had released it after hearing about it and then taking all the credit.
11) I also agree with what Aaron has said about rammer speeds, check the most recent FP versions, they have all been slowed down.
12) Apologies once again to Dan, Steve and the rest of you for causing trouble.

Not getting involved in this, except to say Martyn told me about his lastest idea for The Deer several months back and they are extremely similar.

Oh yeah, both Andy AND Dan were beaten to the Deflesher idea several years ago by a Vapourbot called Tha Ripper. You both lose :P

Also, sorry for forgetting the superheavy. Ill knock up something basic this weekend.

Im working on a FBS called St Lucifer, stats should be up very soon

I need to get some stats up. Maybe this weekend.

The stats should be around here somewhere if you cant be bothered to wait, but...

-Octopush 2s stats may need revising.

-Crash Bandibot 2s stats DEFINATLY need revising.

OK, here are Ram-Raiders stats.

NAME: Ram-Raider.
Motto: THERES NO SUCH COLOUR AS GREENISH PURPLE!!!*
Weight: 30 kilos
Body Shape: A bit like 101 without the tracks.
Speed: 23mph
TC:0
GC: 1mm all round
Wheels: 2 sets of Banks. In other words, its a shuffler.
Armour: 3mm aluminium
Power: I dont know what a suitable power source for a featherweight would be. Could someone offer any helpful suggestions?
Colour: Green on one side, Purple on the other. Its motto is written on both sides.
Weapons: A horizontal saw blade powered by its own motor (again, advise would be nice) is the active weapon, but its own brute force provides the main weapon.
Srimech: The robot can run inverted. You could TRY to side strand it, but it has ears to prevent this.
Notes: Has a build in tape recorder (like Suicidal Tendencies had that steam engine whistle). It only says its motto (see above). This is to annoy the opposition.
Strengths:Brute power.
Weaknessess: Weakish armour, can get annoying.

*If you value your sanity, you wont ask. If you read The Cut-Throat Celts from the Horrible History collection, you wont need to ask.

Hacked off Ha-ka

Weight- 89.4kg- (WDOR)
Dimensions- H- 40cm, L- 1m, W- 70cm
Speed- 13.3mph or 5.3 m/s
Shape- 2 x 35 degree wedges about 40cm long, with a 3ocm box section in the middle.
Locomotion- 4x Solid aluminium hubs with old karting wets around it
Ground Clearance- 1mm at sides, 3mm at rear, 0 at front
Turning Circle- 0
Power- 4x Dustin motors running on 36V powered by 3 TMC 36V batteries/ They produce a total of 8.84BHp
Armour- 5mm Aluminium Boron Carbide
Weapon 1- A larger hammer than before weighing 11.5kg. It runs off some very nice 1000psi nitrogen rams, and produces around 4 tonnes at the beginning and about 2.7 towards the end. At the beginning I€™d say it€™d cut through 8mm titanium in 2 or 3 swift hits. It€™s double sided, with one Terrorhurtz style blade, and one Mortis one.
Weapon 2- A small strip of ti/vanadium alloy that should enable each wedge to slide under easier
Removable Link Position- Under a small 6mm steel electromagnetically secured panel at the back of the robot.
Srimech- invertible, but the axe will right it if necessary due to the fact that the head is angled back into a hole, which keeps the head inside the body.
Strengths- Powerful weaponry, Manouvreable, good acceleration, well armoured
Weaknesses- Not the best pushing power, limited CO2.

