Team Whyachi's New Bot

[mikeyg]

http://www.teamwhyachi.comhttp://www.teamwhyachi.com

Halfway down the page, a video of Warrior, which I assume is attending the FRA Champs.

[mikeyg]

Like nothing Ive seen before!

FBS with flipper on top. I cant tell if the spinning section is a weapon in itself, but it seems to be powering the flipper! Like clockwork.

[woody]

http://www.teamwhyachi.com/warrior.htmhttp://www.teamwhyachi.com/warrior.htm

I think that this is the more likely contender.....the video seems to be either a middle or a feather??!!!

[jhq]

omg...

whyachi guys always have some kind of new suprise...

ive been thinking if spinner energy could be used for flipping, and now these boys did it

[ewan]

Theres only one word for that robot- wow

[craig_anto]

No Woody is a heavy its bigger than u think spinner flipper could be very cool

[armadrillo]

NICE!!

It looks like the spinner is a weapon as you can see the blades on the spinner. Very impressive!

[knightrous]

We designed a similar idea for our Heavyweight which gives us a fast spin up time due to the dual stage flywheel. We had plans for a flipper onteh front powered by the flywheel, but weight run out and we canned the idea. My team mate is now building a featherweight/lightweight using a vert flywheel to store energy for a flipper.

The only problem I see with the Whyachi bot is that it seems to stall the flywheel when the flipper fires.

[fluppet]

...which at least confirms that its the spinner energy which is being used for the flipper (rather than a secondary CO2 cylinder like, IIRC, ROTAS).

Interesting, but it puts a lot of force on whichever mechanism is responsible for converting the spin to a flip. Wasnt the theory that you can store more energy in CO2 than in batteries anyway?

Still, itll be interesting to see it run. Its certainly one way to give your flipper some defence...

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Fluppet