New Anticide

[Jonny]

that's looking awesome 8)

[shakesc]

Very nice. Don't see too many grabbers around

[Andrew_Hibberd]

After the poor preformance of the pneumatics at aws36 I have been testing my new set up:

The first test fire in the video empties the tanks, I will pulse it on for about 100ms so not to use all the gas in the final bot. Looking very promising so far with how much air it can output at once, in theory it should give flips over 1m high. We shall see when the ram is built.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mBG1UDU7II

[Andrew_Hibberd]

Its been a while since I posted about my team. This is my line up for AWS37, finally we will be seeing the return of Anticide! (Having said that it will properly fall apart very early on)

Anticide 150g
2 50:1 HP drive motors 20mm wheels
3 cell 130mah lipo
Custom pneumatic set up
17mm bore ram, 18mm stroke (5 times the flow 3 times the force of the aws28,29,30 bot)
baby-o speed controller
rx31 micro receiver
scorp mini for firing the pneumatics
2mm HDPE armour

Kwijebo 224g
2 10:1 HP motors
2 cell 240mah lipo
3/3d motor and pheonix 10 brushless controller
106g steel milling cutter
custom leg mechanism with no bouncing
sozbots dual speed board
ar6300 rx
0.6mm Titanium wedge

A Little Bit of Fail 140g
2 50:1 HP motors
20mm wheels
3 cell 130mah lipo
Servo lifter (HS82MG)
baby-o speed controller
ar6300 receiver
2mm HDPE armour

NOM NOM NOM.... 132g (new spinner to replace anticipation)
2 30:1 HP motors
19mm wheels
2 cell 130mah lipo
19g brushless motor and budget 6A speed controller
42g single tooth steel disc
baby-o speed controller
rx31 receiver
0.5mm Titanium armour, 6mm polycarbonate supports, 1+mm WS&F 3D printed chassis


More pics will be up when the robots are finished tomorrow

[haz]

that looks awesome!!
and deadly
so very jelly right now

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

Ah good, a spinner! I was thinking it would be more like the Anticide that had the "nomming" mechanism, but this is much cooler. I'm pretty annoyed that Fail is only 140g still though. Haha, it keeps winning, and you've still got 10g to play with!

[ajw]

Looks fantastic! Looking forward to seeing the finished bots and also seeing them all in action again.

[Andrew_Hibberd]

The grabbing mech wasn't very sucessful, if I have time later I may look at making it again. I can once again shout NOM NOM NOM when driving towards the other bot

I had two options for the anticide pneumatics. One was to use two solenoid valves, the other the mev-2 quick exhaust valve (like a low pressure feather), but the tank I made is far to heavy so I have gone for the lighter QEV design. The problem with this is that is not very reliable and has to leak air to lower the ram.

Anticide also had a spectacular failure during testing this evening, the ram and piston decided to fly out of the robot and into the ceiling at high speed. Looks like it should all be repairable, just need to get the electrics into the bot and it will be ready.

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

Andy, any chance you could, you know, not repair it? lol. Is it likely going to blow up again? Will be interesting!

[BeligerAnt]

... into the ceiling at high speed. Looks like it should all be repairable...

Just wondering whether this relates to the pneumatics or the ceiling...