A Random Thread

€˜ello €˜ello €˜ello, what€™s going on here then? A new random thread for me?

I got Christmas off from any work, so it€™s good news for me and not-so-good news for you, because it means I can spend more time online doing stuff.

So what I want from people who are reading this very random thread is to enter a vapourbot. I€™m not asking for mass overkill in the stat department with workings to the nearest tenth of a gram, because whats the point in that if this is only a game? Below are the areas which I would like everybody to fill in, but you can use any stat format you like.

Name:
Shape:
Weight: (Standard HW limits)
Motivation:
Power:
Speed:
Ground Clearance:
Skirting:
Armour:
Weapon:
SRIMECH:

Right, with any luck I would have posted this on the Friday, so you get to Monday to post your vapourbots. The arena will be the standard robot wars arena; the format will be decided on how many people decide to enter, of what will be my final fan-fic to be written:

Right, get cracking :proud:

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Name: Sengazanken [Cookie for anyone who knows where the name comes from]
Weight: 100kg
Speed: 25mph
Color: Black, with white stripes along the sides to make it look like its a bullet when it charges.
Shape: Square
Weapon: Dual vertical spinning discs at the front [small enough tow ork fine inverted] weighing 10kg each, powered by a LEM130 on 48v, spinning at 3500 RPM with 58kjs. Power in NiCads. Hinged wedge with a hole in it that leads up to the disc, so the disc dosent hit the hinged wedge.
Drive: 4 LEM130s on 48v. Inner wheels, invertible.
Armor: 8mm titanium. Side and rear hinged wedges.
TC: 0 [does anything have a TC not zero?]
GC: 0 all around
Stregnths: Extremley fast and powerful, well armored, low

Live A Live, cookie please. :wink:

Im gonna make a new bot for this tournament, stats will be up later on...

Currses! You win this time, Lord Fartknocker! But next time..NEXT TIME WILL BE DIFFRENT!
*hands Andy moldy cookie..I never said itd be a GOOD cokie did I?*

Not sure what to enter in this... is saving places allowed?

if so... *saves a spot*

Ill post my new entry later on.

*insert evil laugh here*

*insert evil laugh echo here*

Ill enter

Wolf

Mass-100kg
Weapons-front hinged flipper running at 250psi
Dimensions-95cm length/80cm width/40cm high
Shape-low wedge shape/sloped rear with skirts on the side
Wheels-Four inner wheels
Top Speed-22mph
Armour-6mm titanium all round
Motors-2x LEM130s at 36v
Power-4 x 48v NiCD 3600Mah Packs
Ground Clearance-0mm around the whole body.
Strenghs-Nippy around the arena, dependable armour, good weapon, can get under anything.
Weakness-Flipper cant get robots OOTA all the time (it can some times)

tony with 0mm ground clearnce all the way round how will your robot move?

Ill enter:

Name: Mass Disctruction Revolution (MDR)
Motivation: Wheels
Speed: 10.5MPH
Ground Clearance: 10mm
Weight: 100kg
Height: 140mm
Length: 700mm
Width: 700mm
Weapon: MDR sports a nifty 25.69kg Titanium Spinning Rim. The spinning rim is powered by a C40 Magmotor on 36v and is geared 5:1, rotating the spinning shell at 1200rpm and should spin up in around 2 seconds to max speed.
Drive: 2 x S28 Magmotors on 36v geared 12:1 onto a 140mm diameter wheel. Wheels are coated in urethane rubber to get more traction. The combined drive has 8HP peak power.
Batteries: 120 x 3600mAh NiCad Cells made into 36v packs. Produces 36v @ 14.4Amp/Hours
Armor: 5mm Aluminium top and bottom.
Notes: Invertible and easily to drive.

Strengths: Spinning weapon can attack/defend from any direction and has a moderately good 4WD drive train.
Weakness: High ground clearance might leave it susceptible to wedges and flippers. Rammers may try to box rush.


@Anthony Politzi: Youre not going to have the weight for 5 LEM130 motors & the required batteries to power them. Be half realistic will ya !:proud:

@Kevin Smith: How do you power motors at 36v when your giving them 48v of batteries? Got Logic?

I suppose i can tune it down to 24v then...

