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Originally Posted by joeychevron
That's weird. You being the original builder of Boner, that's not the feline name I expected...
*Drum beat* :lol:
Have you given up on the Cassius machine or is paws one of a fab four?
*Drum beat*
Yeah, I'm not funny, I know.
I did contemplate calling it what can only be described as a five-letter abbreviation of Pussycat, but
a) I thought I'd be better off keeping it clean
b) I didn't want to suffer the wrath of the forum profanity checker every time I referred to my robot
Although I did contemplate sticking some neodymiums in it and calling it p***y-magnet but again that'd be verging on pretty risque, not to mention the fact that robots don't really achieve success in that department :lol:
I think I have the name of my next machine :rofl: pu$$y magnet
You should try making that flywheel axe machine in the shape of Kat 3. Imagine the chopper puns you could get in!Quote:
Originally Posted by typhoon_driver
No Cassius replica then? :(
Glad to see those MFA motors put out some power, I was somewhat skeptical.
I've gone with the 30:1 gearboxes, but my wheels are about twice as big as yours.
Did you buy those hex bushes to mount the banebot wheels? Any good? is that why the wheel fell off?......
The Cassius replica may still happen (got the weapon servo and some wheels for it) but I'm holding off on it until Paws is done as it's a more exciting thing to build :)
The MFA motors do seem to have a decent power output, maybe not fantastic still, but certainly enough to push other beetleweights around without problems.
And I did buy the hex hubs for the Banebots wheels. The wheel came off because the little grub screw holding the hub on to the motor output shaft came loose. It should stay in place when I use some Loctite on the thread, but thinking about it, if a spinner gets a hit on one of those wheels, they'll probably come off. They don't have the same holding power as, say, a drill motor shaft and a blue wheel since you don't have the thread locking the two parts together - you just have a grub screw tightened down against a flat shaft. Not so much of an issue if your wheels are internally mounted, but it could become an interesting challenge trying to guess how many wheels I'll lose during an event :lol:
But all that aside, the hex hubs are pretty good and means it takes seconds for you to mount your wheels.
atleast you don't have the servo horn cracking into 10+ peices as is what happends on kookaburra :)
My Beetle has exposed wheels too, which was a design I always wanted to try and avoid. They make you very vulnerable.
Just practice your driving so that you're good enough to keep the business end of your robot pointed towards your opponent and keep the wheels out of line of direct attack. Easier said than done though!
Any progress on Erica? Interested to see how that ends up working/looking :D
None yet, been having too much fun playing around with my beetle :D
I've been holding off sorting out all ant-related stuff until my wages come through; it's psychologically less painful to order a bunch of robot bits when you're rich and expensive orders don't seem to make much of a dent in your balance!
Having said that, I've just noticed that I've only got this weekend and next weekend to get everything together, so I'll need to set aside some time this week to work out exactly what I need and get it all ordered. I expect the build to be fairly quick but I'm anticipating a couple of chassis revisions before I'm happy with it, so I just need to make sure I factor that into my build time. Don't want to be giving Eric a bad name or anything by putting in a shoddy small-scale performance 8)
Haha fair enough.
I know what you mean, I was just thinking that there isn't much time left and that you might have started but I suppose 2 weeks is plenty of time to build a robot in a class you've never built a bot in before... :lol:
Is there a Beetle event coming up soon?
Not to the best of my knowledge, but I've been wanting to get a fully working beetle built for a while now, so that if an event is announced at short notice, I can just turn up with my robot and go TA-DA!! :)
There's not a lot happening full-combat wise in the last quarter of the year (that I'm aware of anyway) so unless something comes up, I'm half-toying with the idea of trying to organise some sort of gathering or event (maybe beetleweight) just as an excuse to crack out the spinners and keep the battle juices flowing.
Update
A nice little weekend challenge for me:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...m/DSCN6200.jpg
Got to turn this pile of parts into a working antweight (EricA) and fleaweight (mini Chaos 2). EricA is going to be driven by two 30:1 Solarbotics motors, one of which is missing in the picture as Technobots is awaiting delivery of more stock - just hope it arrives in time. These will be attached to the wheels in the picture (32mm diameter) and at 6V will be pretty damn nippy. Just going to use servo boards out of some surplus/crap servos as speed controllers, as I've got plenty kicking about. The battery pack is 120mAh and will also be powering either a 20g servo or a 14g servo (with metal gears) for the front lifter. I've got five A4 sized sheets of 1mm polycarb there and a sheet of 1.5mm ali that will be used in varying amounts as the chassis/armour.
The mini Chaos is getting new drive servos as the current ones are just too underpowered. The blue servos on the left of the picture will be the replacements - TowerPro SG-50s weighing in at 5g each. The smaller of the three battery packs (4.8V, 120mAh) will provide the power, and with a smaller FrSky receiver, everything will fit in the back and allow me to get the polycarb cover on it. I'll need to trim the flipper plate to get it to fit the 3 cube but it'll be a cut-and-shunt job so it will still look the same. It won't be that effective but will be good fun to drive around :)
Awesome! Looking forward to seeing the Mini Chaos 2.
coolage :) , is that a new spinner design i see lurking under those servos?
how much does the mini chaos 2 weigh at the moment?
