Personally I'd be thinking of some triangulation in that sexeh curved bit coming out the front, or perhaps filling it with something to stiffen it up, but then gut feelings seem to not work too well at this scale as to whats needed or not.
A 1mm thick carbon fiber base that will be bolted to the chassis to stiffen it up.
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I would use thicker CF and do away with the struts - much easier to manufactur and probably about the same weight
Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:33 am
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I currently run that setup with a PCB chassis, however it offers no protection for the motor, wiring or ESC. I've lost a couple of fights due to this and want to start eliminating the problem. I also want to mount the weapon ESC in the area between the spars to make the main body less cluttered (and in the future, allow me to reduce the body size) and the spars will stop the disc from hitting the weapon ESC.
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Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:45 am
Jaemus Experienced Roboteer
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its not like Jake is making any robot building posts _________________ <Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:21 pm
Valen Experienced Roboteer
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@Jaemus BURN!
fair call ;-P
Did you want us to perhaps mill a pocket out to put your stuff in?
IE fill in the "triangle" at the front say 1mm thick with a space between it and the carbon? _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:43 am
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Just mill it as per the drawing, I'll ad-lib the rest of the robot as per usual if anything needs changed _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:29 pm
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hehe couldnt resist _________________ <Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
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