Name: Dues Ex Machina
Shape: Its centrally a block, set inside a thick ring. To be explained in weapons. Invertible.
Weight: 100kg
Motivation: On the central block there are two thin wheels, powered normally, set into the outside ring are two larger broad and high traction wheels with high power. The system is that either the outer ring can be locked parrallel with the inner wheels (using an actuator pwoered bolt, creates four wheels in a row) to give it quite good pushing power)
Power: 2x Lem 130s at 48volts for the outside wheels, 2x 750 watts Bosch motors at 24v for the inner wheels.
Speed: 15mph
Ground Clearance: 2mm
Skirting: N/A
Armour: Outside ring has a spinner ring on it, beneath is 6mm titanium. On top (and bottom) there is 2cm polycarb.
Weapon: The otuer ring turns the robot into either a fbs or rambot, depending on opponent, when locked in place the ring turns the robot into a rambot, however, the wheels, when the ring is unlocked, turn in opposite directions, turning the outer ring into a spinner. The outer ring weighs 28kg and has two 2kg hardox blades, which are 3cm long.
SRIMECH: ivertible

Name: Vertindicular
Shape: Basic low box wedge with a disc support in the centre.
Picture: Sort of like this - http://www.micro-maul.co.uk/action/IMG_1619.JPGhttp://www.micro-maul.co.uk/action/IMG_1619.JPG
Weight: 100kgs
Motivation: Four wheels with a simple rubber grip.
Power: Two LEM130€™s at 48v powered by NiCads.
Speed: 12mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm at the front wedge, 8mm at the sides and back.
Armour: 5mm Hardox front wedge, 6mm Ti/V everywhere else.
Weapon: A vertical spinning disc, held in a sort of cage that supports it and allows it to be run both ways up. Driven by a LEM130 at 48v. Two Hardox sharpened teeth to attack with on the disc. Can damage and flip other robots.
SRIMECH: Can work invertible, the cage simply swings into place.
Notes: Simple yet effective robot, one of the few vertical spinners about.

Hope that€™s all right, just tell me if you need any more info. :)

Ill enter, but I need to find a design worthy first...

Ill be entering something new later.

Forgot to mention that Sengazanken is 0mm with skirts.

Whats the ground clearance of Sengazanken [Cookie for anyone who knows where the name comes from] without skirts Tony???

Team Name: Team BriteSpark
Representing: Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales
Robot Name: Dennis The Menace
Length/Width/Height: 100 x 40 x 25 - 35cm (The height of the robot increases as you move from the front to the back).
Weight: 100KG
Motivation: 2 foam filled go kart wheels made of uber-tough rubber.
Speed: About 18mph
Weapon: The main weapon is a 20kg spinning drum, powered by 2 Huqsvarna 3120XP chainsaw motors. The weapon is capable of changing gears during a match. Originally, the drum spins at 2400RPM when geared down 10:1, but this can be increased to 2:1 at systematic intervals of 2 gearings (10:1, 8:1, 6:1, 4:1 2:1). The 4mm Titanium drum is fitted with 2 horizontal Hardox bars, welded, screwed and riveted on to avoid them coming off. These are designed not only to flip, but to rip off skirts and armouring. The drum can hit with over 10kJ of force when spinning at 2400RPM, and increases to an astonishing 243kJ when spinning at 2:1 gearing (12000RPM).
Drive: 24v Sinclair C5 motors.
Power: 4 x 24v NiCad batteries.
Armour: 5mm Titanium and Vanadium alloy.
Ground Clearance: 4mm all around.
Turning Circle: 0M
Notes: The robot is invertible, and is completely symmetrical when flipped, meaning the performance isn€™t altered at all. The robot€™s shape is basically a box, but with the height increasing as you move from front to the back. The robot has 2 thick Hardox spikes on each side, which means it can pass the passive weaponry rule, and these also stop the robot resting on its side. To stop it resting on its back, the rear of the robot is slightly curved.


Turning Circle is 0m

Name: Walsall2-1Merthyr Tydfil
Shape:A Circle
Weight:100KG
Motivation:4 wheels
Power: 4 lem130s
Speed: 24.235MPH
Ground Clearence: at the front and back 3mm at the sides 5mm
Skirting: None
Armour: titanium
Weapons: A flipper at the front and an axe at the back and some spikes at the side
Srimech:flipper
Notes:If im in any trouble Ill spin and my robots would just damage the opponent with the spikes and also Im teasing Daniel a bit because I support Walsall and of the name.

AXE-O-LOTL

Weight: 100 kilos
Body Shape: Comengetorix
Speed: 20mph
TC: 0
GC: 2mm
Wheels: 4 inner
Armour: Mainly aluminium (5mm) with 3mm Titanium top plates.
Power: Same stuff as Storm 2 and Cyclone Force uses.
Colour: Has interchangable panels. One set is pure black, the other pure white with pink tinges.
Weapons: A very nasty axe, with the power of Dominator 2. The head is diamond tipped, and the whole weapon is VERY persistant. It can fire about 40 times in one fight.
Srimech: The axe rights the robot. The robots body is designed so it cant be side stranded.
Inspiration: My favourite amphibian, the axolotl.
Strengths: Powerful weaponary
Weaknessess: Questionable armour.

