Wooden Robot Class

**Laser** · 15th September 2011, 16:10

im up for it

**jonny** · 15th September 2011, 16:23

i'm in!

chipboard!!

**mattsdragons** · 15th September 2011, 16:26

i would happily do something like this

**PJ-27** · 15th September 2011, 16:29

@Dave, that's what I was trying to get at, most people already have screwdrivers, hacksaws, rasp etc.... Plus woodwork is a compulsory subject in most schools at least until GCSE and then most of Resistant Materials works with wood, so most people should know what they're doing.

**harry hills** · 15th September 2011, 16:45

indeed, yay resmat got that first tomorow

**mattsdragons** · 15th September 2011, 16:48

this could be a way of intrducing spinners back, just non lethal ones. we could make a rule of must use a stock cutting disk of no more than x inches and at no more than x RMP

**daliad100** · 15th September 2011, 18:14

I did some maths based on a thin shelled ring weighing in at 30 lb with a 20ft/s tip speed max comes to 250J no matter what size the weapon is. In reality it will be much less than this due the impossibility of all of the mass being on the edge.

The formula quite nicely simplifies to Max KE = (mk^2)/2 where m is the robots mass in kg and k is the maximum allowed tip speed in m/s

On a side note, I remember reading that the antweights DBA and Katjuscha have something on the order of 100J in their discs so these should be safe(ish)

Edit: Added units for the formula