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Originally Posted by sparksandtabs
What was your main weapon
Also since just about all of your team is involved with FIRST how did you design it differently. Did you need extra support, material, shape, thickness(tubing wall), or anything else?
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Our Main Weapons were 3 Flippers, one on each side, hence Tetracide, running off of 1700psi of nitrogen through 2" bore cylinders. The original idea was to have a Tetrapyramid righ to the floor so people can't push us around but changes needed to be made in order to make it smaller. A picture can be found on our team website robot.midnightinvention.com
As far a what we could do differently - I guess the key words are "no suck thing as Overkill!" We ended up welding 14g steel and using nitrogen instead of a cheesy compressor. The motors we used were powered by 24-36VDC and runs at 1.25 HP. This would definitely wreck a FIRST bot but it's a different forum. We were definitely on the weaker side compared to some of the veteran Battlebot teams.
If we decide to do it again, we have some upgrade ideas already to improve.
Ellery
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