Team Troubles Robot Projects

[calumco]

been a while since i've updated this soooooooooooo

went to reading on sunday by myself unfortunatly as any of my mates who would have wanted to come with me were either at uni or hungover, although was still good fun.

had one fight with not lev 2 and its flipping arm got destroyed for no reason- pics below, spend a few hours on monday fixing it all.

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not only was that bar bend but the whole of the arm its self was also bananna shaped after the fight. - i can't spell bananna.

the robot got stuck against the side barrier for ages i must have had to fire the flipper 15 times to get the robot on its wheels again which i think is when the arm buggered up- with all that power and no robot on the flipping arm to really stop it.

but that wont happen now................

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got some nice comments about pinsor thanks--- although now its claws will need re building other than that it was good.

[calumco]

pics of one of/ or the last feathers im going to build. that flipper i started yonks ago, i think i made the base of the chassis before i made pinsor but got carried away with making pinsor intead so it kind of got shoved aside.

heres a pic of when i first started doing stuff to it again

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heres a pic of how it is as off a few hours ago

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and again with the flipper open

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bottle is in, motors, cylinder and what i would like to think is an over engineered flipper hinge and back end but time will tell

buffer will go in when i get it, waiting for batteries to get delivered and speedos- will hopefully be here by the weekend so i can mount them along with the valve and have a test drive with the flipper going aswell and then finish the rest of the chassis off at some point

as for the heavy...................

motors will arrive soon, got a cylinder, kart wheels, bottle on the way, so still need to get a few parts.

when those motors arrive im going to get some sort of drive section made that will bolt into the heavy when its made, i plan on using gears

[razerdave]

Thats cool looking I'm amazed your robots are in weight when they all have proper steel tube chassis

[muchalucha]

Looking very nice , but is a buffer tank going in there to?

[calumco]

hey yeah it is, im getting one off grant, as they make them but they just need making and then testing or something- not totally sure.

i've got the future buffers dimensions so it will fit in, im going for a 0.5 litre buffer or something around that size-not totaly sure as i've forgot lol

[calumco]

more done today

speedos are in but want wiring up, valve is mounted and all the pneumatics are done- not to the best design really- as theres a few too many elbows for my liking because i had to go around a alot of stuff in the robot with the pipes but still seems alright.

more chassis done but still wants a few more bars adding in and the batteries want going in aswell, so its getting there

pics

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and heres a video of me trying it out self righting,

---its dark lol but it can sort of be seen

when i used to fire the flipper it did turn the robot over but since its alot heavier now it doesn't anymore still waiting on the buffer so it might do after

and tom i can post some pictures of the pneumatics and all the parts still if you'd like.

[muchalucha]

thatd be great !

[RogueTwoRobots]

Looking good - how's it doing for weight?

[leorcc]

Looking good - how's it doing for weight?

I'd like to know as well, it looks heavy.

[calumco]

hey,

its bang on 12 kg, so its abit weighty but its not the end of the world- just the batteries to go in, buffer and 2-3 more chassis bars and then hdpe armour all over probs 6mm or so- im not bothering with a base plate and ill drill holes in the chassis aswell- i've still got to do that with pinsor any how.

will be do-able