BIO
Axe-O-Lotl likes a bit of Mexican chilli powder with his lubricating oil. After a break in Mexico, Axe-O-Lotl has returned to join the mightiest of the mighty on Team Dinowarrior. His powerful/persistant axe is brutal, and he has just as much power as Cyclone Force.

Time for some good festive n00b flaming! :proud:

Dan: Sinclair C5€™s? You€™re such a caveman! XD

Chris: I€™d say 2mm clearance is too small€¦

Tim: Four LEM130€™s is pushing the weight a little IMO€¦ what thickness is the Titanium? What are the flipper and axe powered by? What hinge is the flipper?

Sorry Dave, just couldn€™t resist€¦ :P

Diotoir gets away with it. Plunderbird gets away with it. Even Comengetorix, who my robot is based on, gets away with it.

And Sinclair C5s have recently been found to be the most reliable motor around so :lame:

Anything running less then 5mm GC will get beached on the smallest of crude. I thought 3mm was fine on my first featherweight, I was wrong :proud: I run 10mm minimum and even that I still get beached on wedges and torn off parts of robots.

@ DAN: That drum is soo gonna break :proud: 4mm titanium.... I know feather weights with thicker pieces then that for there weapons.....

And then going at that speed and horsepower... that drum will total itself. :P

Speed is the biggest problem, HP isnt too much of the problem :proud:

LMAO

Well I think that just about sums it up. :proud:

who cares about whats running the flipper and axe and its 3mm titanium.

(Message edited by dogbot4000 on December 20, 2005)

Oh, so its running on mechanics, thus taking about 15 seconds to fire? EVERYONE cares whats running them. And you still havent mentioned the flippers hindging.

If you say Who cares we should just assume its clockwork:proud:

who cares about whats running the flipper and axe

Everyone cares! By that we all take it that the weapons are not powered, then. Which is just as well because if they were it would probably be overweight.

what ok the flipper is co2 and the axe is as well.

Okay, it is now wednesday, entries are closed, and time to announce the draw:

The Robots:
Sengazanken
Wolf
Mass Disctruction Revolution
Dues Ex Machina
Vertindicular
Dennis The Menace
Walsall2-1Merthyr Tydfil
Axe-o-Lotl

Melee 1 (of which 2 robots go forward)
Sengazanken vs. Mass Disctruction Revolution vs. Vertindicular vs. Walsall2-1Merthyr Tydfil

Melee 2
Wolf vs. Dues Ex Machina vs. Dennis The Menace vs. Axe-o-Lotl

As this time, the random thread is active, and the stats entered and any changes made final, tough luck if you reserved spots and didnt put the stats up, you had 100 hours (and I want to get a move on, and not wait til the end of the world)

Tactics, Predictions if you may :)

Dave
Rock n Roll is here to stay

Tactics. If MDR wants to team up then Ill Axe and drag Vertindicular to the arena wall then spin and with the flipper toss him OOTA then when Sengazanken is getting destroyed by MDR Ill hit the pit switch and ram Sengazanken down the pit.

Melee 1
Sengazanken vs. Mass Disctruction Revolution vs. Vertindicular vs. Walsall2-1Merthyr Tydfil

Go after Walsall2-1Merthyr Tydfil and keep hitting the Titanium, should be able to rip something off it and immobilise it. Then go after the cookie bot (Sengazanken) and tear into it too... Aiming to hit the sides or corners or skirting on either opponent to get that nice panel tearing effect

Will let Vertindicular do his thing, will save me having to fight so much.

Melee 1
Sengazanken vs. Mass Disctruction Revolution vs. Vertindicular vs. Walsall2-1Merthyr Tydfil

Go after Walsall2-1Merthyr Tydfil and keep hitting the Titanium, should be able to rip something off it and immobilise it. Then go after the cookie bot (Sengazanken) and tear into it too... Aiming to hit the sides or corners or skirting on either opponent to get that nice panel tearing effect

Will let MDR do his thing, will save me having to fight so much.

Cookie bot eh? Well, it is easier to spell than Sengazanken..:P
Go berserk on blah blah whatever there is no way im going to be bothered to spell out all that [tydfil] from the sides then push Vertindicular from the sides while destroying it into the pit or something...
Avoid MDR at ALL COSTS. [Or at least try]

LOL! @ AJ :proud: You cant possibly lose with those tactics :proud:

Oh yeah you do know that the titanium is 3mm Dominator 2 S5-6 armour, grade 3 titanium methinks.

(Message edited by dogbot4000 on December 23, 2005)