Martyn's Robot Wars Series 5

[mrdaves]

The Linear Mover

Mass - I don€™t know(with any luck within 200 kg )
Weapons - A 6-bar spinner (weighing 26 kg) (Bar sits on top) with the ends bent downwards to stop robots getting underneath. The bar is powered by a Lem 130 at 48 volts, and spins to about 3000 rpm. The bar has suspension on it, so it can hit hard objects without breaking
Srimech - It has a large pole on the top to self-right
Velocity - 02(TWO) mph!!!
Ground clearance - At lowest, with the legs up, the base is on the ground, with the legs down it is 1cm.
Skirts - Nah, the legs go up.
Wheel Type - 8 legs with a linear actuator in the middle of the legs motion, so is the leg. When the actuator retracts, the leg goes forwards, and when the actuator is at the end of its movement, the leg is going backwards. It€™s a bit like a train (Ta for Mr Frank). There is a 2nd linear actuator on each leg to lift it up, mainly to allow the first actuator to go back without moving.
Motors - No Thanks, I will pass on having drive motors this time
Batteries - Enough to survive 6 minutes of fighting action.
Body Shape - Cut-Off cone, with Ziggo style Srimech bar
Armour - 4mm titanium cone, with steel inner section/base.
Colour - The bar is red

Summary - It€™s a walker designed with those anti-walkers in mind, if the system doesn€™t class as a proper walker, nothing will. Thanks to Frank for suggestions.
Strengths - Weapon, 360 degree attack, Srimech, Most of weight is in base
Weaknesses - Crap at turning, crap speed, not the best to drive.

[mrdaves]

Ingore those stats please mr martyn:

The Linear Mover

Mass - I don€™t know (with any luck within 200 kg )

Weapons - A spinning semi-shell (aka Typhoon), powered by a Lem 200 at 48 volts. The shell weighs in the region off 45 kg and takes ~ 2 seconds to spin up fully to 950 rpm, with the gearing from the motor. The shell has blades, 4 on the bottom level (1mm from base) and 4, 5cm up. The blades up a bit are longer so that it hits with 2 blades. The shell itself has rubber suspension to take

Srimech - It has a large pole on the top to self-right; it€™s bent at the end

Velocity - Two mph!!!

Ground clearance - At lowest, with the legs up, the base is on the ground, with the legs down it is 1cm, but it changes when walking.

Skirts - Nah, it€™s variable ground clearance, so skirts would get in the way.

Wheel Type - 8 legs with a linear actuator in the middle of the legs motion, so is the leg. When the actuator retracts, the leg goes forwards, and when the actuator is at the end of its movement, the leg is going backwards. It€™s a bit like a train (Ta for Mr Frank). There is a 2nd linear actuator on each leg to lift it up, mainly to allow the first actuator to go back without moving the robot back. There is a back-up system in which the entire leg system can drop down to lift the base off the ground to move.

Motors - No Thanks, I will pass on having drive motors this time

Batteries - Enough to survive 6 minutes of fighting action.

Body Shape - Cut-Off cone, with Ziggo style Srimech bar

Armour -6mm titanium cone. Steel chassis, aluminium legs.

Colour - The bar is red

Summary - It€™s a walker designed with those anti-walkers in mind, if the system doesn€™t class as a proper walker, nothing will. Thanks to Frank for suggestions.
Strengths - Weapon, 360 degree attack, Srimech, Most of weight is in base.
Weaknesses - Crap at turning, crap speed, not the best to drive

Yep, Im that bored.

[mrdaves]

Unpretty picture here - http://www.geocities.com/mrdave1986/TheLinearMover.bmphttp://www.geocities.com/mrdave1986/TheLinearMover.bmp

[knightrous]

Build it and Ill believe it.

The reason the UK vapourbots are dieing is because people like you, Dave, are constantly trying to pass off cannon fodder as entries.

Damn I miss the days of SpinVerter 3, VGer and The Robot That Wasnt There.

[mrdaves]

If this walker isnt a true walker in the terms of martyn, then what is? I designed it with the Fra walking rules in mind, so no cams, no chains, no gears.

[knightrous]

It is a true walker. According to the rules, Ill give you that, it looks almost the same as the Jim Struts/Miss Struts walking mech.

The whole cam situation only applies to people mounting off centred wheels (CAMS) and calling them walkers. One of Christian Carlbergs robots was like this and was quickly banned.

[pcbore]

V-gers still around, so 1 out of 3 aint bad.

...Actually, yes it is. Its only 33%

[mrdaves]

Tony, stop being so picky

quote:

It is a true walker. According to the rules, Ill give you that, it looks almost the same as the Jim Struts/Miss Struts walking mech.

Thats whats it suppose to be, an old-school walker which are slow, crap to turn and normally have limited runs. If I wanted a fast walker, I would just use the shuffler system called Anarchy. Besides like I been asking, what other weapon are you suppose to put on a 2 mph walker to give it some hope...

... a flipper?