Clusterbot

[leorcc]

I can see it now, the clusterbots magnet attaches itself to small torques scoop, so she can make a dash across the arena with it.

[anukhet]

.... and straight into the pit as usual

[ady]

or knowing my luck i will use the gaffer tape idea, it will come undone and get tangled around my wheels and imobilize my own robot.

[leorcc]

well, half of it.

Gary, didnt the typhoon twins use string or something along those lines?


(Message edited by leorcc on August 23, 2007)

[psycho_fling]

couldnt you just weld bolt a bar onto one side of one of the cluister bots, then on the corrsponding side side of the other one a piece of box section, which the bar would fit into to?

dont know if it would help, or just cause more problems

just my idea,

alex

[typhoon_driver]

yeah we used exceptionally thin wire cable and a painted bit of paper over the top of the bots to make the two look like one.

[robotwars]

Adrian,

We use a 50% rule... ·

Cluster bots, if 50% or more of the clusters becomes immobile or knocked out, all of the clusters are deemed to be knocked out.

If one weighs 5.5kg and the other 6.5kg, and the 5.5kg one gets knocked out, then you will still be classed as mobile.

if they both weigh the same and one gets knocked out, then they are both knocked out.

I dont believe there is an actual rule on the linking mech, however i would like to think an effort would be made to physically link them together. Maybe something better than Gaffer tape.

John
http://www.RoamingRobots.co.ukwww.RoamingRobots.co.uk

[ady]

cheers jonno, i will go with my quick release bolt idea.

(Message edited by ady on August 23, 2007)

[robotwars]

i had designed a clusterbot a few years ago, and i used a simple system which used a servo which pulled a pin.

A very lightweight, and simple design.

John