We Have about six or seven betwen Aaron(TDT ) and my boys and my self and a few half finished ones and a couple on the drawing bords most of ours are built from junk we scrounge Also check out the build threads . most people have their robot s listed their with the robots statistics at the start of their build thread .one of these days i am going to round up all the statrs and put them in one thread so people like your self can just lok through a list of them all .
Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:08 pm
Archer
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 106
Location: Canberra
where do you scrounge from if you can find decent parts for a bot.
Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:13 pm
Totaly_Recycled Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
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Usualy the local dump here some cities have trash and treasure type stores at their local dumps these are a great source of cheap wheapons motors and all sorts of stuff. once you get the bug you will look at all sorts of thisng that you would normaly just walk past and see iff its something you can use on a robot ..
any strong metals ect can be used for armour or chasis ect
old cars are a good source of wheapons motors and relays and wireing
Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:18 pm
Totaly_Recycled Experienced Roboteer
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I usualy scrounge out small local dump looking for bits it took me nearly 6 weeks to find the steel i needed for Sproings armour i just had to wait until some one threw out some inner spring mattreses
3 x Feathers have had up to five but we generally have 3 finished or in progress _________________ Steven Martin
Twisted Constructions
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Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:22 pm
timmeh Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 20 Jul 2004
Posts: 2523
Location: Victoria
So far i have two feathers and another in the building.
I have a beetleweight i have started and starting a lightweight.
And i have about 10 zilion ideas id like to build _________________ Tim Team Reaper.
Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:27 pm
Archer
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 106
Location: Canberra
ok i should be more specific are there any middle wieghts?
cos the idea i have prob wouldnt be small anuff to me a light wieght
Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:21 am
Totaly_Recycled Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
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At the moment we dont have any arena's that will contain Middle or Heavy weights. Some arena owners are allowing light Weights 25 --28. something kgs with non spinner wheapons to run iff they think the arena wil contain them safely .
George in Vic and Team rotwang (Garry ) in vic have lightweight the Keerroos in Qld have a light weight and there are a couple more but i cant rember who thy are.
Iff you are starting out on your first robot even though its a lame idea the best thing is to start with something smaller that doesnt cost to much .once you go over feather or light weight then you realy need heavy duty motors ect that arent easily scrounged or cheap to buy .
My best advise is to start in the feather or light weight class and build a rammer or wedge or thwack bot type Then leave room in your desighn to add an active wheapon at a later date . Once you get more confident with building control systems . The motor controlers are the hardest part or most expensive part (if you buy them ready made ) to build .
I have built several cheaper types that i and others can advise you on building .The cheapest type is just a servo switching micro switches .A lot of the younger NSW blokes had reasonably good succes with these but they just switch the motors full on and off, foward and reverse, with no in betweens .
Another type i desighned and shared with other s who have since built their own versions of these are the drill trigger controlers useing a servo to push a drill trigger in and out and turn micro switches on and off for foward and revese a few Of the NSW blokes are still useing these succesfully and swear they wont buy an electonic controler .
.I have also used the small circute boards out of servos to electricaly turn..... Fetts.. on and off, which are ( high power transistor type thingy's ) with the PWM ( pulsed width modulation they generate )--in easier terms it pulses power on and off several times a second to trick the motors they are geting a lower voltage .
These controlers work fairly well also, but are a lot harder to understand and build but can be fairy cheap sucesfull. I have run a set in a couple of our robots . Or you can just save up and Buy ready made ones like Bretts (spockie Tech's) IBC , or over seas brand controlers are available like vantecs and a whole heap of others.
We really only run Featherweights atm if you want a list of all bots past and present have a look at the rankings. I think there's a link on the main robowars page.
And trust me you will be surprised what you can do with a featherweight the only thing that might be too hard to do on that small a scale would be hydraulics but i'd say someones prolly done that already to prove me wrong. _________________ Steven Martin
Twisted Constructions
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Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:26 am
Archer
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 106
Location: Canberra
i will put this here to save making another thread but what about water as a weapon say a small water pistol like thing?.
just wondering cos that would be a small bot
Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:23 pm
timmeh Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 20 Jul 2004
Posts: 2523
Location: Victoria
The rules say no liqiud weapons.
Besides water will only wreck the electronics in the long run not during a fight not enoughf to win it. _________________ Tim Team Reaper.
Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:25 pm
Archer
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 106
Location: Canberra
ok bugger next idea then
Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:27 pm
Big AL Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 16 Oct 2004
Posts: 436
Location: roleystone perth. WA
why not make a flame thrower?.
the thing is they aint that affective unless you can get armor off and into the soft electronics. _________________ For West ausies interested in robotics email me at: theoneshrug@hotmail.com
OR
dragoonarie@gmail.com
best quote ever:: "Those Gas-Turbine style warehouse heaters arent illegal, and neither is remote controlling one as far as I know."
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