well SORRY is totally stripped down,1st time in 7 events so it was definantly due .... new everything ,wiring,low profile now 80mm lower ,new replacable armour ,all sides to be high strenghth ali plate ,thickness depends on weight , anti flipper devices installed ..basically stepping up a peg and meeting the new standard ....BRING IT ON
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well today i decided to do a radical change to the traditional sorry and go with a new concept ,still a SAWBOT but a new approach to lets say the exterior,armour ,type thing ....im sure someone else overseas has done it but i cant say ive seen it yet so i thought ill give it a go ......
i wont say any thing other than you will see the new leaner, meaner,SORRY at round 7 ......cheers chris
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well i have just finished the new servo switching for sorry and ive made it a lot easier to drive and a lot more control ....
looks a bit like the FLUX CAPACITOR off an old movie us old blokes might remember .......and after weigh in im at a nice 12.2kg and havent done any real weight reduction ..so im going into the next round legal and should be sub 12.000 kg
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wow sorry under 12kg, who would have thought lol

LMFAO hey ive seen back to the future a couple of times, id like to see those drill nicads power the flux capacitor
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The flux capacitor you can keep.. I want some "Mr.Fusion" batteries !!

1.21 GigaWatts of power that can be recharged with rubbish would be sort of handy, although I'd hate to try and find a motor controller that would handle it, how many amps are those new servo switches Chris ?

On a semi-related note, does everyone know about the "Electric Drive Train Simulator" software available from Enigma Industries ?
http://www.enigmaindustries.com/EDTSim.htm

It lets you design and model the drive train of your robot with a huge array of predefined motors, batteries, (and you can add your own) + wheel configurations, switches or PWM controllers, and then you can actually drive it around, see how fast it goes, how manueverable, how long your batteries will last, peak currents etc etc. Its quite a nice piece of 'ware. Definitely worth a look. Theres a limited free demo as well

Yeah, ive used the demo, its pretty good, but way too limited in parts. After mucking around with a hex editor for an hour or so trying to make the EDT Sim accept the spec files for the other parts from the full version, I gave up, and added it to my order from the robot marketplace. Placed that order about two weeks ago, so should get it soon
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well today i tested the new 2004 flux servo switching and it rocks perfect control, joystick precision, and does what its told lining up for the kill will be a lot easier .....
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well SORRY mods are done, and he is ready to go for round 4 a lot tougher im hoping, and weighed in at exactly 12.1 kg ...... ill put up some pics in the next day or 2
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the new SORRY photos are up .....go to links in the signature
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well SORRY is ready once again ,and the totoal refit job cost a grand total of $11 a couple of new switches and it ready to GO
no fancy ibc,no fancy motors ,no mega weapon ,no money
just a little thought ,work smart and not hard
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good quote their chris,
thats why i ave already got most prts for next robot here and the design pretty well finalised. Just need the various pulley's, belts etc etc and stee bar and some prototypuing and i am right to start.
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well SORRY is ready to go for the next round 3 weeks early and itsa lean mean 11.6 kg ..a whole new front end needed to be built thanks to the round 4 melee and im pleased with the results, i decided to loose the saw blade ,wasnt doing much anyway ..... and ive gone the old wedge design .....a bit of a return to the original WHITE TIP design and a trial for next seasons entrant
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dont diss the saw, it did the most dangerous damage to us of any bot
nicks thing did just about what we expected it to so there was no real problem there, you came closest to disabling (by damage) our wepon.

i keep getting visions of all things VERTICAL for next season
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