For those interested in such things I thought I would up date the work on The Saint, the Cardiff event was a good testing ground for the new weapon I made.
It FAILED in all-important respects, I profiled the tip for armour piercing and it pierced the arena floor easily and stuck my robot to it. So I lost the competition fight to Barbaric Response again!
I have now got rid of the spike part of the weapon and will be relying on the axe type edge for points scoring.
The other failure was the link access hatch cover, this doesn€™t sound too important but I think in the very last fight of the day I had an intermittent failure of power because the link became dislodged. The link and hatch cover position is critical so that when the cover is closed and locked, the link can never come out, (unless it has found a way of passing through 3mm of hardened steel.)
On the plus side The Saint did drive itself out of the pit twice and quite easily (I drove it in.) :shock: :shock:
I have modified the hubcaps to assist the role recovery of the machine and this has worked well. The conveyor belt round the body of the robot is working well, it has been penetrated in a couple of places but it was designed as a sacrificial barrier and seems to be doing a good job in protesting the outer steel body.
The crowed seemed to like the crazy antics of The Saint, and so do I
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
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