or do u mean battle rat
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or do u mean battle rat
There was no mention of a Battle Rat, lets not make the situation anymore complicated than the one that is being created here by saying that
The featherweight will be fairly quick I suppose, possibly even fairly competitive with some of the other feathers.
Well said!Originally Posted by Anttazz
There was no mention of a Battle Rat, lets not make the situation anymore complicated than the one that is being created here by saying that
This is going to be long but we all have to start somewhere
true :P
im goin to put 15mm mild steel on it and try to put a small spinner on the back
Use hdpe it's a lot easier to work with than metal( as I'm finding out the hard way) for a first robot.
15mm mild steel? you do know the density of steel 7.8g/cm squared (and hdpe is 0.94g/cm squared). it will also be a pain to work with and more expensive than hdpe in that thickness. for a first robot i really wouldn't recommend building a spinner! they can only be used 3 times a year, also you won't be able to build one and stay within you £200 budget
You mean a mobile phone vibrator motor with toothpick as spinner, and a drivetrain with a single 500mAh lipo battery , because 15mm steel is rather heavy.
Not even BonX used that thick a plate. Imagine a robot with a footprint of 250*200mm, 50mm high internaly.
Bottom/top plate alone would weight 12 kg. front and back plates 4.7 kg, sideplates 3.7 kg.
=20.4kg (in HDPE that's only 2.5 kg)
15mm thick steel, I don't even know any heavies that used that as main structural armor or frame. Spinners, as a weapon, yes, but that's about all.
squared? by your logic the thickness of the steel doesn't affect the weight as it is only two dimensions which are counted, you mean cubed! and i imagine that what he meant to write was 1.5mm thick mild steel
What weight class are you going for?
I guess featherweight
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