Quote Originally Posted by Jackpietrzak1 View Post
I know beetleweight robot are abit bigger than antweight robots & would have abit more room to add or fit things in, so what want to know is:-
1) as I found out that one team built a spring powered flipper for their antweight robots so could this spring powered flipper for the beetleweight robots?
2) with weapon motors, what is the best electric motor for any electric powered axes, crushers, lifters, hammers & spinner etc?
3) would there be walker robots?
Watch your logic, yes the robots are bigger but they are heavier (10x heavier!) so you need to fit more powerful weapons, motors batteries and thicker armour. You don't just gain space.

Springs are obsolete in my opinion. By the time you have build a working mechanism and made it reliable you might as well have bought a big servo for the same cost, much less effort, greater reliability and much easier to fix/replace if it breaks.

Almost very weapon you have listed you need a different motor, there is no magic motor that does everything. Lifters are fairly slow but need high torque, axe's and hammers need more torque at around 2-3x the rpm of a lifter, crushers need to have lots of torque and then be geared down to get that slow powerful grip and finally spinners need very high torque and speed and then to be geared down so you can actually hit something. That is all VERY rough but each weapon needs a very different system to drive it.

Finally walker... since the beetles 1.5kg don't actually follow the FRA you would need to ask what counted as a walker and what was counted as a shuffler.

Basically... nothing is straight forward. Everything has to be balanced and tuned.