Event 4 – Robodojo 26/06/21

So where to begin with this event.......

As before I will quickly summarise the event with the good, bad and ugly damage caused. Unfortunately, not all fights are available for viewing but where required, I will attach images.

Brushless Lifter – It was all going so well

After initial testing, I knew that a major change in a short time might come back to bite me. But the main thing to take away was that the mechanism is indeed a lot quicker. What I found was in order to get a “proper lift”, I needed to set aside my mechanical sympathy and just push the stick on the transmitter as quickly as possible. In the future I will be playing with acceleration settings to better utilise the power.
Now to address the elephant in the room. The lifter functioned for around one and a half fights which turned out to be due to the intermediate limit switch board. I will go into this in a later post as it is something I am still looking to rectify. This meant that I did not have a weapon for the remainder of the event.

The Ogrelord Fight

As most may know, Sam Price makes some pretty good, destructive robots. With the allowed inclusion over overhead saws in sportsman for this year, we were all looking forward to finding out how destructive the weapon type could be.
This fight happened to be the one that the lifter failed. I got one lift in, reset the arm and it never moved again. This wasn’t the main event of this fight however due to the gourmet damage inflicted on FeatherDozer that was great to watch (probably). This is one of the fights that I unfortunately do not have recordings for, but the damage is clear to see.
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As you can just see in the image above, Ogrelord just got to the ESC, but did not fully sever the power wires so it kept working.

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Once it was clear that Ogrelord could go through Hardox with ease, Sam let off slightly (Ogrelord be scary).

Despite the damage and lack of a weapon, I manged to win a couple of fights and place 7th overall for the day which isn’t too bad considering.

So, in the next post we will be going over the many repairs from this event and the further testing on what went wrong to the brushless lifter mechanism.