Thread: Team Death - New Heavyweight

Another Sunday!

This sunday we worked on the weapons mostly, more specifically the jaws. We've strengthened the links to the jaws further, and drilled holes for the control method for closing and opening them, which will be with chains.
We also started construction on a 'tongue', which will be placed between the jaws, and act as a buffer so spinners and the like cannot damage too deep into the scoop/jaw mechanism.
We made a start on a slab of metal to be used as a tongue, which will basically just act as a stop gap so spinners and similar have something to hit before they hit the back of the jaw mechanism and break something. The tongue may also be used with additional things stuck on to it to aid in this task better against certain bots that appear at the time.
I also brought up a LiPo battery, intended for use later on with a featherweight i'm building as a seperate project. We tested it on the motor, and it all works fine, Colin tested the wheels to see how much force it took to stop them, and seemed impressed! That battery was only running at about 15V, whereas the motors are 24v. So we'll probably buy 2 of those batteries for the heavyweight and double the voltage of what we had for the test. As i'm using the same batteries, it'll also give us a bit of working room between the bots as they're powered by the same stuff, so we can team up on the battery side and bring double the spares with us for each event. LiPos are new to Colin, who has always used more traditional batteries on his previous bots many years ago, and seemed impressed with them!


Todays images,
1) The huge slab of metal we started out with to create the tongue, we didn't complete this today, and focused on strengthening the jaws. It's currently in two slabs for completing during the week or on Sunday.
2) The rear of the scoop on both sides now has a hole, which will be used for the chain to draw back and forth the scoops. We'll probably go back closer to the end and cover up these little bits of the mechanism so hammer/axe bots can't mess up the chains and such.
3 & 4) Some beauty shots demonstrating the jaw functionality. Later on in the build we have some ideas to grip onto any bots that stray into its jaws, so they can't just drive back out!