Roo Cubed

Weight- 97.8kg (Weight distribution available on request)
Dimensions- H- 17.5cm D- 130cm
Speed- 15mph in driving speed.
Shape- Low wide cylinder. This time though, the ends go slightly into curved wedge mode by abut 2cm. At this point, the ring armour narrows down to about 4mm titanium.
Ground Clearance- Around 5.5mm
Turning Circle- 0
Armour- 2mm titanium over 2mm Polypropylene over another layer of 2mm titanium.
Locomotion- 4-x air filled tyres with expansive hole-filling mousse inserted in order to prevent puncturing.
Power- 4 x S28-150 Magmotors running at 24V off 2 packs of 24v Nicads. This produces 12BHp as well as only weighing a total of 13kg.
Removable Link- In the very centre of the machine. Positioned so few axes will have heads powerful nor long enough to reach it, whilst the shafts must be long and this will reduce their accuracy.
Weapon- A 38kg, titanium ring around the outside of the machine with 8x 4-inch long steel teeth with a chamfered triangular design in order to maximize damage. It€™s powered by a LEM-170 geared down by 5:2 giving out an output speed of 1286.4rpm. With a reasonably high horse power motor spinning it, and a low yet deadly top speed, it should get up to speed in around 2.8 seconds and has an output of 159Kj. It€™s 1cm thick as well so should withstand a good battering.
Srimech- Invertible
Strong against- Everything really.
Weak against- Very quick rammers, Me:proud:
Robot Most Compared to- Gyrobot?
House Robot Most Feared- Probably Growler
Strengths- Destructive, Invertible, Nippy, Well Armoured
Weaknesses- we€™ll add those as we find them out. The only one I can think of is that the armour may be vulnerable to axes. Has a tendenc yot be slightly unbalanced

Chris, Im asking about the motto cos my sanity is far gone anyway :p

Back in the time of the Celts, they had a compass made up of colours. Black, for example, was North, and White was South.

In the Horrible History book The Cut-Throat Celts, there were some games putting said compass to use. There was a picture of an extremely annoyed person collapsed over a bunch of chairs yelling THERES NO SUCH COLOUR AS GREENISH-PURPLE! (Purple was East, and I think green was south-west). It was so funny, I had to use it.

Powerpoint The Thrasher 5 (PTT5)

Weight- 91.2kg (WDOR)
Dimensions- L- 60cm, W- 90cm, H- 28cm
Speed- 16.7mph, 7.5m/s
Shape- resembles a spanner, with the tightening bits at the side.
Ground Clearance- Not too big, but not tiny either, probably around 4mm
Turning circle- Minimal, if not nil
Armour- 1cm Grade 5 titanium all over, weighing a total of 38.88156kg
Power- 12 x 2480mAh, Apogee Lithium Polymer batteries, running at 11.1V each, but run in series to crank it up to a limit of just 24V as this is all we need and they weigh a total of just 1.86kg. They power 2 PERM-PMG-080€™s running at 24V and weigh a total of 6.1818182kg and produce 7.9BHp. The motors are geared down at a ratio of 14:1
Locomotion- We€™re using wheels from off-road skateboards for the main powered central reasons, and then we have 8 wheels from normal skateboards mounted on all corners top and bottom for extra stability.
Removable Link- The removable link is in the centre of the top of the machine, directly above the weapon.
Weapon- In the centre of the spanner form, there is a 50cm diameter horizontal disc, running off 2 x LEM 130€™s running on a reduced gearing to just 2000RPM . This will produce just over 10Kj, but the numerous little teeth on the outside (about 250 of them) will constantly chew at the surface. The whole disc is made of 1cm titanium and weighs just 9.2kg.
Srimech- Invertible
Strengths- Invertible, Nippy, Hard To Get Hold Of
Weaknesses- Slightly tricky to drive, Weapon will not damage thick armour

On a school comp cos a certain person on this forum sent a virus to me. I knew nothing about Martyns design.

surley you are on the school computer cause you are at school, anyway you did cause i told you about it on msn and i can prove it.

*decides to drop by to give his thoughts about a subject called originality*

originality is scarce people, it is, 99,99% of everything we do, wether it is on school, at home, or while designing vapourbots, has been done before, really.
We basically use the same armours, the same movement type, the same engines and the same weapons. Almost every single FBS looks like every other FBS, cause theyre so bloody well-tested during the past years of roboteering... using ideas which have proven their worthy in the past isnt that bad at all, it might not be very original, so what?
Every single bot which can put up a good fight gains my respect...
Then there are the original machines, I highly respect a truly original bot, such as Alex Blizzard, and Ill respect them alot more when they can put up a good fight. And guess what happen when they do so, people will use that idea and itll lose its originality, except for the original which will always be original, cause trust me, when Blizzard gets his first good Tournament result, there WILL be other screwbots, and I dont think thats much of a problem at all, cause really, EVERY SINGLE APPROVEN CONCEPT HAS BEEN COPIED (and modified)

for this sole reason, there ARE vapourbots which look an awfully lot like Razer, Biohazard, Beta etc, cause theyre approven, even though it hugely lacks originality...

