Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 3110
Location: Castle Hill, Sydney. N.S.W
looks pretty cool man, tested it on anything yet?
If possible would look into something to protect them wheels, maybe some rubber tire bent around the sides of the robot to form a shock resistant air gap away from delicates.
Looks pretty funky though man, hope it does well
Also u need a place to crash while down here, you never really mentioned last time i asked. _________________ Andrew Welch, Team Unconventional Robotics
Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:26 pm
dyrodium Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 24 Aug 2004
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Location: Sydney
If that thing gets a hold of a wheel it looks like it could cause some nasties. Looks like it could take care of them twackbots too.
welch is right with some light tire or rubber, I have a scooter tire here that could be hacked in half on the day if you so choose.. _________________ ( •_•)
Joined: 30 Aug 2005
Posts: 2729
Location: Gold Coast
The current weight is 11kg. With LiPol's and electricals I have bugger all left over. That's why I didn't add the wheel gaurds as I knew from the CAD that there was no way to add them without going over weight. I've even tried Sidewinder style polycarb claws.
Unfortually I never make things as neat as my drawings and the bolts on the jaw mechanism are locked in tight. The jaws still open and close freely but I can't remove the bolts and I can't weld in a small bit of cross bracing I need. So I'll hammer them out and either dremel out the holes or replace the 1/2" bolts with M12 bolts. Unfortuantly this means I have run out of time to get it ready for next weekend and I actually spent the afternoon welding steel plates to Hellcat.
Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:04 pm
Daniel Experienced Roboteer
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Location: Gold Coast
Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:28 pm
andrew
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 3110
Location: Castle Hill, Sydney. N.S.W
looks interesting
how r u going to mount the sprockets to the trolley wheels while keeping everything centred, i tried it with the oatley sprockets and although close had numerous issues
Also if the jaw was vertical with some form of a scoop there or something you could drive into the opponent and have them slightly wedged then the jaw3 from top and bottom close in on it
Horizontally there isnt a wide mouth to get robots into unless its a small part say like a wheel or corner of a frame or something _________________ Andrew Welch, Team Unconventional Robotics
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