pic: pint sized chaos v2

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by Greg Peshek

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).



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)

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.