Originality is beatiful, it really is, but using approved concepts isnt bad at all, cause lets face it, isnt that what we do all day?

when it comes to Dan and Martyn, I havent got a clue whos wrong or right, but I really think anyone is free to use a tree shaker on his vapourbot, although Martyn does deserve credit IF hes the one who told this idea to Dan...

I also agree with Aron btw, the tree shaker might look good on paper, but it might take so much effort to build that the bot behind it might lack lotsa power and armour, o well...

Dudes, we ever gonna stop this beyatching and actually fight? Save it for the arena.

thats actually what I meant :proud:

*gives Martijn one hell of a round of aplause*

a certain person on this forum sent a virus to me

I hope that wasnt aimed at me either...

All my bots are now present and correct on my site.

Also I thank you for the completement Martijn, I do make an effort to try and make my creations interesting. Much to most peoples annoyance, it look me 3 tournies before the spinner ring sank in properly...

lol, I can tell you put effort in your designs Alex, the last few days I spend lotsa time reading bout other peoples vapours, to prepare for my all out comeback in vapourrobotering, I actually understood how the spinner ring would work the moment I read about it, its a fun gadget to absorb the kinetic energy unleashed by any horizontal spinner

Very nice speech Mr Martijn :)

Alex has huge amounts of originality on tap, some good(Baldur), some not(Ice Armour Robot), but everyone has a shocker of a bot now an again (Gyrate for me :sad:)

I remember back in the ole days of vapourbots, when every person had wheeled robots. I believe I was one of the very first people to start mass producing walkers in my entries :P Caused a lot of bitching and stuff. I also brought out Flea, a robot that jumped to evade the opponent. Was a simple box shaped rammer covered in rubber, but it was unique :-P

I try to be creative with technology. MDU was revolutionary in a certain respective. Sure, the FBS had been done before in the form of Gyrobot, but I tried the idea of going a walker design and using the extra weight to allow me the use of a Gas Turbine for the weapon power, which eventually got banned in some tourneys....:proud:

Sure MDU was the same boring cylindrical shaped FBS ring spinner, but the inner parts and technology was what made it different and original at the time. MDU 3 is based on the unique design of Y-Pout, similar shape, three wheels, three etek motors..... But I changed the controlling technology behind it to a similar system to Cyclone bot and added some stuff I had used before, like the variable drive train. Modifying what someone had already made has enabled me to make something unique in another area.

To sum it up, originality comes out in a number of forms. People I give credit to for some original designs are Nick, Steven, Alex, Matty Haka and Tom Roper, there are a few more of you, but this is just off the top of my head

The whole meaning of this post..... I forgot :proud:

Ill agree to those. Most of my designs arent exactly original, but they still do their job well.

I added the player on Ram-Raider because I wanted it to be different. That, and I will crush you had lost it somewhere.

Virtually every idea has been done at least once, if not on the FRA forum, on the old Robot Wars Forum or on the old Panic Attack Forum. There is a finite number of weapons you can have on a robot, and we are getting near that number.

In terms of the Daniel vs. Martyn weapon stolen case, according to the good old history books of business, Daniel acted before Martyn, even though Martyn had the design on his computer, he didnt lets say patent it, and so Daniel comes along, probably knowing about Martyns design, but he posted it first and should get all the credit. (Well, looking at the woobler weapon itself, isnt truly new, because Chalkie 3G has an option for one to get under skirts, but thats not truly orginal)

The same happened with the old old crap circle of life with its loose ring to stop spinner attacks, but I forgot about it until revising the design.

So, the point of this post is...

...Eat Pie:)

Woo, 800th post

That ice armoured robot never happened you hear me! lol

You mean Heart of Skandi? Even if it didnt work, it was extremely cool:proud:

What was it?

Hey Hey, Im Dazed and Confused, here is HHISTWT to replace one of my machines.

