Start of a new robot hopefully completed for Robowars 2.

This is one of two bots I am having a go at, which ever is closest to completion will compete in RW2, or worst case I'll drag Arachnophobia out.

Frame completed.
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Sounds nasty David, I hope you have seen a doctor about it.

Might have to invent Penisylin to take care of that before it spreads.

Whatever you do, dont scratch it.
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My mate caught Syphilis from stealing stuff out of a Gnomes pants in a game of Dungeons & Dragons He wasn't able to roll anything higher then a 3 and contracted it. When he met a copper dragon and was slained, we left him

Arachniphobia was great, what's this one going to be like!
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I think Arachnophobia would have to win some sort of award for one of the "most improved" robots.

I'm working on editing the video's from RoboWars 2003 at the moment, and just did an Arachnophobia vs Pinshcer one and the difference between Arachnophobia on 12v at RoboWars and it on 24v at Marayong is amazing.

I dont think too many people would have been too scared of it at RoboWars (although it looked the best of the bots there), but at Marayong it beat up Battle Damage quite severely, took out Pinschers wheel, broke off Glen's Pick, and no doubt did plenty of other damage I missed, as well as refusing to die no matter how much Plan-B chewed it up.

I look forward to seeing David's next artisitc creations..
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they scored the best hit on us of any bot there
well most damaging anyway
put a hole just above (or below i cant rember) our disk (right on the edge of the armor).


i think it was where our wepon drive pully was too so had there been a little more penitration they may have damaged that too.

Syph has been on the backburner for a while, but its now a POP and the DIY motor controller is some C-code from reality. It is my intention to have it ready for the 17th.

The form of Syph is now more concrete.

Featherweight

Drive - a single 300W oatley scooter motor
Power - two 12V 7.5Ah SLAs
Self Righting Mechanism - irrelevent for design, always vertically 'upright'
Weapon - ramming and possibly reaction arm.
Enclosure - Hexagon shaped 5mm polycarb for batteries, controller and motor.
Chassis - based on wheels and enclosure.
Wheels - two 5mm thick steel, laser cut (diatom styled for that microbe look) and one roller blade wheel on reaction arm.
Control - AT90S2313 based single channel PWM custom controller with fail-safe LED.
R/C - either the old 27 MHz stuff or new 72 MHz set (time & $ dependant)

Its not based on any previous robot combat designs as far as I can tell. The design has a few side effects some are good, one of them is that if you ram into a wall it will actually manouver its away from the wall without manual intervention. Bad side effects - it can't rotate on the spot, and directional control is possible but a steep learning curve to master (based on a dodgy scale model).
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This almost sounds like a RC unicycle Some pictures would be nice to see when you get the chance David. It's always good to see your bot/s with there unique style
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Its been a long time coming along, but the wheels have been laser cut. The guys think I'm crazy, the wheels are about 30 cm diameter but have 6 metres of laser cutting because of the design, it decadent but I dig it.

Got a 75 MHz set to test out, the pollak 75A switch, two 60A relays wired, Atmel board loaded (no software as yet! you get diamonds under pressure as my old boss would say), Two bi-color 10 mm LEDs and three 40A amp MOSFETs in parallel.

Now to join them together.

Unfortunately I have misplaced the lefthand thread nut from the 300 W motor, so I have to find that baby - I don't want to think about the options in the little days I have left on this project.
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