Richie: The £50, 3 week Featherweight

[Rapidrory]

Was working fine again today until 'Pain in the ass' stabbed Richie right in the ass! Went straight through my armour and into my one good battery That was the second to last fight, so I fitted my other very old "7Ah" SLA for the final fight, which has almost no capacity left. It managed half a fight before it ran out of power (as I kinda expected), and then got floor flippered across the arena... Richie was very dead after that Not planning on doing any events until after July though, so have got plenty of do repairs and upgrades.

I would like to do 4WD with 4 motors, but I don't think I'd have the weight for it, especially having added a few extras. I have some 80mm diameter HDPE bar at home as it happens, so I'm planning to machine that for the rear wheels, then add some bike tread. For the front wheels I'm planning to use some 30mm diameter aluminium bar, which I can machine a groove in for a belt, then tap some holes in to add bike tread as well. I don't plan on the front wheels having a load of power, as they'll only really be needed when the other robot's wheels are off the ground, so they shouldn't be pushing against much most of the time. It will probably steer from the back because of that, but I'm just going for the simplest and cheapest options really.

I do plan on adding Razor style wings, as I worked out they'd take me maybe half an hour to build and fit, would only add another 200 grams or so, and is really the only way it could self right (Plus would look awesome! )

[Max]

It managed half a fight before it ran out of power (as I kinda expected), and then got floor flippered across the arena... Richie was very dead after that

Tell me about it, my robot was dead in the first fight and got thrown by the flipper twice but survived fine then in the second fight it died part way through got put on the flipper then chucked straight into the arena wall at the end of the fight, it wrecked the hinge for my flipper arm, somehow bent the threaded inserts in the wheels so they are wobbly as they turn rubbing against the chassis and bent the chassis ripping all the fixings out the GR01 motor. I wasn't able to come to the 2nd day as couldn't repair the damage overnight. I think they had turned the power of the flipper right up for the second fight on the Saturday, they probably did the same in the Sunday. Ahh well, part of the game I suppose.

[tweedermeister]

I too fell foul of the floor flipper, I don't think the power was changed at all since 2 bots hit the roof of the arena in 2 different fights (Mine being one of them).

[tweedermeister]

Tell me about it, my robot was dead in the first fight and got thrown by the flipper twice but survived fine then in the second fight it died part way through got put on the flipper then chucked straight into the arena wall at the end of the fight, it wrecked the hinge for my flipper arm, somehow bent the threaded inserts in the wheels so they are wobbly as they turn rubbing against the chassis and bent the chassis ripping all the fixings out the GR01 motor. I wasn't able to come to the 2nd day as couldn't repair the damage overnight. I think they had turned the power of the flipper right up for the second fight on the Saturday, they probably did the same in the Sunday. Ahh well, part of the game I suppose.

I too fell foul of the floor flipper, hitting the roof. I don't think the floor flippers power was changed though as another bot hit the roof on the Sunday and the flipper seemed to be strong enough to pull that off all event long.