Name - HHISTWT
Shorten Name - Hey Hey

Shape - Low dome, spinning bar, crown top

Weapon - Simple spinning bar, angled downwards at the ends to hit those 8 cm robots, but the tips at their lowest point is 6 cm, the bar spins about 1300 rpm, and is geared to be torquy. The power source is an IC engine from a Flymo Lawnmower, giving 4.5 horsepower with high torque and bullet proof construction. I will give more details on the IC engine if needed. The only change to it, is the removable of the petrol tank to a more suitable location, and oil seals so it can run upside down if needed, and replacing the pull-start is an electric-start I nicked from a larger lawnmower. Direct drive with heavy-duty clutch to drop power if needed. The engine is sitting above the bar (like Amp)

Armour - It has a steel inner-ladder chassis framework, where everything inside the main dome is bolted/welded to. There are some lead-weights to counter-act the weight at the top to create a low centre of mass. The underside is 3mm steel. The dome is ABS plastic formed, with 3mm ABS plastic, with added wood ash into the mix before it set, creating a strongish shell, but not that strong. The bar itself weighs 22kg, with a 3 kg counter-balance in the centre to create a virtually uniform bar. The crown on top is designed to stop axes and crushers, and is lots of thin titanium strips layer on top of each other to make it very hard to break though. the advantage of this is the self-righter as well.

Ground Clearance - The bars lowest point is 5cm, so all around the robot is a 4 degree skirt, adding like a wedge. The skirt is removable for a standard 15 degree skirt, for those annoying machines. Under the main body is a good 9mm ground clearance.

Drive System - The robot is small and compact, because under that ABS shell, lies the drive system from Chalkie 3G, pushed together some more to create 8 wheel drive from 4 motors. This system gives a good speed and acceleration, but thanks to the small wheels, crap torque. Everything is cooled using a PC style cooling system.

Self-righter - The crown gives a roll-over shape and stops the robot from landing on its side. If the robot lands right onto its top, the crown crushes under the force after 5 seconds, and it rolls onto its side, where it should come back onto its wheels.

Velocity, Acceleration - 20 mph top speed, gets their within 2 metres.

Tyres - Sticky solid rubber tyres and steel wheels. Can run without rubber. There is one motor for two wheels, which are linked like a cars brake system, so if one motor goes it still has equal number of wheels moving on one side.

Weight - Dont Ask me about weight, I have no idea on what it will weigh.

Summary - Nothing New, Old-school technology, torque spinning bar. Based loosly on the American Amp in terms of its overall design. The Flymo lawnmower I stole the motor from never failed, and the engine restanded stone hit after stone hit. It runs at a higher power to turn the heavier bar. Its simple bread and butter.

Advantages - Torque from engine giving enough torque to the bar to keep spinning no-matter what it hits. Low centre of mass thanks to blocks of lead.

Disadvantages - Where should I start? - The horsepower from the engine is low, the drive system has low torque to push back, but high traction due to the grippy tyres. The body shell and crown are strong, but not that strong.

Hopefully Hey Hey is okay, I was bored during an exam and penciled a design on some extra-paper.

Id tell you, but then Alex would have to kill me. OK, hes probably planning on doing that anyway, but I see no reason to give him incentive to accelerate said plans.

A few things I forgot to say.

Hey Hey is replacing Wafty in the heavyweights.

Before Toni (:proud:) picks up a fuss about it being a semi-clone of Amp, I have ask permission from Paul^2 and he says I can use the basic idea of motor on top, spinning bit in middle, small and compact chassis.

and Frank drinks a lot of coffee :proud:

Y damnit!
Also, why should I give a care if its based off of amp? For the eitheenbajelienth time, im gone from ARC.

The Amp design is just a rip off of GreenWave, ICEWave(http://www.buildersdb.com/botpics/2391.jpghttp://www.buildersdb.com/botpics/2391.jpg) and Lumber Jack :proud:

So why ask for permission from someone else who already ripped the design :proud:

Im posting this for Steve for Aaron. Right.

