First full combat featherweight-talk me out of it ...

After taking part in the sportsman featherweight for a couple of years and having mixed

results I have decided to build a full combat featherweight on a budget.

I have lots of bits lying around but I realise full combat is a different ball game with all

those spinners involved I need to think tough as old boots!.

I picked up a stainless steel slide around 2 years ago for free when the council re vamped

the park play area and have used that for the front/rear of the robot.

I got 2 makita 18 volt cordless drills out of a skip and they were in great condition-just the batteries

were duff-I will be running them at 24 volt so they went in the robot too.

Quite by accident while trying to drill the stainless and struggling even with Titanium drill bits

I decided to spot weld the stainless steel instead but found some stainless steel electrodes and they

were great for sticking bits together.

I was saving a bit of 6mm polycarbonte for my heavyweight but decided to shape that for the

top cover behind the stainless.

Cost so far under £5 in electric and cutting disks-what's not to like?.

I won't be giving up on sportsman as I find it great fun.

Oooooh this sounds really fun, do you have any pictures of it?

All I'll do is advise you take apart the drills and properly grub screw the clutch rather than keep the assembly together, it'll stop it clutching mid-battle.
After this weekend's sporsman test, I'll have one to join you :D

Great minds think alike Theo, I did want to get my full combat robot ready to sample it in

this weekends sportsman too but seeing I have only put around 10 hours work into it so far

it would be a push to get it ready -as work gets in the way :(.

No pictures as yet-maybe later.

Good to know you were proactive in the Pandemic and I look forward to see what you are bringing

to the full combat table-ideally top spot in sportsman would be a good indicator of your full combat

potential-so no pressure there mate!.

Sounds great Colin - any thoughts on a weapon or are you just aiming to make it survive for now? Look forward to seeing it up and running soon!

I'm going to see what weight it will be first in its basic state Sam and then take it from there-

If weight allows I might go for a driller queen extreme concept.

Reality bites....

I realise that building a full combat on a budget will not probably produce a competition winning

Robot but that has never been my incentive in any case and never will be.

For me it's just about been able to take part and have fun without breaking the bank and with

a bit of luck not taking my Robot home in a bin bag.

So the Robot is nearly finished with most of the bits salvaged from a skip apart from the ESC

and the battery, I did toy with making the Bot a spinner but it would have been costly and

difficult to make and would not have been the best spinner so I dropped that idea.

The Robot will be a superior version of driller queen-tougher/faster and a more powerful drill

and the plan is to debut it at Robodojo in August.

I may call the Robot Outside Toilet Technology (OTT) just to wind other roboteers up if it

manages a win but the working title is Driller Queen Extreme.

Yes Natanae I will post pictures soon.l

Will you post some pictures from your machine?

It's good to see over the pandemic you've kept at the robots and the ideas for them. I hope the new FW turns out well in the end!

Thanks for that Adam and good to see a post from you.

Retirement Home robotics sounds interesting.. are you utilizing your Arena yet?

I'm working on the wiring of OTT and will be adding a flush valve and toilet cistern

chain pull if weight allows :proud:

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Retirement Home robotics sounds interesting.. are you utilizing your Arena yet?

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Thanks, its just a random name for when I start going to events again, given those bots are all old(er) ones I bought, probably not the retirement they hoped for though! I now have a car too so I can drive to the out to Dojo given it is no longer near a rail station. As for the arena, I ended up donating to Bristol Bot Builders as they could make far more use out of it than I'd ever realistically get.

Hopefully won't be too long before I see you and your wonderful creations again, either helping out or fighting against them!

Not that it has been widely acknowledged it but I'm at least part sponsoring Robodojo this year and you

can get the red carpet treatment as far as I'm concerned Adam if you can make it up.

I'm looking for a beetle and ant weight owner to make up a team for Augusts 3 day event

if you are interested.

Camping on site is now available for anyone at £10 per person to save on hotel bills.

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I'm looking for a beetle and ant weight owner to make up a team for Augusts 3 day event

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Depending on dates, I'd definitely be up for that. Whilst I don't have an ant currently, my one time BotFest entry was scrapped nearly immediately after. If you're wanting to run some of mine, both of my BWs are disassembled in a box, I'll have to seek them and hope they still all fit together. Both of my BWs are fairly heavy hitting spinners, if Dojo has a suitable arena for them? My availability in August is pretty sketchy up until after 12th, but any time after that I shall be happy to help out and the fly the flag once more.

You are welcome to bring them up one Sunday Adam and we can work on them together

like the old days-heavy hitting spinners are whats required for sure.

Events are at the end of August inc the bank holiday Monday.

I have thrown you a rather long (sorry) private message with information on my bots, and further stuff I can donate to the Team Death cause relating to any future bots you may wish to do, I have some interesting spare bits currently that may interest you in furthering your combat FW sights.
I recently came across my Team Death polo shirt too when tidying up my flat, which may be a sign its time for me to get back into it myself too.

Driller Queen extreme attended it's first full combat event last Sunday and I was pleased with

it's performance overall.

The full combat annihilator was a last bot standing event at Robodojo so it was a bit of a baptism of fire.

I wanted to test out the stainless steel bodywork and headed for Binky on purpose and although the Robot

went flying it was relatively unscathed and fought on.

The drill had been broken off in a previous game so was inactive, eventually the link cable was torn loose

and the Robot lost power just after the wheel had been buckled.

I will probably drop the drill idea and put stainless steel all round with a deflecting wedge scoop.

Anyroad here's the video posted by someone at the event...........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkcxMql8Iw

Great stuff Colin, good to see it up and running and standing up to the punishment from Binky. Seems to be driving well too.