Christmas

So whats everyone up to over christmas robot wise and otherwise?

Whats the big guy bringing everyone this year?

Think your taking on the roll of the big guy this year, Hardox! Part from that probably not a fat lot. New featherweight which should be ready by end of Jan is what Im currently working on and upgrades to Turbulence. - Oh forgot Autodesk Inventor also has landed, so im spending time learning how to design some really cool stuff.

Yeps Ill be welding some new side armour into Turbulance along with a 16bar setup and nicads:)

Im probably getting some nicads and some titanium , and loads of money from relatives :)

asked for a new welder but apparently santa cant bring power tools so i am having to settle for a sony psp........its a tough life!

yeah tough life gary

I should hopefully get OverDrive finished over the Chrsitmas holiday.

And also, isnt it time the http://www.picturevillage.com/photo/...257412.jpgsnow

Ideally would like to get some featherweight work done over the hols but I dont see it happening quite yet, so Im just gonna build an ant to drive around and distract me from what Im meant to be doing (exam revision grrr)

And I agree with AJ, get that snow logo back up :)

Oh you mean the beached seal one

Santa needs to bring me 3 pre made assignments that i can just hand in when i go back to Uni after Xmas LOL.

Mr Stu

Yea i think i could do with that as well!

I want Santa to bring me an anti-gravity device to fit into Pillow Fight to make it weigh 12Kg!! :)

Fill Pillow torque with Hydrogen....

At least it could be spectacular

On a serious note...Im getting a CNC laser profile cutter on Thursday, with a days training on it next Wednesday. :)
Its only 40 Watts with a bed measuring 400mm x 300mm. It wont do metals or polycarb but it will do polypro, nylon etc
Guess Ill be using a lot of those plasics in my robots from now on.

Please Santa, just give me the money :)

Geoff, if PF was made from anti-matter it will have the same effect but costs much less and would make quite a good weapon too :) I only envisage one problem - the motors would have to run it at close to the speed of light so the robot may probably disappear before your eyes during event tech checks even though its still on its cradle :wink:

The only way I can see anitmatter being held together is by having one large magnetic field seperating it from the matter parts of the robot. Only a maniac would even consider putting that much power into a magnetic field capable of doing so.


[Edit:- Second thoughts Geoff, just take the housing off your spinner motor. :wink:]

Hmm.. there is this rumour that theres a Christmas apparently, not sure what its about, but i think ive been a really bad girl this year, cos im getting nothing!

But hey, didnt someone else said not so long ago that he doesnt exist? *waits for the santas mob to hunt me down* *chuckles*

This is me, get used to it!:crazy:

Damn no one told me there was no such thing as Santa :sad:

What !!?!?!?!?!?! :sad:

Antimatter persay doesnt have negative weight, but if Geoff could invent an antigraviton generator then he would have some sucess. However the graviton hasnt even been discovered yet, let alone its antimatter equivalent.

More useless info from the world of physics.

Santa Claus is the mangled name of Saint Nicolas.

Saint Nicolas is the Roman-Catholic saint for children because, according to the legends, he was a bishop in a Mediterranean country (either Turkey or Spain), lived during the early Middle Ages, and was supposed to either have secretly given money to 3 sisters who needed a dowry, or saved several children from a butchers cooking pot by taking their remains and bringing them back to life.

Hence the tradition that this saint does good things for children (women in those times were oficially regarded as children by the way).

You just missed his Birthday, it was on the 6th.

Wouldnt an anti-graviton generator cause objects to be propelled away from the source? You could push you opponent around without even coming into contact and never hit the side wall either.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.......Geordi, make it so.

Have to be one hell of a Antigraviton generator to cancel out the local vicinity of gravitons.

Just to confuse. You do realise old St. Nicolas is the Patron Saint of thieves???

You do realise old St. Nicolas is the Patron Saint of thieves???
Yep! He has an uncanny knack of stealing all my money and buying presents and food with it :)

Not a hundred percent sure, Karoline, but if you have a generator that had the right strength then in theory you could get an object to float, i.e. have no weight.

I dont want to ruin what was an otherwise entirely practical idea, but Im not sure adding antimatter to a robot would reduce its weight. Its mass would be smaller, but gravity produces an acceleration dependent on mass again which is now negative, so an unconstrained blob of antimatter would fall towards the earth rather than away from it so far as I can see. Perhaps someone with better physics skills than me can predict its effect on RRs scales.

As for Christmas... Santa would be Bristol & West who are buying me my first house, which I hope to be in by Christmas, which will give me much more space and my own garage to work on Jalapeno and Seranno and my aging car, and no-one will mind if I leave a couple of gearboxes disassembled on the kitchen table there :)

Jim, what you have said is true, antimatter does have normal mass hence would weight the same as normal matter on earth. But the graviton is what causes an object to have weight, so the antigraviton has the opposite effect on space and time. So in effect would push an object away from any massive object such as the earth.
But this is getting too indepth now and such a device is likely to weight several hundred tons.

Im getting a new tent for Christmas, one that is easier to put up and that doesnt leak, as people who have attended some events this year can vouch for.