Fragmentor

Motivation: 2WD
Speed: 15MPH
Weight: 100kg
Height: 200mm
Length: 650mm
Width: 750mm
Weapon: 15kg Flywheel powered by a Honda CR125 Motorbike motor. The CR125 motor produces 42.3BHP @ 11500rpm, it also has a HTI 220w 12v geared starter motor attached. The flywheel spins at 4500rpm producing 80Kj€™s of kinetic energy, plenty to dint and tear small pieces out of Hardox, rip holes in titanium and carve aluminium like paper. Spins up to full speed in under 3 secs, plenty of time to spin up between attacks.
Drive: 2 x Lemco 130 motors under volted at 24v to produce a zippy and moderately torque filled drive.
Batteries: 24v @ 6amp NiCD Packs
Armour: 4mm Hardox 400 on the sides/front/back, 8mm Titanium on the top and bottom and 15mm Polycarb internal bulk heads
Notes: Extra heavy mega duty shock proofing against it€™s own weapon. Uses a Gyro to stabilise the drive. Invertible.

Advantages: Fast drive, powerful weapon, moderate armour and well controlled

Disadvantages: Not a mega pushy bot, spins like Warhead when it hits an opponent.

Gyrate

Shape: Wedge with sloped sides, ala Wee Willy Wedgie
Motivation: 2 inner wheels
Speed: 50MPH
Weight: 100kg
Height: 250mm
Length: 550mm
Width: 650mm
Weapon: Static Wedge, a thwack tail on the end with a 5lb hammer
Drive: 2 x Eteks on 48v geared 4:1
Batteries: 160 x 3600mAh NiCD cells making 48v @ 12amps
Armour: 8mm Stainless Steel...... oooohhhhh Shiny!

Intensity

Motivation: Wheeled
Speed: Low gearing @ 12.889KMH(7.8MPH), High gearing @ 53.69KMH(33.55MPH)
Weight: 96.10kg
Height: 95mm
Length: 840mm
Width: 915mm
Ground Clearance: 8mm under body, 0mm all the way around due to Hardox skirting
Weapon: The weapon is based on the Team Whyachis Red Square which is a torque spring tensioned and suddenly released with a coupling to a flipping mechanism. The torque spring method used in Intensity is much more simpler and more reliable then the one used in Red Square. The mechanism is two S28-150 Magmotors @ 36v geared 100:1 through a single stage 3:1 spur gearing which is connected to a dual stage planetary gearbox which turns the final output helix spline shaft to retract and tension the spring. To lock the spring, a solinoid locking rachet has been built into the final stage of the planetary gearbox, which holds the spring tensioned till the solinoid is activated and releases the hold on the helix spline thread allowing it to unspool and fire the flipper. The torque is very heafty and with the flipping ratios will flip with a final force of 450kg, enough to send a 100kg robot head over heals quickly. The flipper takes 1.4 seconds to rectract and be ready for a second shot.
Drive: The drive consists of 8 Dustin motors. Each motor is over volted to 36v which produces 2.26HP per motor. Due to running the higher voltage, the motors have been current limited to 120amps which reduces the motors to 1.5HP each, producing a significant 12HP combined. The Dustin motors based upon the Dewalt Hammerdrills have a two speed gearbox, a low gearing of 51:1 which will make travel at a slow but high torque 12.88KMH(7.8MPH) which is enough torque to push the best of pushybots, in the high gearing of 11:1 will boost Intensity up to landspeed record of 53.69KMH(33.1MPH) with a loss in torque in pushing, but will still have the power to push most bots around running on basic Magmotor drives and Bosch setups.
Batteries: 8 x 18v 3600mAh NiCD Battlepacks producing 26v @ 14400mAh supply (Enough for 10mins of solid driving, plus weapon activation)
Monocoque (Chassis/Armour): The monocoque (chassis & armour combined) is a fully welded Hardox 500 5mm chassis (base plate is Hardox 450 3.2mm to maintain ground clearance). The top covers are bolted in using a series of 12 M14 bolts per top plate. This monocoque is designed to take a pound from the sides, above and even below! This is the heaviest part of the robot, due to the extreme strength and protection in the construction.
Electronics: Runs a RoboWars.org BMC speed controller with Hitec Focus SS-3 75mhz PCM 3ch Radio and a 3-axis computer Gyro for maxium control and handling. Uses 150amp rated Anderson power pole connectors and locking pins. Electronics are shock mounted and mounting in a floating style encased in HD (High Density) foam.
Notes: Can selfright via the torque spring flipper. Invertible!

Weight Distribution:

Batteries = 9.6kg
Drive Motors = 10.4kg
Wheels = 2kg
Magmotors = 3.6kg
Spring Mechanism = 12kg
Monocoque = 42.68kg
Electronics = 2kg
Flipper Plate & Supports = 8.5kg
NutsnBolts + Others = 6kg

Total = 96.10kg

Mass Disctruction Ultimate 3

Motivation: Wheels
Speed: 12MPH (480MPH Tip Speed)
Weight: 100kg
Height: 250mm
Diameter: 800mm
Weapon: The robot itself is the weapon. It uses its drive and a custom made micro processor system similar to that used in a fellow translational spinner called Cyclone Bot to translate itself around the arena creating a €œVortex of Destruction€. Using 9 Hardox €œenlightened€ teeth, it tears its opponent to pieces when the teeth collide at a sub-sonic speed of 480MPH. Causing certain death to the opponent.
Drive: 3 x Briggs & Stratton Eteks running on 60v. The motors are protected with a current limiting circuit and a thermal protection system which will ensure the motors don€™t over heat. The drive system uses a unique variable drive system with load sensing technology which enables the robot to start rotating with a high gear ratio preset at 5:1 giving the motors high torque low speed. As the robot gains rpm, which is constantly monitored via wheel rpm sensors, the gearing then adjust to suit the load of the motors and gain further speed allowing the gear ratio to lower from 10:1 to as low as 1:1 at top speed. The gear ratio can also over drive thrown the ratio 1:2 giving the robot nearly double the original top speed and allowing far more energy, but this is only used when the opponent is at a distance where it can easily be disposed of. Otherwise, the drive is left at 1:1 maximum.

MDU 3 sports an advanced drive control system to that of Cyclone Bot as it uses motor and wheel sensors to travel and translate in the most efficient possible way, minimising energy lose. The drive will adjust ratio to suit condition if it is loaded and will change if need to translate at the full 14MPH (6MPH up on the last version since the robot size has decreased for faster movement, quicker spin up times and thicker armour). Spin up time is minimal and varies between 0.5sec spin up and 1sec when the system is suffering from battery voltage drop. At a mere 1/7th of its full RPM, this robot will be dangerous. 500rpm will have enough energy to throw robots out the road and allow it to continue it quest for domination. If people start ganging up on it (Everyone will, I know), the drive system will be locked down into 500rpm mode allowing the drive to have nearly maximum potential torque yields and it will force the opponents away till it can then safely power back up to full speed and deliver the force of the €œVortex of Destruction€. To ensure endurance during combat, everything has been shock mounted for maximum protection.
Batteries: 250 x 3600mAh NiCD cells producing 60v @ 18amps. The packs are protected by a system like the drive which give both current and temperature protection. The packs are re-enforced between the cells with Polypropylene cell holders and will prevent them from breaking during the impacts.
Armour: 4mm Hardox 500 with stainless steel welding built in a monocoque design with triangle shape and inner supportive bulkheads. 10mm Polycarbonate on the top to save weight due to the upgrade to Etek motors and higher voltage
Notes: Invertible. Soon to be your worst nightmare. All within your precious 100kg weight limit. Approche Avec prudence.

