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hey guys, i am a real robot builder (and have been for over a year now) mostly ants and fleas but i do have a feather and a half built heavyweight, and i was wondering weather have a bash a something like this. can some charitable person please educate the thicky as to how these sorts of things work.
thanks,
harry
viewtopic.php?f=201&t=2024 should tell you most of what you need to know, hopefully...in short, it's basically designing one's dream robots without spending any money at all or having to worry about repairs :)
cheers joey :proud: i have had a breif read through that so i will try to cobble together something in the mess of wires and biscuit crumbs that is my brain :?
try not to laugh too hard now...
name: metanoia
weight: 100kg
shape: kind of hard to describe, vaugly (however its spelt) triangular but with a curved back and flat sides(i will include a picture soon to make it clear)
wheels: 10 pneumatic wheelchair wheels
motors: 24v wheelchair motors adapted to make them go faster (9:1 ratio i think)
speed: probably 10mph give or take, not that fast though
turning circle: 0
armour: 4mm steel box section frame with 12mm red hpde armour and 8mm steel front(8mm hdpe bottom) 14 mm polycarbonate top
ground clearance: 4mm at front 2cm at back
scrimech: two linac powered 20mm polycarbonate arms each side capable of lifing it back onto its wheels
weapon: pneumaticly powered flipper (no idea of power yet will find a suitable sized ram tomorow)
what do you think?
It's not bad at all, the main issue I can see right now is that it's a bit underpowered compared to most fanfic robots ;P A while ago I did a table that shows the relative power and weight of several commonly used fanfic motors, feel free to look in there and choose something suitable. For reference, a lot of fanfic heavyweights use either the A28-400 Mags at 24v or the 36v LEM130s and have speeds between 12-20mph.
ah cool, i will shove some better motors in
Not a bad start, nice to see some new potential
sounds good mate
(yes im down here too...)
I do have a design i can give you to get you started :)
cool :proud:
I'll PM it to you soon
is it cheating to use real life robots, but with more expensive stuff on them?
It's illegal to enter real robots with any alteration on them. I mean, you can base a vapourbot design on a real robot, but you can't, for instance, enter Firestorm with a rear disc. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by harry hills
btw, welcome to the fanfic section :)
what if its my robot? ( i can't realy afford mag motors and the like)
that's no problem :)
in that case..... :twisted:
hey there Harry, welcome to, here!
I see you've already had your share of help, keep it up, and yeah, entering an edited version of your own bot would be okay to do, very much so
cheers everyone :proud: , i am still mulling things over in my head a pit, do you have to include a esc? and what cad do people normaly use (preferably free :wink: )