Team Saint Robot Builds

**craig_colliass** · 11th July 2016, 15:56

Still carrying on with the Walker project. there always seems so much stuff to put in the robot when you decide to do a walker! where to put everything is a real pain!!

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Parallel to this I'm developing a new weapon system for the walker, I'm doing this in tandem, as if making a walker wasn't enough. the design is progressing well and the pneumatic actuator has performed well I'm hoping to develop a reliable sword or axe actuator for the walker, if it works the way I'm hoping it will be fun!

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**terry** · 28th May 2016, 22:18

Well if it's a competition and your doing it until it blows then I'm going for 185psi.

**craig_colliass** · 8th June 2016, 12:27

Compressors for the walker leg mechanism.

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**craig_colliass** · 19th July 2016, 11:05

Hi I have just got this email and wondered if anyone else has received anything similar.

Dear Mr Colliass,

I am writing in the hope that you are the same Mr Craig Colliass of Team Saint in Robot Wars. Bear with me as this may seem like an unusual request, but I think it will make sense by the end.

My name is Kent Boehm and I am the Head of Research at The Meikle Files, an organisation dedicated to the study of human high performance. I am writing to enquire as to whether you would be willing to participate in short interview with our founder and CEO, Andrew Meikle.

Andrew has spent much of the past 25 years travelling the world, interviewing people who have achieved extraordinary results in their field, or those who have insight into the philosophies and psychology of high performance, or great expertise in their field. He has invested much effort into studying human endeavours that are in one or more ways remarkable or unique.

This pursuit has involved interviews with leaders like Nelson Mandela, scientists such as Richard Dawkins and Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt, adventurers like Sir Edmund Hillary as well as athletes, futurists, law enforcement professionals and leading business figures among others. Andrew has also studied high performance environments such as NASA, The Royal College of Music in London, Harvard Business School, The Juilliard School of Performing Arts and many of the worldâ€™s leading universities and schools.

Andrew will be in Oxford from the 30th of July until the 6th of August, and part of my job is to find interesting and unique people for him to speak to. Your name came up in an article about Robot Wars and I was hoping you might be willing to chat about the competition in general and perhaps show him the robot. He would be interested in your motivation and some information about the competition, and what drives you to invest your time into the hobby. I think there is a unique take on high performance here and I would like Andrew to explore it with the people who are involved at a grassroots level.

It would take less than an hour and would be conversational in format.

Thank you so much for your time. Feel free to reply with any additional questions you may have about our work.

Kind Regards,

Kent Boehm

Sounds interesting but a little unusual even in my world!

**craig_colliass** · 17th August 2016, 19:53

Time for some work on Gabriel
As you can see there is still plenty of wear left on the motor brushes the motors are now coming up to 2 years old and I think there is only just over 1mm wear on them so all good there I checked the commutator and that looks OK too
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Some thing has gone through the sprocket! Probably bits of a robot I smashed up!

I am changing the ratio for this season It was 36.3:1 now 33.3:1 This means the speed has gone up from about 12mph to 13mph these are real figures not fairyland over the rainbow down a cliff hope for figures. This means the sword will swing 180degrees in 0.25 seconds instead of 0.30 seconds or there about.

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**RogueTwoRobots** · 28th May 2016, 23:31

They're good for at least 50psi anyway as that's what Rex's Robot Challenge pneumatics ran drinks bottles on, and I took ours up to 75psi once (the silicone hose started to give out before the bottle).

How have you bonded the copper pipe to the bottle? That was always the weak link for me when doing the RRC stuff.

**craig_colliass** · 14th June 2016, 14:43

Hi testing valves again for the weapon for the new Walker. I'm thinking of calling it Seraph as the old Seraph has been retired. Mainly because it was ignored as the weapon was considered infective. The new Seraph wont be ignored. I am planning on this being a robot killer! be warned.

The valve test was very effective and with two compressors and two receivers the flow rate will be very good, I'm not sure what weapon it will have but probably a sword.

Enjoy the video.

**overkill** · 29th May 2016, 00:28

A guy over here used to reinforce the top of the bottle with epoxy and regularly got 120 PSI out of them.

**craig_colliass** · 19th June 2016, 19:12

Just got the valve assemblies going still need a bit of work but they seem OK.
I'm hoping to get the robot mobile at least in a test mode in the next couple of weeks,
Bits ordered for the weapon actuator and a video of that coming soon hopefully.

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