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Re: pic: pint sized chaos v2
This looks cool... any chance of seeing the CAD models, so I can draw some influence off of how your design works?
By the way, what made you choose a belt to run your blade instead of chain? (I ask because I know nothing about the field of battlebots) |
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I like it, battle bots allows you to do a lot of things that many of us wish we could do in FIRST but unfortunately, never get the chance to.
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How wide are your wheels? They are your first line of defence against the many plough type bots in competition, so wide wheels are always great (i'm sure greg knows that) Also do you have a brake in the transmission on that? Looks great, I love the slotted grille on the side that doubles as a way to lighten the machine. That would look really nice if you made it shinny for competition. |
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I am using belts strictly because of weight. I would love to use gears but unfortunately i really don't have the space and weight for them. The wheels are 1.25 wide colsons. There are no breaks on the transmissions, but I figure I won't need them because of the wedges and the fact I can move almost 10 mph. In the long run I would love to polish then anodize the whole thing (something I have been wanting to try for a while). but since i have a very limited amount of time to actually build this bot I am going to be lucky to get it done. |
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Re: pic: pint sized chaos v2
Another advantage of the belts is that if the blade is stopped through either being damaged or having a bot wedged in/stuck on it, the belt will slip, which should keep the motors from stalling and save a good bit of money over time.
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Re: pic: pint sized chaos v2
*sniff* It looks so pretty all assembled *sniff*
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Re: pic: pint sized chaos v2
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.
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. by the way, very clean and good looking cad. |
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-Greg (Not the one posting the CAD, if you were temporarily confused) |
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Exactly. one of the downfalls of having an exposed blade is that taking a side hit on it can do major damage. We felt that even with the possibility of not getting hits with the weapon we could do fine in the chance that their wedge was lower. After competing at one competition the biggest issue was that our lowest wedge (we called it the skirt) would get damaged and then it would be impossible to wedge anyway. Typically I build combat robots for one event, but I think I might re-build this one. If I do I will be removing one of the wedges making it one sided, and also putting a more powerful motor on the blade. |
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