Previous and current (built) robots:


S l a v e
Featherweight
2009
http://robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1366&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Retired - Link shows Slave's last configuration before it was retired due to bent/warped shell Dec 2009


C a r b i n e
2010
Beetleweight
http://robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1366&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60
Superseded - by Polycarbine - Nov 2010


V e n a t o r
2010
Featherweight
http://www.robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62124#62124
Decommissioned, rebuilt into Das Boot


P o l y c a r b i n e
2010
Beetleweight
http://www.robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=64785#64785
Superseded by Hammerhead


A r i s a m a
2010
Antweight (150g)
Builder / Driver: Melissa
http://www.robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=65095#65095
Retired


M u l c h
2011
Beetleweight
http://robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=66531#66531
Retired


I m p e r a t o r
2011
Beetleweight
http://www.robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=71329#71329
Stripped down



M i n i . C a r b i n e
2011
Antweight (UK) 150g
http://www.robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=71329#71329
Stripped down for rebuild


C a r b i n e . I I
2011
Beetleweight
http://www.robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=74784#74784
Destroyed


H a m m e r h e a d
2012
Beetleweight
http://www.robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=77273#77273
Active


C a t a s t r o p h e
2012
Featherweight
(Design and initial build by Angus Deveson, refinements by Glen Rose)
http://www.robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=58221#58221 (Angus's build thread)
http://robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=78206#78206 (this thread)
Active


D a s . B o o t
2013
Featherweight - Sportsman class
http://robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=82968#82968
Active


ACHEIVEMENTS

Hammerhead - Robowars Nationals QLD 2012 - First Place - Beetleweight class
Das Boot - Robowars Sydney 2013 - Second Place - Featherweight Sportsman class
Catastrophe - Robowars Nationals QLD 2013 - Semi Finalist (4th outright) - Featherweight class

Two time recipient of the NSWRFC "Fail Award"


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*** First post about Slave's initial profile retained for the sake of record keeping / first post retention for thread continuity, post follows ***

Robot : Slave
Team : Jaemus
Builder : Jaemus + Assistance (most likely from Bort)
Driver : Jaemus
Class : Featherweight
Chassis/Armour : 2.3mm steel with 0.9mm stainless steel sandwich/composite? armour, shell-frame design, steel top plate, 22.5deg deflection angle sides
Weapon : Interchangeable. First planned weapon is belt driven counter-rotating twin horizontal spinners side by side, with a gap in between to provide inertial crushing / jamming effect, powered by 300w scooter motor
Drive : 100w scooter motor x2 V-belt driven dual Bunnings Red wheels @ 24v
Controller : FM 4ch and Servo switching or Scorpion XXL
Batteries : NiCd or NiMH 24v packs or 12v SLA 2.3Ah x2
Announced (goto for build): http://robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1366&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

thats the plan atm anyway. so far i have drawn it all to scale and acquired a number of parts and materials (largely thanks to Bort)

Last edited by Jaemus on Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:53 am; edited 45 times in total

in regards to that weapon design there is a dude on the rfl forum who thinks just like you

http://forums.delphiforums.com/THERFL/messages/?msg=5883.1
(go to progress reports,click on '103** Msgs' and go down to Dual Horizontal Spinner)

also here shows how he drove the disks, friction drive so he could counter-rotate them
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25465319@N08/2394745510/in/photostream/

good luck!
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ooh, great link, interesting videos

tho i should have said when i said dual spinner i meant seperate, spaced out discs,

im going for the concept that they will be able to lock up a robot if im lucky and hold it between because they will be spinning inward, and probably 2 teeth each (if they dont grab, it does damage so its win win), and in all other cases it just increases the frontal area which i can do damage from.

ill put up drawings soon

So basically 2 big vertical eyes on the front of the robot? Side by Side or One above the other? Or i should stop asking and wait for the pictures

so you are after a horizontal inertia crusher right?
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haha ive seen the secret plans looks well thought out and should be pretty robust with the kinda parts in there, especially with the slanted sides

- horizontal inertial crusher WHAT THE FFUU

u know, have two horizontal disks spinning inwards and when something gets caught up in the middle, it instantly crushes. like a fast crusher using the inertia of the disks.
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XD yes we need the input of people who have built and competed for a while nao. I get what he means. The disks of choice wouldn't happen to be those snak masheen ones Andrew bought off me looong ago?
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yes, thats the plan, and yes, those are the proposed discs

atm im trying to decide just how slanted the sides should be.

currently ive drawn it with a 22.5' angle on the sides, but im worried this might not be sufficient to be effective enough to bother with.



here's whats on my desk right now. There is a corresponding pile of motors and wheels etc on the bench in the garage

The centre drawing shows the robot with the proposed twin spinner, but not the interchangeable weapon setup.

You can see at the extreme left a side elevation view. There is a lightly drawn full scale outline showing the angle of the sides, what do you think? needs more?

Hi Jaemus,

I think that angle looks fine - my drumbot's rear wedge is of a similar angle and it works well to counter both horizontal and vertical spinners. The vertical discs can't get any decent purchase on it and horizontal spinning discs just seem to glide across it. Works well.

Nice looking design by the way - good luck with the build
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yeah angle looks fine. think demons is about that and it bent up badgers tooth pretty good and didnt take any damage itself.

for the panels though you can make the highlighted parts in one piece - will save you alot of work cutting and welding its not too hard to work out how to do the cut if you make a cardboard model or just do it in CAD

awesome. was hoping it'd be enough as any more is going to add weight and size i dont really want.

so cut those shapes out as one peice and bend them? i was pondering doing something like that

shouldnt require any bending to do a shape like that unless you wanted to work out some giant template and fold the whole frame up as one piece, i think new solidworks even has a function that lets you do that

in the pic theres 7 pieces of metal on one side to make the main chassis - you could get away with only 4

bit like on cobra basically the same shape - http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v357/Cobrarobotics/?action=view&current=DSC01096.jpg

cardboard/CAD/trigonometry all work.

Looking good.
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