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dyrodium
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 24 Aug 2004
Posts: 6476
Location: Sydney
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High School Combat Robot Club
Ohai guys,
I've been approached by my old high school to manage a combat robot club next year. They've gone mad with clubs according to my sister (in yr 12) and apparently a few kids are keen. The fact they asked must mean there is some interest. Problem is they've let me down more than I can count, both when I was a student there *useless DT workshop forcing me to do a website for a major design project* and after *asking me to do a 5minute track for a video then stretching the track to 7minutes using video software >_>*
Thus, i'm really keen to do it but not getting my hopes too high yet. In any case, what are people thoughts on the kind of robots best suited to high school kids? Teenagers, and the club would be running all semester and there's 4 per year. Antweights are the cheapest option but stringing them out for that long would be a nightmare. I'm currently leaning towards beetleweights, offering a bit more flexibility and ease of construction for newbs with soldering irons. Either they'd have to make an arena, use ours if it gets built, or run no weapons?
If it DOES get off the ground, should be a real shot in the arm for the sport in NSW. _________________ ( •_•)
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Mon Nov 08, 2010 4:15 pm |
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dyrodium
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 24 Aug 2004
Posts: 6476
Location: Sydney
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As I mentioned elsewhere, a Thursday meeting later and the robot club is go for next year.
A standard school term has about 8 usable weeks, so we decided first term should do 3.30-5pm after school one day a week, and 2nd term move the club to a lunchtime (when the kids will have things to actually compete with). The class we decided on is a spinner free beetleweight class, mostly for safety but the robots will still be battle worthy in the normal beetleweight competition.
Plan at the moment is, using the plaspanel material above, the kids will design bots with my help (wedges, lifters etc), and translate them to 1:1 scale grid paper. I'll then get these and put them into rhino and using the CNC router cut them out. I can't really get them to make the bots from scratch as there isn't facilities available At least not straight away...
Just a quick question, anyone know where you can buy plastic screws? The kind you use to screw into thermoplastics without them developing shocking stresses. I know they exist somewhere... Cheers =3 _________________ ( •_•)
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Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:55 pm |
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