Team Troubles Robot Projects

**calumco** · 10th April 2010, 20:35

been ages since an update, robots came along a bit more since i last updated this, but havnt felt very motivated to do much robot stuff for the last month or so but with broke/unfinished robots i decided to pull my finger out again. managed to do some last saturday

this is how it currently is....

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with those 2 side pod type bits lightened like that thats taken 150g out of each one so when all four are done thats 600 grams off the weight already- weights dropping off! also that ram weighs 2.3kg lol wen i've got all the robot done im getting kenny to make a new but lighter one to the same dims hopefully

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but few people have been giving me ideas and daves bin moanin at me sayin 'its too tall' and wen i had it flipping before it bent all the shafts on the flipper arm and ram i didnt manage to try self writing from its side and i didnt have spares to try it again but i dont think it will anyway. good new is i've got plans about that- pic below.....

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since its so tall its got alot of wasted height, so if i move the ram to one side, i can lie the bottle down and im thinking about cutting the top of the ali chassis off to about 20mm above the side pod bits so the buffer still fits in as is, so its more explosion shaped, cut new flipper arms- same look but so it follows the rest of the robot where i would have cut it down at the back then i can have a simple hole at the back for the bottles valve

will put each sides electronize speedo in each sides pod section as space inside the robot will be tight but will be nicly compact then ti sheet i've got over the flipper -and it shud be little hitter proof lol

gonna try get it cut down next saturday and try get new flipper arms cut on the same day

**calumco** · 15th June 2010, 15:29

nothing done on robots what so ever for a while now, pinsors still broke and everything else is in bits either under my bed or in my shed.

but, with the feather uk champs commin up i wana get something ready for that, i would be taking my drum spinner which is litterally just waiting for the drum to be ready, but its a case of kenny finding the time to do it

so i've got a hardox disk - which most people seem to have one of:P, speed 900 spare and drill motors and speedos and a mahoosive amount of batteries lying around so im gonna make a vert spinner with it all in the style of 259- 4 wheel drive off 2 drill motors, hardox lower outer skirts as a kinda strong buffer round the edge against other spinners and gonna try make the skirts flat to the floor to stop nicks bar spinner gettin underneath n gettin the wheels- if hes still makin it,

will litterally be a 1 event robot am gonna go all out with it n see what is re usable afterwards

not gonna bother with a srimech-how ever spelt, cos its extra weight use n i wana make it solid as possible if it goes up against other spinners so i can reverse into them etc. pic of few bits below.

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will be doing it week nights after work now as i have absoultly no time anymore to really do any robot stuff- but will be able to manage a few nights a week

as for broken robots they'll be stayin broken for a while yet cos i wana try get doin my heavy wen i get the stuff off grant in july and the hardox sheets- gonna take it slow and get it ready for next year

**calumco** · 25th July 2010, 18:03

ok so that feather i was on about doing i decided i couldnt be bothered making it, so if my drums done intime ill bring my drumbot and if its not ill give the event a miss.

bin spending odd hours every now again doing stuff to my ali feather which looks quite a bit different now:-

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inside theres like no space for anything lol, the valve imma have to tape to the ram or something. just batteries to go in under the ram, speedos 1 in each sides pod, make a new bottle holder and cut the back armour down n do a hole in it for acess to the bottle valve, and lastly strengthen the arm n take all the excess ali out the main bulkheads and baseplate

**calumco** · 25th July 2010, 18:16

And heres a picture of the state pinsors in at the minute, don't actually have any good pics of it whilst it was lookin sweet- probably shudda took some whilst i had the chance because it now looks like this :P.......

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thanks to major damage and little hitter to name a few, but it'll be back eventually wen i mod it properly

also feels good to have got all the robots out my room and put em in ma shed feels like i've got my bedroom floor back

**xtreme** · 25th July 2010, 22:22

Pinsor looked sweet? When? Just messin mate, everythings looking good. the ali feathers looking 100 times better now.
We makin new claws for pinsor when it gets the new motor in?

**calumco** · 26th July 2010, 06:54

you offering to make some for me? lol

might make em outta some 3.2 hardox so its all 1 piece and wud be lighter aswell- dunno yet havn't thought that far ahead

**RogueTwoRobots** · 26th July 2010, 11:55

Furthest ahead I've thought on mine is replacing the actuator. Not sure what with yet but anything will be better than that pile of...ahem...that we both used

Oh and fingers crossed for the drumbot being at the champs

**calumco** · 26th July 2010, 18:38

you used the same actuator as me didnt you? we wudda got more force if we closed the claws using our hands lol

im putting that carjack mech in i was on about, just need to get round to doing it haha

**calumco** · 19th September 2010, 19:52

can't believe it but its been over a month since i did anything to my ali feather just goes to show the major lack of free time i have these days lol but i had nothing to do today so did some more to it, pics below..

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managed to get the valve to fit in properly which is a win, im off work tomorrow so ill do some more, needs battery mounts doing, and then sort the flipepr arm out and fingers crossed i can do a wire up and a test drive and flip etc, just off 1 bar with the chassis near enough empty it almost turned its self over lol so wen its at 10bar it shud be pretty sweet.

**calumco** · 26th September 2010, 14:06

finished the arm yesterday, fired it at 3/4 pressure it'll eventually run at and after so many flips it started bending lol. with the ram to the side it twisted the arm and its bent the top section of box section into a bannana shape where the ram connects to it, so all in all not great but its crazily good for LP

bent the arm back easily enough, so just needs beefing up somehow and i got some ideas (Y) win