No update in a while! Been busy working on my feather. I finally printed some nylon spaces for the chassis and cut some threaded bars to size. I also had to redrill some holes as they needed to be slightly wider. Heres a chassis semi assembled:
looks awsome whats it weighing in at
A thought about those front forks. When the bot is upside down the weapon will, in effect, be spinning downwards, so if it hits something it will end up trapping whatever it hits between the forks and the weapon will stop. While this probably not going to break the weapon, it may well bend the forks and it will give the weapon motor and belt a massive shock. Given my new version of Conker is very similar I have been thinking about this a lot, and I believe you only need forks on one side so you can use the weapon to self right on the arena wall/opponent when the wrong way up.
Wouldn't the articulated forks just move out of the way as the bot flips itself over? And does this mean that Conker now has articulated forks?
If he can't hit anything because the forks are sticking out, he cant turn himself back over. Also, if they can swing out the way then there is the potential to get beached on your own forks.
And no, Conker doesn't have forks.
Sounds like Alasdair is completely forked...
Weight wise the frame is a lot heavier than I'd like :P Its 900g or so. I need to replace the outter side panels with HDPE instead of alu, as those are currently weighing a lot, and it'll probably play nicer with other spinners then too. Gotta print out all of the nylon parts this week, mainly motor mounts and pulleys/wheels. Going to be experimenting with 3D printed rubber tires too.
Getting that in weight is probably going to be tricky with a 900g frame, Hyperion's was only around 450 and it is only 25g under the limit now it's finished. It looks fantastic though, looking forward to seeing it in combat.
I'm still alive!! I moved jobs, so low on free time recently, but starting to settle down again. Here is a belt drive test, its way too slack at the moment, gotta either get small belts or increase the diameter of the idlers.
Please excuse my TX screaming at me in the background, the battery was very low but I didn't want to swap it out before capturing a video quickly tonight
Belts need to be much tighter, so there is no slack at all, but aside from that... this is an amazing first build! Dat CNC!
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