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Unread 04-06-2007, 06:41
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Re: pic: pint sized chaos v2

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its a cute little robot, but arent the super heavy weights where its at? no way you can put a hpa system in that and get it to throw 340 lbs 10 feet up.
The Super Heavies are super in most ways, meaning super expensive as well, thus being why there are not many built. There is also less of them competing than the Featherweight class this is being built for. For RoboGames '07 there are 29 Featherweights registered while there are only 7 Super Heavies (http://buildersdb.com/view_bots.asp?eventid=196).

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also im curious as to why a blade would be mounted on top of the robot?, to me it just seems harder, because you have to get the other guy on top before you do damage.
The wedge fed design is meant to feed the other robot into the blade, the blade will hit the other robot (hopefully) from underneath and will send it skyward, of course the disadvantage is if the opponent has a lower wedge then you can't get any hits with the blade which is why wedge fed blades are generally only fed one way and have the blade sticking out the other side so they can wedge feed the blade and use it normally.

-Greg (Not the one posting the CAD, if you were temporarily confused)
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