New featherweight for QLD Non-Spinner events and NSW RoboWars Sportsman event.
Specifications
Chassis/Armour:
3mm Hardox, 3mm Steel and 5mm Aluminium
Weapon:
360 degree lifter/flipper/rotatorvator power buy a 750W winch motor with 153:1 gearbox. Interchangeable shovel, pitch forks or hammers
Drive:
18V DeWat 3-speed gearmotors
Controller:
BotBitz 85A ESCs for drive, BotBitz 85A ESC for weapon (with future Teensy2 addon board to turn weapon into jumbo servo)
Batteries:
18.5v 5S Turnigy NanoTech 4500mAh 70C LiPol _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
Last edited by Knightrous on Fri Sep 04, 2015 8:54 pm; edited 2 times in total
Sun May 05, 2013 10:42 pm
Jaemus Experienced Roboteer
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Location: NSW
Haha, pitchforks
BTW im pretty sure the idea with the Sportsman class was not to use wearplate grade or exotic alloys like Hardox _________________ <Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
Mon May 06, 2013 4:54 pm
dyrodium Experienced Roboteer
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Location: Sydney
The idea is you don't need to, that's just wasted weight.
I don't have high hopes for those little gear motors! The gears in them are pretty tiny... will probably have to do that reduction onto bigger drive shafts.
Also that winch motor seems pretty tiny? Relic from T2M? _________________ ( •_•)
quote:Originally posted by Jaemus:
BTW im pretty sure the idea with the Sportsman class was not to use wearplate grade or exotic alloys like Hardox
Says the man who is going waterjet/lasercut his whole robot
Your suppose to make the robot, not pick it up from Ikea!
quote:Originally posted by dyrodium:
The idea is you don't need to, that's just wasted weight. I don't have high hopes for those little gear motors! The gears in them are pretty tiny... will probably have to do that reduction onto bigger drive shafts. Also that winch motor seems pretty tiny? Relic from T2M?
They might turn out to be a flop, but it will be a pretty good test for them. I just need them to last an event or two till I get the brushless drives in which have a much, much better gearbox on them! The winch motor is a T2M/RageQuit/MBX spare, I would like to use it unfortunately the end stage plates I picked up from Miles' winches, don't fit and I don't have any from the old days, so I've got to order a new style 2000lb winch tomorrow The Hardox is going on so I won't have to fix a bashed up mild steel chassis at the end of the season and I can enter it straight into the spinner fest known as Nationals with less worries of it getting entirely raped . _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
Mon May 06, 2013 5:41 pm
Jaemus Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 01 Apr 2009
Posts: 2674
Location: NSW
yah but it'll be lasercut from cheese grade mild, and it will likely require extensive finessing as I've not been proven to design robots with easy assembly in mind did I ever mention how Hammerhead is actually about 10mm too narrow, causing the drives to butt into stuff? _________________ <Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
Mon May 06, 2013 6:05 pm
shakesc
Joined: 14 May 2012
Posts: 62
Location: UK
Looking very interesting, especially the brushless drive
You mentioned BotBitz GMP42 14:1 gearboxes.
Cant find these on the website
Can you post a link?
Tue May 07, 2013 5:15 am
Knightrous Site Admin
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 8511
Location: NSW
quote:Originally posted by Jaemus:
yah but it'll be lasercut from cheese grade mild, and it will likely require extensive finessing as I've not been proven to design robots with easy assembly in mind
Now that's a waste You could just get that whole design done at OxyCut out of Bis and have the same weight, same cost but a chassis 11ty times stronger. Just because it's a sportsman doesn't mean you should make it weaker
quote:Originally posted by shakesc:
Looking very interesting, especially the brushless drive
You mentioned BotBitz GMP42 14:1 gearboxes.
Cant find these on the website
Can you post a link?
They are not an official BotBitz product currently because I've yet to source a motor for them or setup a configuration that doesn't burn out. If the brushless conversion works out as planned, I might discuss with Steve on selling a conversion kit. This post - http://robowars.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75178#75178 - and the following 3 pages has some information on the setups. _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
Tue May 07, 2013 8:59 am
miles&Jules Experienced Roboteer
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Location: ipswich QLD
ah cool....yeah i guess hardox is a good idea especially as we cant do wedge shapes to deflect spinners (at other events).....go the pitch fork.....that will look genius and love the name to _________________ Miles Blow - Julie Pitts
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Tue May 07, 2013 10:26 am
Jaemus Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 01 Apr 2009
Posts: 2674
Location: NSW
Aaron: Sure, but I'd like to be able to drill holes in it and weld it with my shitty arc welder without it exploding apart _________________ <Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
Tue May 07, 2013 11:22 am
shakesc
Joined: 14 May 2012
Posts: 62
Location: UK
Gearboxes able to take 775 or equivalents definitely are interesting
The thought of a brushless drive appeals - I fancy trying something new
Will be watching with interest
Tue May 07, 2013 8:10 pm
Knightrous Site Admin
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 8511
Location: NSW
Well after some thinking, it was going to require a fair bit of effort to get the GMP36's to work without failure, so I might as well go brushless
My first rough "what is needed to make it work" proto at the bottom and the some what close to finished final.
Quick exploded view, very simple little adapter for this motor and gearbox.
I'm going to consider a slightly modified design that could be put into production for BotBitz, but we'll see how this setup goes first _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
Tue May 07, 2013 9:05 pm
Jaemus Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 01 Apr 2009
Posts: 2674
Location: NSW
looking good _________________ <Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
Tue May 07, 2013 10:02 pm
maddox
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
Posts: 786
Location: Belgium
Pity it's outrunners, now the German raptor class allows 3650 brushless inrunners....
Wed May 08, 2013 12:29 am
dyrodium Experienced Roboteer
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Posts: 6476
Location: Sydney
quote:Originally posted by maddox:
Pity it's outrunners, now the German raptor class allows 3650 brushless inrunners....
The raptor class has rulings on what motors you can use for drives? _________________ ( •_•)
quote:Originally posted by maddox:
Pity it's outrunners, now the German raptor class allows 3650 brushless inrunners....
Outrunners are just a much better motor for this kind of situation. The KV of the motor is in a sensible region where you don't need triple staged gearboxes to get a good output RPM and they have a much nicer start up when used with sensorless controllers.
Sounds like the Germans run some silly rules if they only allow 3650 inrunners.... Plenty of nice, cheap and range of variants of inrunner and outrunners in the 36mm category, selecting a single size for the ruleset is rofl-worthy. _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
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