New Robots

bitternboy · Post by **bitternboy** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:11 pm

A great little piece of engineering, looks like great fun.

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 2:36 pm

I know this was a bit further back in the thread but actually the thin Titanium on the front of the new Defiant stood up to combat fairly well.
I have just been watching the video of it against Void one of the lower scoopes around and I think on the times we came together head to head I got under him as much as he did me.
Unfortunatley Scott was a bit sneeky and kept attacking from the side or rear and won

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One advantage of the tracks is the ability to back over other robots when being pushed from behind which saved me two or three times at AWS32.

Shakey · Post by **Shakey** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:25 pm

I finally got my first bot (nearly) finished. It only needs some minor modifications to the flipper. Note that i forgot to put the battery and motor controller back in the robot for the photo. If any of you are wondering about the odd armour it was because there was a mix up at the shop iIbuy my metal and they labelled the wrong thing which we bought and was fitted before realising what happened.

Haywire
Length: 10cm
Width: 10cm
Height: 4.5cm
Weight: 147g
Armour: 1mm Aluminium on front, 0.5mm steel for sides, 0.5mm aluminium for rear and bottom, Unknown clear plastic for top!
Drive: 2x 56:1 motors
Speedo: Sabertooth 2x5 RC
Battery: 350mAh 2 cell LiPo
Weapon: Flipper powered by HPX servo

http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/vv21 ... C10351.jpg

bitternboy · Post by **bitternboy** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:16 pm

I've knocked together another antweight from the collective parts of Anti-deppressant and redshift to boost the numbers of the team a bit.
It runs off 3 Park Flyer HPXF servos (2 drive, 1 flipper), a 7.2v lipo and uses home made wheels that are literally made from Foamboard, postcards and rubber gloves; and they're not half bad surprisingly.

knightrous · Post by **knightrous** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:51 am

Name: Kruger (AKA Freddie Kruger....)

Weight: ~145g
Length: 100mm
Width: 115mm
Height: 55mm
Drive: 2x Pololu 100:1 gearmotors with Pololu 32mm wheels.
Controller: HobbyCity T4A RX with B-328 controller.
Battery: 11.1v 3S 360mAh 20C Rhino LiPol
Weapon: 18g stainless steel spinning bar @ ~15000rpm. Powered by a Tunigy 2204 14T motor @ 11.1v, Turnigy Plush10A speed controller.
Armour: 1 & 3mm polycarb
Youtube Video

alasdair · Post by **alasdair** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:21 am

Wow! Thats so cool. Is there any armour on the back?

knightrous · Post by **knightrous** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:46 am

alasdair wrote:Wow! Thats so cool. Is there any armour on the back?

When it's completed there will be

Most likely some more coke bottle or a small bit of carbon fibre I have laying around. I'm just happy it self rights with drive and weapon

Impact · Post by **Impact** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:51 pm

Hey, Guys,

I?m Victor, 15 Years old from Berlin and Member of the GRA. My friend and me fromed the Team "Rock?n Robot".

This is my active Antweight:

Red Bull 2:

Weight: 148 gr
Lenght: 9,8 cm
Width: 11,2 cm
Height: 3,6 cm
Weapon: nothing/Pusher
Armour: Polysterol 1,5 mm
Drive: Gearmotors 1:30

http://img52.imageshack.us/g/p1040997.jpg/

(The old one was destroyed by an Spinner)

And i just build another Antweight:

http://img27.imageshack.us/g/p1050104c.jpg/

(under Construction)

Weight: ? gr
Lenght: 10,9 cm
Width: 10,5 cm
Height: 3,0 cm
Weapon: Lifter
Armour: Polysterol 1,5 mm and 1 mm
Drive: Gearmotors 1:60

If there will be an AWS in the Nederlands in future, i hope to come and meet you all.

Nice Greetings

joey_picus · Post by **joey_picus** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:00 am

Hi Victor,

I have to say I'm really impressed with your ants, they look very well built and tidy

what's the front wedge made out of on Red Bull?

Just as a friendly suggestion as well (I'm only going on the pictures so I don't know if there's a reason for this

) if you moved the back lifter pivot a bit further forwards on the robot's base with the second one - or even got rid of it entirely and attached the back of the arm to the servo - you might get more lift out of the arm as at the moment it looks virtually square with the body - although having said that I haven't built any four bar flippers myself so you'll possibly know better than I do.

(p.s: don't worry about your English much, so far it's better than a few actually English people I've known, heh)

haz · Post by **haz** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:25 am

hallo victor, wow your robots are awsome where did you get 60:1 gearmototrs from