Team Saint Robot Builds

[daveimi]

Does the polycard screw onto the drill shaft or just slide on and held captive by the screw? Any chance of seeing an up close picture as have been after a new wheel solution since the robochallenge stuff dried up.

[daveimi]

God that's fantastic thank you !!!!!!

[craig_colliass]

I've been doing some work on the "dark arts" yes pneumatics! hoping to show more progress in the year on this project.



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Also for Portsmouth I'm thinking of fixing this to the top of E-Knock to give it a little PEP.

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What do you think?

[daveimi]

This is fantastic, you have the best collection of robots ever...

[Rapidrory]

Please say this is actually going to be built! Though I would have thought with your machining skills you would be making the engine yourself? :L

If this were to happen what would you power it with? Steam? compressed air? CO2?

[maddox10]

It would be a work of art. Art shouldn't fight.

[Rapidrory]

It would be a work of art. Art shouldn't fight.

Try telling that to some of the Battlebots teams

I do agree though, it'd make a much better show piece than combat robot, especially since then you don't have to armour it as heavily. I'd look into making your own engine though if you; shouldn't be too tricky to build a simple one, and would cost substantially less than £700. Plus then you could design it into the robot which may well give a better look.

It's something I've joked about doing for ages, but it would be awesome if someone actually did. For some reason I'm now picturing a steam powered spinner :L

[craig_colliass]

The target weight is 27.2Kg but I think this may be a bit difficult/impossible to achieve.

One of the reasons for doing this is to prove the impossibility of the 2 degrees of freedom rule we have in combat robotics. (and as a result no walkers!)

If I can I might use it in Featherweight fights, but the main thing is as a design and build exercise. the design is still fluid as to how it will look and even how it will steer.

But first things first lets get the leg mechanism working!

[daveimi]

I was thinking about building a fan powered robot!! I have the design and everything ready to go, do you think I should give it a shot?

[overkill]

What's the point? Even large & expensive EDF units have relatively low thrust of around 4Kg so you would need several fans to have reasonable pushing power. The bot will still need unpowered wheels or rollers to move on and you don't have reverse drive.