Skipdiving Robotics

**Ocracoke** · 21st August 2017, 00:57

Looks like it will be very tough and sturdy - what width and thickness is the box section being used in the photos?

**daveimi** · 21st August 2017, 08:07

Lol thanks! The idea at the min is to drill top to bottom through the base and sides and use nuts and bolts to clamp the sides to the base plate. Currently trying to dream up a much neater solution.

The box section is 2mm wall thickness and is 50mm x 50mm cross section. Robot is 400mm square.

**Ocracoke** · 21st August 2017, 09:52

Awesome!

TBH, Short of welding the panels to the box frame, I would think some quite meaty bolts, nuts and washers (M8/M10 type stuff) would be plenty to keep the panels to the frame. Makes it look quite industrial as well. As for the frame itself, 4x (or 8x) L shaped brackets on the interior so the panels sit flush on the box section (again, held in with nuts/bolts/washers)?

Did you decide on a weapon at all?

**TechAUmNu** · 21st August 2017, 11:29

Btw to embed images from imgur just use the add image button in the editor and use the From URL tab. You need the link from imgur with the image name though like this: http://i.imgur.com/Ik9NXoG.jpg so I you can just slap .jpg on the end of the link and it should work.

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**daveimi** · 21st August 2017, 12:49

Been looking at building just a rambot but not ruled out a hammer.

And thanku about the imgr stuff I'll have a go.

**daveimi** · 28th October 2017, 22:53

Spent the last few weeks sizing up and re-cutting, it was way too big. Shortened to 400mm wide by 300mm long. Then spent another week cutting it all out again by hand.

**Ocracoke** · 28th October 2017, 23:11

Looks neater than mine at the moment!

**Albear** · 28th October 2017, 23:27

yessss! #1fan is stoked for the return of this thread! looks plenty robust, what are you thinking about putting in there to shift all that metal? if you need a name i want to put forward "Aluminion" lol

**daveimi** · 29th October 2017, 08:02

I have some small motors and gearboxes I bought cheap a couple of months back but am worried they won't be torquey enough. I might try them, and if they're rubbish get some expensive ones.