Rogue

Motivation: Wheeled
Speed: 18.84KMH (11.775MPH)
Weight: 91.39kg
Height: 248mm
Length: 523mm
Width: 1040mm
Ground Clearance: 10mm under disc teeth and increases to 20mm at the back.
Weapon: The weapon is a 24.61 kg, 580mm (From tooth tip to tooth tip) diameter flywheel mounted on a 20 degree angle. The flywheel is powered by a 6.8kg 125cc 5.3Kw (7.06HP) Husqvana chainsaw with modified Astroflight electric starter motor. The chainsaw has a peak RPM off 8500rpm and is geared 3.4:1 with a kevlar innerbound belt drive to produce a flywheel speed of 2500rpm. The chainsaw has a centrifugal clutch that prevents the flywheel from spinning at idle and prevents the chainsaw from stalling by cutting out at 500-600rpm. The weapon has a tip speed of 273.14Km/h while producing around 32Kjs of Kinetic Energy. The teeth are based on a shark tooth design where a inner concave to cut though metal much quicker and easier. The teeth are CNC machine blocks of Hardox 650 Wareplating to maintain a near perfect cutting edge.
Drive: The drive is a pair of S28-400 Magmotors coupled to a pair of 8:1 aluminium planetary gearbox which gives a final output speed of 500rpm at the drive shaft. The wheels are 200mm (8inch) Colson wheels with 3.25 mm Hardox 450 protection plates and 8mm thick Grade 5 Titanium/Vandium domes with tip spikes. The wheels are mounted on 40mm hollow, 5mm wall Stainless Steel shafts for maximum strength.
Batteries: 2 x 24v 3600mAh NiCD Battlepacks producing 24v @ 7200mAh supply (Enough for 10mins of solid driving, 8 mins of driving with several motor starts)
Monocoque (Chassis/Armour): The monocoque (chassis & armour combined) is a fully tig welded 8mm thick Grade 5 Titanium/Vandium with support braces and inner bulk heads for maximum strength and rigidness.
Electronics: Runs a RoboWars.org BMC speed controller with Hitec Focus SS-3 75mhz PCM 3ch Radio and a 3-axis computer Gyro for maxium control and handling. Uses 150amp rated Anderson power pole connectors and locking pins. Electronics are shock mounted and mounting in a floating style encased in HD (High Density) foam.
Notes: Can selfright via off balance weight distribution whe upside down and is added by the contact of the flywheel on the floor.

Weight Distribution:

Disc = 24.61kg
Wheels = 4.21kg
Chainsaw = 6.8kg
Chainsaw starter motor = 1.6kg
Gearboxes = 5.6kg
Batteries = 2.46kg
Monocoque body = 24.81kg
Weapon mounting and weapon drive components = 4.1kg
Electronics = 1.2kg
Drive motors = 6kg
NutsnBolts + Other pieces = 10kg

Total = 91.39kg

The Ultimate Wedge

Motivation: 6WD
Shape: A wedge shape like Voltronic
Speed: 35MPH
Weight: 100kg
Height: 250mm
Length: 800mm
Width: 600mm
Weapon: A High Pressure top hinged flipper powered by a 80mm bore with 3 20mm Burket valves feed from a 3L buffer tank, using 2.2L of Liquid CO2. Well over 500kg of flipping force. This is not designed to be a big powerful flipper, but is used to launch the opponents over the arena wall or to momentarily disable them so they can be rammed again! Flipper sits on top of the armour, meaning when the flipper fires, the robot is still armoured everywhere.
Chassis/Armour: 4mm Hardox 400
Drive: 2 x LEMCO 200€™s! Bigger then the LEMCO 130€™s and they put out more HP!
Batteries: 160 x 3000mAh NICD to produce 48v
Notes: The robot is invertible.
Advantages: The SPEED! The Pushability! The Strength! Flipping good
Disadvantages: Having to keep your opponent in the arena long enough to have fun

Mother of All Bricks Inevitably Evolved

Motivation: 4 Titanium wheels with urethane rubber and NIB magnets inside the rubber for extra traction on metal floors.
Speed: 15MPH
Weight: 100kg
Height: 220mm
Length: 650mm
Width: 620mm
Weapon: An active electric wedge, works both was up and is primarily used to get under the opponent and allow the drive to show them the walls.
Drive: 2 x LEM200D motors producing around 52HP peak each when on there nominal 60v. The motors are current limited to 400amps, which limits the constant HP to 35HP combined. The motors will be run at 59.2 volts
Batteries: 16 x 3.7v 40000mAh Lithium Polymer cells producing 59.2 volts @ 40amps. The Lithium Polymer will give continous amperage of 5C(200amps) and peaks up to 10C (400amps)
Armour: 6mm Hardox 450 all over
Notes: Invertible

Particle Accelerator (FW)

Motivation: wheels
Speed: 8MPH
Weight: 12kg
Height: 80mm (Excluding weapon motor height)
Length: 380mm
Width: 380mm
Weapon: 3.8kg spinning shell powered by a 35cc Huski chainsaw geared 5:1 down to 2000rpm. Spin up times should be less than 2 seconds with the motor screaming all the way!
Drive: 2 x 12v GMC 2 Speed drills with 75mm wheels.
Batteries: 10 x 2000mah NiMH producing 12v @ 2amp. Just enough to last a battle and a bit.
Armour: 3.25mm Hardox rim, 3mm Titanium top, 2mm Titanium base plate.
Notes: If you€™ve seen ICEWave, you€™ll understand this puppy. Pictures is a tad wrong, it€™s missing the motor, gearing and has two many packs in it :P (Was designing a EV powered version for this as a real featherweight)

The Quick & The Dead (LW)
Rule Bending Cluster Bot!

Name: The Quick
Motivation: 4 Wheels
Speed: 18MPH
Weight: 6kg
Height: 75mm
Length: 300mm
Width: 450mm
Weapon: A barbed wedge. Drives under the opponent and they get stuck on it! W00tage!
Drive: 2 x 12v Thin Gaps with NPC gearboxes
Batteries: 10 x 2600 NiMH producing 12v @ 2.6amp. Enough for 5mins hard driving
Armour: 5mm titanium monocoque with 10mm polycarb inner bulkheads.
Notes: Invertible, speedy wedge with one purpose. Getting the opponent stuck!

Name: The Dead
Motivation: 12 Legs
Speed: 1.89MPH
Weight: 19kg
Height: 250mm
Length: 600mm
Width: 600mm
Weapon: 8 tonne hydraulic crusher/ electric lifter combination. The weapon takes 0.5 seconds to close at full speed, due to the Vivoil twin speed pump and then a full 12 seconds to produce 8 tonnes at the tip. Should be able to crush up to 5mm Titanium, in around 15 seconds. Uses a variable ratio crushing mechanism, which is detailed in the attached drawing. A small linear actuator (250kg of force) is also mounted to the mechanism which will lift the opponent off the ground once the crusher has a hold.
Drive: 2 x 100w scooter motors on 48v (therefore 400w of power) while powers the legs. Leg mechanism shown in detail
Batteries: 40 x 2000 NiMH producing
Armour: 5mm 5083 Aluminium monocoque with Titanium & Hardox Exo-skeleton, refer to drawing.
Notes: Waits for €˜The Quick€™ to wedge/snare the opponent, trundles over and the crushers nice big holes into the opponent.

Insomniac (MW)

Motivation: 3 Omni wheels
Speed: 12MPH
Weight: 50kg
Height: 150mm
Length: 600mm
Width: 600mm
Weapon: 3 x 300mm 5kg flywheels at 4500rpm, powered by a Perm 080 @ 36v.
Drive: 3 x S28-150€™s @ 36v geared 17.5:1 via planetary gearboxes to the omni wheels.
Batteries: 90 x 3600 NiCD producing 36v @
Armour: 3.25mm Hardox, 3mm Titanium & 10mm Aluminium
Notes: Based on one of my first Vapourbots, Trifecta. Being an omni-bot, this little baby can run sideways and will cause a real fuss€¦.

Gyrate Extreme (SHW)

Motivation: 4 x Omni wheels
Speed: 10MPH
Weight: 155kg
Height: 320mm
Length: 500mm
Width: 1500mm
Weapon: The weapon is the focus on the robots upgrade. The 45kg spinner bar/hoop combo is powered by two Honda CR125 Motorbike motors. The CR125 motor produces 42.3BHP @ 11500rpm, and only weights 14.8kg each. The motors have a pair of electric starts mounted on them. The weapon rotates at a crazy 4500rpm, via a variable belt drive that changes ratios from 10:1 through to the final 2.5:1 ratio. The variable belt drive works by the expansion of one pullie (Motor end) and the contraction of the other (Weapon end) This is done via torque springs mounted on the adjustable pullies and forces them to change size when the load changes. Commonly found on 6WD amphibious ATV€™s.
Drive: 4 x LEM 130€™s on 24v geared 10:1
Batteries:
Armour: Can you say 15mm Poly-Propylene?
Notes: The weapon is devastating. The power is phenomenal. The noise is incredible! The bot is not invertible€¦ Flip and gone€¦€¦ But you have got to get close to it to flip it!