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- Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:14 am
- Forum: Questions (and answers)
- Topic: Lipo-Battery failures?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2510
I;ve seen some lipo batteries fail a while after use. One took a few hours. If the battery was stressed too much, it can cause some minor internal damage, which will eventually give way to lipo failure. Usually when they puff, they don't blow up. In fact, 90% of lipo failures I've seen have been jus...
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:07 am
- Forum: Resource Websites
- Topic: +++TITANIUM+++
- Replies: 33
- Views: 53508
I've done some serious Ti bending with heat. Guidelines for bending with heat: - Create the bend wit ha large radius - Heat the Ti until it gets only faintly red. Very bright red or orange is bad and will create a weak spot. - Let it air cool. Quenching it makes it hard and brittle. With a bench vis...
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:51 am
- Forum: Questions (and answers)
- Topic: Base Plate
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7397
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:41 am
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: New Robots
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 1041227
A buddy of mine has been using these in his ant. They work pretty darn well. The only rub is that you need a separate BEC or receiver power from a weapon controller.
http://www.fingertechrobotics.com/prodd ... ft-tinyESC
http://www.fingertechrobotics.com/prodd ... ft-tinyESC
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:36 am
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: Atom Bomb
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10818
- Mon Jun 07, 2010 2:13 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: Atom Bomb
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10818
- Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:18 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How I started building Robots
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17287
Oh wow, somebody else made a toaster bot! The first video at the 2:00 mark, "The Savage Toaster".
Mine was "The Brave Little Toaster"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miT7hYPLaVs
Mine was "The Brave Little Toaster"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miT7hYPLaVs
- Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:08 am
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: Atom Bomb
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10818
That's a nice drum bot there. Is it an ant? It looks big and heavy (comparatively). Seems like you had it working pretty well. What design problems did you run into? And yeah, with that much pushout area, if you send yourself flying out you're done for. The only way you would win is if you threw you...
- Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:30 am
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: Atom Bomb
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10818
Mine is the only 150g drum bot I know of actually. It's a decent design, but takes some serious planning and balancing of weight so not to go over. As for the arena, yeah, the 150g bots compete in the same arena as the 1lb bots. As for the arena, there are no rules other than it has to be safe. The ...
- Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:24 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: Atom Bomb
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10818
Atom Bomb
I decided I may as well just make a thread for Atom Bomb. It's been around a few years and has changed drastically over that time. Peterwaller was curious if here in the US we use any similar parts to you guys, so I figured I'd start off wit ha parts list. My current version is as seen here, the lit...