some help for a newbie?

**harry hills** · 26th April 2011, 18:38

hey guys, i am a real robot builder (and have been for over a year now) mostly ants and fleas but i do have a feather and a half built heavyweight, and i was wondering weather have a bash a something like this. can some charitable person please educate the thicky as to how these sorts of things work.
thanks,
harry

**joey_picus** · 26th April 2011, 19:34

viewtopic.php?f=201&t=2024 should tell you most of what you need to know, hopefully...in short, it's basically designing one's dream robots without spending any money at all or having to worry about repairs

**harry hills** · 26th April 2011, 20:14

cheers joey

i have had a breif read through that so i will try to cobble together something in the mess of wires and biscuit crumbs that is my brain

try not to laugh too hard now...

**harry hills** · 26th April 2011, 20:32

name: metanoia

weight: 100kg

shape: kind of hard to describe, vaugly (however its spelt) triangular but with a curved back and flat sides(i will include a picture soon to make it clear)

wheels: 10 pneumatic wheelchair wheels

motors: 24v wheelchair motors adapted to make them go faster (9:1 ratio i think)

speed: probably 10mph give or take, not that fast though

turning circle: 0

armour: 4mm steel box section frame with 12mm red hpde armour and 8mm steel front(8mm hdpe bottom) 14 mm polycarbonate top

ground clearance: 4mm at front 2cm at back

scrimech: two linac powered 20mm polycarbonate arms each side capable of lifing it back onto its wheels

weapon: pneumaticly powered flipper (no idea of power yet will find a suitable sized ram tomorow)
what do you think?

**joey_picus** · 26th April 2011, 22:34

It's not bad at all, the main issue I can see right now is that it's a bit underpowered compared to most fanfic robots ;P A while ago I did a table that shows the relative power and weight of several commonly used fanfic motors, feel free to look in there and choose something suitable. For reference, a lot of fanfic heavyweights use either the A28-400 Mags at 24v or the 36v LEM130s and have speeds between 12-20mph.