Mute

[kevin]

I have to say that Mute is one of the more brillant robots of the combat robot world. It adds more action in flipping and self-rghting.

[stu]

Daniel - where the hell have you been!?
You better come to the Winter Tour matey! Were all missing you and Adam and mainly Jez

Mr Stu

[kevin]

How much did it cost to build Mute in all?

(Message edited by kevin on August 19, 2005)

[kevin]

Would it be possible to build a featherweight version of Mute?

[ewan]

Thats a stupid question, there is no perfect answer, do you mean a featherweight with two flippers? If so, then yes its perfectly possible but stupidly pointless in a featherweight. As to the how much mute cost, its cetainly worth over two grand.

[mute]

Ooo missed this one.

Cost wise, no idea. Mute has been running for 5 years now and has changed dramatically from its original form. The only original bits are the ally chassis and 2mm stainess steel skin. But from current parts alone Id say in the region of £2500 excluding the valves because they took about 6 months of tinkering before we got them working properly. For the rams you are looking at about maybe £15 each for materials and about 8 hours machining per ram.

Featherweight Mute, well Ive got it all drawn up - even got the chassis cut too. It had a full pressure gas system idential to Mute but with 4x 3/4 rams and front and rear flippers. I doubt it would have stood up to todays spinners though as the armour would have been a bit thin!

And Mute is 24V not 36

Hope that covers everything.

[Mouldy]

1x Custom mad Pneumatic system= 2000

Ian- I dont charge myself for engineering fees, I doubt the mute team do either

When making custom parts the only thing you as the builder need pay for is materials and finding time to make stuff.

You would charge the time and labour costs onto whoever you sell the components.

[beast]

Ian you should not build an exact copy of any Bot try come up with your own idear (may be edit a little )