360 - mini hypnodisc

[mattsdragons]

its got the pushing power aswell, the drum just makes it that little bit more interesting

[PJ-27]

I wouldn't sniff at 2.2kg for a spinning weapon! Drum or not, that's gunna hurt!

Also have any of your seen 540 in action? It could have a sponge on the front and it would kick arse! If it lasted 3 minutes without destroying itself that is................

[Mouldy]

not done an update in ages, not really done much...

got a plate of D2 tool steel and milled it down to 25mm thick at robochallenge HQ;



then droped it of to draftek (http://www.draftek.co.uk/) who are based down the road from me who water jet the beater out, as per the cad i sent them... it turned out like this;



...next to the bot;



hopefully poping to ed's tomorow to put the bearings into the bearing blocks, then back to robochallenge to turn the beater edges down to a round profile to fit in... not long until it should be spinning.

[harry hills]

wow, that is a beatuful machine you have there, what kind of damage do you think you'll do with that?

[PJ-27]

What's your thinking with the beater's shape Dave? Looks a little like a space invader!

[Mouldy]

@Harry... not much...hopefully it will just flip other robots in the air and chew em up a bit...

@PJ... duno it just turned out that way... didnt want to go for the normal hollowed out box shape of all the US beaters...i like it.

[Mouldy]

more progress;

Im upgrading the drive from dewalts to speed 900, mainly for reliability reasons... and because i want it to be faster then it currently is in low gear... so with the help of Dennis Martens this has been drawn up, and the parts ordered;





prototype gearbox plate machined on Dennis's home made cnc;



...they should mate up with the original mount for the dewalts, so will be totaly interchangeable.

[Mouldy]

Beater mounted;


Few bits n bobs to Finnish up and it'll be ready for a spin up

[jonny]

nice! what's happening with 360? does it still work?

[Mouldy]

its stacked away, needs some work doing... a lot of the threads have stripped in the disc mount, needs new brass gears for the drive also...ill re-build it, but it will probably only be used in white boards/demos etc... ill use 540 for competitions now.