New Anticide
Moderators: BeligerAnt, petec, administrator
Re: New Anticide
I believe craig is working on a pneumatic axe at the moment..
Rory Mangles - Team Nuts
Robots: Nuts 2 and many more...
NanoTwo Motor Controllers: https://nutsandbots.co.uk/product/nanotwodualesc
Robots: Nuts 2 and many more...
NanoTwo Motor Controllers: https://nutsandbots.co.uk/product/nanotwodualesc
-
- Posts: 3716
- Joined: Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:30 pm
- Location: Antrim, Northern Ireland
- Contact:
Re: New Anticide
Craig is always working on everything. His brushless axe was hilarious...
Die Gracefully Robotics
Winner - AWS 39
Winner - AWS 39
- joey_picus
- Posts: 1137
- Joined: Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:51 pm
- Location: Lancaster, Lancashire
- Contact:
Re: New Anticide
I have got a pneumatic crusher coming hopefully for the last AWS of the year (it's an idea I've had for at least the last five years, but now I actually have some decent rams and access to (a friend with) the necessary machine tools to get it done...). I just need to make sure I don't drive it onto that thing XD
Joey McConnell-Farber - Team Picus Telerobotics - http://picus.org.uk/ - @joey_picus
"These dreams go on when I close my eyes...every second of the night, I live another life"
"These dreams go on when I close my eyes...every second of the night, I live another life"
Re: New Anticide
is a pneumatic robot much more difficult and expensive to build than a normal one?
Daniel Jackson.
Team Hectic.
Many antweights
Super antweights: territorial.
Fleaweights: fleadom fighter, gaztons.
Featherweights: hectic (under construction)
Team Hectic.
Many antweights
Super antweights: territorial.
Fleaweights: fleadom fighter, gaztons.
Featherweights: hectic (under construction)
Re: New Anticide
While it's no more expensive, it's definitely more difficult and there is also an element of danger to be considered. As you saw in my thread when I was building Flux, pneumatic components can fail with explosive results. If it's not something you have any experience with, definitely seek help from people that do before pressurising anything.
Scott Fyfe-Jamieson, Captain of Epic Robotics. Champion of AWS38/41/42.
http://www.epicrobotics.co.uk
http://www.epicrobotics.co.uk
Re: New Anticide
i'll just stick to building boxes with wheels
Daniel Jackson.
Team Hectic.
Many antweights
Super antweights: territorial.
Fleaweights: fleadom fighter, gaztons.
Featherweights: hectic (under construction)
Team Hectic.
Many antweights
Super antweights: territorial.
Fleaweights: fleadom fighter, gaztons.
Featherweights: hectic (under construction)
Re: New Anticide
I don't want to discourage you from doing something new, exciting, and educational, just making sure you're aware of the risks involved .
Scott Fyfe-Jamieson, Captain of Epic Robotics. Champion of AWS38/41/42.
http://www.epicrobotics.co.uk
http://www.epicrobotics.co.uk
- joey_picus
- Posts: 1137
- Joined: Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:51 pm
- Location: Lancaster, Lancashire
- Contact:
Re: New Anticide
Pneumatics are - aside from bloody dangerous, at least with spinners you can unplug the battery and be reasonably certain it's not going to spin up! - quite a complex way of doing things, particularly in antweights where available components tend to be quite bulky and heavy (and usually designed for planes that have slightly less of a strict weight limit!). You generally need to budget a lot more of the robot's weight for rams, valves, tanks, linkages, often a servo to actuate said valve, etc. than you would for a simple servo, and the results may not be that much better - servos don't lose power as the battle goes on, and very rarely cause your robot to flip itself over, and hardly ever explode during testing...
Essentially, it's a lot of hassle for what isn't always going to be a better result. But you don't do it because it's easy, you do it because it's hard, à la getting people on the moon
Essentially, it's a lot of hassle for what isn't always going to be a better result. But you don't do it because it's easy, you do it because it's hard, à la getting people on the moon
Joey McConnell-Farber - Team Picus Telerobotics - http://picus.org.uk/ - @joey_picus
"These dreams go on when I close my eyes...every second of the night, I live another life"
"These dreams go on when I close my eyes...every second of the night, I live another life"
-
- Posts: 1134
- Joined: Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:00 am
- Location: London
- Contact:
Re: New Anticide
I just received a pneumatic fill.valve from hobbyking. It has a large hex nut on the in end, has anyone got one and tried turning this round to save weight?
TEAM GEEK!