One hours work and the frame work for one panel is done. 15 more to go.

if you have cut all the pieces the same use the first panel as a jig for the rest by welding smal pieces of scrap up each side on the corners this will save you a lot of time once assembled in the jig weld all the corners on the vertical plane first this will stop it twisting then weld each side normally the only thing is you need to do vertical up welds but even tacking the verticals first will keep it mostly straight
cheers andrew

Does anyone in Queensland know where we can find some second hand carpet? If yes flame throwers will be banned.

Carpet in ... arena? How does that work?
You shouldn't find it too hard to come by, if you don't mind flood-soiled.
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Originally posted by Daniel:
Does anyone in Queensland know where we can find some second hand carpet? If yes flame throwers will be banned.

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Building this weekend? My brother has drop saw but hasn't had time to drop it round yet.

How wide is carpet do you want to join it Carpet would also be very interesting for some robots. Lino?
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Building will be done this weekend but we don't need the saw. All the steel has been cut and the jig has been made so it will be just welding this weekend after I pick up some more welding wire.
The idea of the carpet is that we can have a seamless floor so idealy we need a piece 5m square. The difficult part is finding carpet suitible for wedges. Also 2nd hand carpet is right for our budget (ie free).
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What do you think will happen if a spinner gets tipped up so that it's blade contacts the carpet?
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

I dont think carpet is going to last long especialy once it gets a couple of rips and threads strat wraping around axels and wheels etc bots wil be getting imobilised by the arena

We are thinking of an MDF floor for next year, with luck it'll be easy to repair.
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Yes indeed carpet=fail in my opinion as far as arena floor goes.

A nice sturdy thin steel or mdf or general wooden floor should be fine and acceptable for most robot designs

I can see my disc getting entangled in carpet and being a fabric i dont see using it as flooring in an arena ending well for a fair few people.
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We did demos on carpet at the model engineer’s event at Monash years ago.

The bots moved ok, even Cobra with zero ground clearance but that was fastened down properly and there were no spinners to tear it up.

Was going to use Pyrobot in fact worked on him on the weekend so it looks like it will have to be Badger.
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running on it wouldnt be so much trouble as the damage i think. maybe lino would be better or easier to get?

sounds like its coming along well!

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A nice sturdy thin steel or mdf or general wooden floor should be fine and acceptable for most robot designs.

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didnt you guys get a phat wad of cash from the government for this thing?
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