Image Discuss: TechnoKat Teaser #3

[Andy Baker]

Originally posted by rbayer
Am I blind, or did you guys decide not to go with all 3 motors? I see the Chips and the Drills easily enough, but the FPs are nowhere to be seen!

Also, where did you guys get those nifty Delrin(?) Brecoflex pulleys from? They look really cool and I'd guess are much cheaper/lighter than the beasts from Brecoflex.

Rob, you have a keen eye. But... if you look closely at the gearbox nearest to the camera, there is a spot for the F-P motor. We figure that by adding the F-P motor, it will give us about 18.62553% more power. So, we've got that going for us, which is nice.

The Delrin pulleys were made from 10" long Delrin pulley stock. We made piles of white stringy stuff... which we stuffed inside of the "super-duper-really-cool-shinny thing".

Currently, we plan to use our F-P motors to spin the "super-duper-really-cool-shinny thing" at about 1,000 rpm, and everybody knows what that is going to do.

So... our big dilemma is how we are going to use these F-P motors. Do we go for more power or do we spin the "super-duper-really-cool-shinny thing"?

We are currently developing a motor cloning machine that replicates these kit motors while making them all legal to use on our robot. All we need to do is take a metal shaving from the housing of the motor, put it into the machine, pour in some Mt. Dew... and voila... another legal motor!

Andy B.