Looks good
I'd personally ditch the double wheels only having 4 not 8
I'm presuming here but have you worked the gearbox out for the weapon? If you haven't id imagine you'd be able to save some vertical space there and get the blade a bit lower
Look forward to the pics
Long time and little progress.
Changed the design a bit, is now a bit wider and a couple of glaring flaws have been sorted out, just waitng for more to become aparant.
Today I made a start on the wedge on the front, a bit of 6mm aluminum with 6 bits of 12mm nylon bolted to it, actual wedge will be a 2mm Ti, same as the baseplate this whole front wedge will be atached using 4 M10 bolts and aditional aluminum angle tapped to M4. Bulkheads will be 2 layers of 15mm hpde with 6m alu bolted to them
Still need to find some material for the bar. Considering Ti but that has proven difficult to find.
Thanks.
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Well it was pretty clear I had no idea what i was doing when i started this, and still don't tbh but progress has been made.
material for the bar has arrived and i just stuck it on the top to see what it would look like. Looks okay to me. Haven't started on the weapon yet as i was getting the drive in semi working order. Some hideously bad ideas are at play here I feel but should be a wonderful learning experience
plain robot:
mock up of weapon
It's better than last year at any rate
Looking good man.Originally Posted by harry hills
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Well it was pretty clear I had no idea what i was doing when i started this, and still don't tbh but progress has been made.
material for the bar has arrived and i just stuck it on the top to see what it would look like. Looks okay to me. Haven't started on the weapon yet as i was getting the drive in semi working order. Some hideously bad ideas are at play here I feel but should be a wonderful learning experience
plain robot:
mock up of weapon
It's better than last year at any rate
Quick question, is this the design based off one of mine that I let you use or one of your own?
Still looking good
Well that design you sent me sparked off the whole overhead thing so kinda
Hehe, glad to see I play some part in this
Nice design...looks really menacing. And if well built its capable of inflicting quite some heavy damage.
A local team has a similar machine (pic below)
and it did do quite a good deal of damage!!
Your design reminds me of Hazard
I doubt it will be anything special, but it might knock a couple of hdpe robots about.
Update, had lots of spares and other bits arrive including the battery, an 18.5v 4000mah 35c lipo. slightly wary of it atm, I need to order a slightly bigger lipo bag before I attempt to charge it, hope I don't break anything on the first charge
I think its not the thickness which matters in your case, but the width of the bar, and also any holes drilled in the bar will weaken it, for example on Pacman, the bar they used measured roughly 500mm long, 3/8 thick and 2 wide made from steel - it got bent from the centre because the mounting hole was too big.
Out of curiosity, how are you going to transmit drive to the spinner?
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