Jonny: It's a drawing of a full-body spinner yeah, but I don't think it'll come to much. I drew it to the 4 sizing just to see how big it would be and how components would fit in, but the design is flawed in antweights because of the 50% drop-off rule; the ricochets from impacts would be uncontrollable therefore it would probably spend most of its time throwing itself out of the arena. It would really need a fully sealed arena to stand any chance of succeeding. Then again, I could just make it for fun :)
Ben: The last time I weighed it it was sitting at 60 grams but I've since swapped the battery for a smaller, lighter model. Plus that reading was taken from a rubbish pair of scales so I'm going to get a cheap little set of digital ones from Argos tomorrow that'll be handy for these robots as well as my beetleweight(s) and see what it's sitting at now.
lol, just like mgm (antweight fbs with tuna can shell) and mgm2 (antweight overhead bar spinner) was alot of fun but got written off by militant :PQuote:
Originally Posted by k_c_r
That drawing doesn't look too far away from Eric's shape but I see what you mean about the slight reduction in relative length, still looks close enough though :) . The 1.5mm aluminium armour will be thicker than big Erics though :lol:
Yeah, it's not that accurate but once it's all coloured up to match, you should be able to tell what it is :)
Not got off to the best of starts though, was hacking some old servos to use the boards as speed controllers but out of four, I currently only have one working one due to broken bits/overheated circuits/random failures on the rest, so I took the lazy way out and bought two 2A controllers off eBay :lol:
Update
The mini Chaos 2 has been shelved for the upcoming AWS as I was having problems with both the drive and weapon. The drive wheels weren't touching the ground equally so it was struggling to steer in a straight line and then I buggered the weapon servo which just compounded a rather frustrating day yesterday.
So I decided to take all the parts I had for a fleaweight and throw them into an Electronize cover and add a polycarb wedge. Introducing:
Kiss My Asimov :proud:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...m/DSCN6206.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...m/DSCN6207.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...m/DSCN6208.jpg
Weighs in at 59g, so got 16g spare to devote to a little more armour. The wheels were external originally but that meant it couldn't fit in the 3 cube so I had to rip everything out and start over again. But it's a fun little beastie to drive :)
Progress on EricA is much slower. I've only got some of the chassis made and one wheel/motor combo attached. It looks quite odd and un-Eric-ish due to the size restriction. Eric's quite a bit longer than it is wide, but the ant is pretty square and has to be rather tall to fit everything in. Hopefully it'll bear a resemblance once it's all finished though:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...m/DSCN6218.jpg
I have to admit, these things take a lot more work than I anticipated, possibly because I'm not used to building at this scale. I could throw a basic featherweight together in a weekend but struggled to get a 150g creation made in the same time-frame. Oh well, gives me something to do with my evenings this week...
Goes to show that a competitive ant is not an easy build. Its got its challenges like the other 3 active weight classes (Beetle, feather and heavy)
Wait, what? Who said anything about this ant being competitive?! :lol:
Hard to tell from here, are the wheels going to be exposed (Robot Wars Eric) or inboard (Eric now)? A pointless detail, but just helping you with your accuracy :lol:
You could start a trend Jamie whereby you make a smaller weight class out of a component from a larger one.
Next week, I wanna see a FW in a Bosch 750, ok?
hahahaha
That would be awsome(bit samlll though)
Umm, both :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Anttazz
They'll be mounted inside, but the side armour starts off vertical and then slants up to the top, so I'm going to have cut-outs in the armour to clear the wheels (the wheels are a bit large in proportion to the rest of the robot). So yes, technically they'll be in and out.
A FW in a Bosch 750? Challenge accepted! :D
That sounds like a really fun idea to try and build
etek casing would be better :P
fbs beetle made from an etek :)
Oh by the way Jonny, bring Kookaburra to the AWS, I'll throw some sort of shell on Paws, and we can have a beetleweight fight :)
Okay, Etek casing it is. Who's got one going spare? :uhoh:
slight problem with that jamie, kookaburra fell of a step (about 1 ft high) and the servo horns smashed, it's currenty awaiting a proper rebuild using motors. on the subject of remembering things remember my £35! :)
If you're taking your Beetle to the AWS Jamie I'll try and throw Cyclone back together and bring it along for a fight- its been sitting around for nearly a year not doing much :)
@Johnny, just call it preliminary testing.
@Jamie, then I want a BW in a Drill Motor, a Flea in a Servo..........
Ah that's a shame. Oh well, I can use mine as an uber-house robot for the antweights :proud:Quote:
slight problem with that jamie, kookaburra fell of a step (about 1 ft high) and the servo horns smashed, it's currenty awaiting a proper rebuild using motors
And I shan't forget, I can even try and get English money if you're at all iffy about our awesome Scottish tender. And on the subject of remembering things, remember the parts for the £35 which you reminded me to remember :crazy:
Sounds like a plan Will - I'd better sort out some semi-decent armour for it then :shock:
Aww c'mon PJ, I've already done a flea in an Electronize. Is that not good enough? :( :P
I could do a beetle in, like, a can of Pepsi if that suits? Obviously with the contents emptied beforehand!
have you ever seen killacan jamie? it's an antweight inside a baked been tin :proud: don't worry i shant forget to remember the stuff for the £35 you need to remember also jamie remember to remember remember the 5th of november :lol: