North Wales 28th / 29th April 2007

I am starting on the door panels for the arena in a few days. My proposed design would be as strong as any part of the arena, but I am left with a door of 1 meter wide, by 1 meter high.

If any robot you know of would have difficulty entering and leaving the arena through a 1m x 1m door, please let me know and ill go to the backup design. It should be as strong, but is a lot more work, so Id prefer option 1.

also, is everyone ok to negotiate a shallow entry/exit ramp?

cheers

(Message edited by jamesb on January 27, 2007)

Ripper?

ok, I have a ripper, will anyone raise me a TAN or Kan-opener?

come on guys, I need to know for sure, is 1 meter square ok?

Speak now or forever hold your peace.

(Message edited by jamesb on January 29, 2007)

Is there an area for activation / deactivation seperate from the main arena or is the only access via this door?

I would take the safer option of making the bigger door.

Allthough the FRA rules dont limit the size of a robot most people built to the old robotwars wars size limit, which if I remember was 1.2m wide, so this would be a safer option.

Ive put Turbulence in the old Robochallenge arena with Ed a few times when that had a one metre square (ish) door, it was awkward. And Turbulence isnt the biggest of machines. (800mm wide x 1000mm long)

How do you plan to arm up the robots? Put one robot in, arm it up, drive it away, put the 2nd in, arm it up, drive it away etc? Or are you having two doors?

Would it be that hard to make it abit bigger?

The biggest a robot can be according to the rules is 1.4metre square. (if i remeber correctly?) So atleast make it big enough to fit that + the arms of the people putting the robot in.

I pressume you have designed the arena in some sort of CAD. Willing to show us all a preview?

My 2p

How exactly do we load through this door? what about carrying/lifting it through? Is the only access into arena?

Beat me to it Mark :) 1.2 not 1.4 then

TAN is 1.16 meters if I remember correctly.