New Robots

daliad100 · Post by **daliad100** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:11 pm

How do you mount your motors if they're that far inside the wheels?

Looks awesome BTW.

josh · Post by **josh** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:15 pm

I turn a tube from nylon bar that bolts to the bulkhead and runs inside the wheel keeping the wheel straight and holing the motor up to the gearbox.

joey_picus · Post by **joey_picus** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:15 pm

That is looking very good so far

shame about the printed chassis but it looks just as good without really.

alasdair · Post by **alasdair** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:41 pm

Awesome! do the 2 servos both power the flipper?

josh · Post by **josh** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:53 pm

yeah although this is only for brighton as I have a pneumatic set up to build up eventually.

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:58 pm

Finally got round to fitting some teeth to the new Mutant drum.
Might need to sharpen them and then fit the controller and it should be ready for Brighton.
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... MG1135.jpg

D0ntstare · Post by **D0ntstare** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:24 pm

Ah NUTS! this one looks particularly scary to try and defeat

MR Waller and His spinners haha, Josh, I am taking that when you say the 3d one came as a solid block you mean it was ACtually machined in that form? how do they do that?is it some kind of mulitdirectional lazer?

josh · Post by **josh** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:28 pm

yes it was supposed to print out as several parts so that all the flipper mech rotated in the correct places but it printed the seperate material together as one piece because of accuracy issues... 3D printing is basically done by building up tiny layers of about 0.1mm thick to create a 3D part. I think for nylon they laser sinter each layer from a powder although i may be wrong.

D0ntstare · Post by **D0ntstare** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:39 pm

Ah I see, its cool how its made but unfortunately not so great it was made in a block.. So I am taking a company did this for you and not yourself?

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:26 pm

Mutant is finally finished ready for AWS 33.
It now has the two front prongs to hopfully guide the opposition up into the mincer.

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... MG1141.jpg
Here it is with the rest of the teams spinners all ready to go.

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... MG1140.jpg