Advice/ideas on my design please

[elobire]

you may want to know that with a disk you wont be able to enter most events.

[PanelSmart]

hi guys, I wont be taking this robot to competitions im just building it for the experiance and practice.

Been playing with google sketch up, its the first time I used it though so its abit rough haha

[PanelSmart]

The wheels I have for it are about 7 or 8 diameter, would 2 12v motors from robochallage be upto the job with wheels this size? I want bigger than the 4 blue ones if they're on show

[xtreme]

Is there a reason your going for such a big wheels on the robot?
I will have enough stuff kicking around to make a basic robot. I can dig some stuff out for you if you want. I could even wire up a basic drive system for you to have a play with then you can just take it apart and build a new robot out of the bits. Would be a bit ghetto. Drill motors, drill batterys, electronize speedos or I have some new blue RC Smart speedos that iv never used, you could use them. Then all stuck inside an old robot chassis or onto a HDPE baseplate or something. Just depends how good u want your first one to be. Youd just need radio gear.

[PanelSmart]

I like big wheels

That would be great how much would you want for that? I could collect amd have a chat if you dont mind to

[elobire]

i dont really see the point in building a robot that will never enter competitions. if you just want experiance make a simple rambot.

[PanelSmart]

Because the more complex this one is the more I will learn for my next one that I do want to enter competitions with :P

Which leads to hopefully being more reliable in battle

[elobire]

maybe but a disk is alot more complecated than is expected, as well as its dangerous.
you may as well make a robot that you will battle and get some experiance going to events.

[PanelSmart]

hello iv been thinking about alot....

If I made a flipper, which way is best for the flipper to flip lol also are they not really hard to make and involve hydrolics? :shock:

[Laser]

Flippers are quite hard to make for a first timer (as I discoverd) an they involve pnuematics.You could always make an electric lifter.