Spinnerness...

Remote-Controlled Dave · Mon Nov 01, 2010 5:27 pm

Gee Pete, that robot sucks!

Well, someone had to do it!

earthwormjim · Post by **earthwormjim** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:42 pm

fascinating stuff!!
I would love to see someone make a new one.

josh · Post by **josh** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:48 pm

I've been thinking about developing a suction cup to counteract the flipper in the new pop so that as the flipper raised it drew air out of a cup with a seperate ram and sucked it to the floor before the flipper fully extended and threw the robot onto its back. although weight is an issue so will have to see how much weight i can save around the rest of the robot first.

alasdair · Post by **alasdair** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:52 pm

Dave26 wrote:Gee Pete, that robot sucks!

*Badumm tiss!* (drum cymbal)

Panzerbot · Post by **Panzerbot** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:15 pm

See this movi:
push
The silver robot is the Ant with the vakuum pump.
My team-mate has it build with two cheap china cars

So one

bitternboy · Post by **bitternboy** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:30 am

What could you expect if you got the suction pad wrong? I'm assuming a slightly concave circular foam pad with a hole in the middle and strengthened with alu wouldn't cut it.

bitternboy · Post by **bitternboy** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:53 pm

Like so:

http://i883.photobucket.com/albums/ac35 ... ionpad.jpg

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 2:09 pm

Panzerbot wrote:See this movi:
push
The silver robot is the Ant with the vakuum pump.

That's a beautiful arena.

Panzerbot · Post by **Panzerbot** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:04 pm

This is the ne arena from the GRA

It weights 70kg.

@bitternboy:
Sry my english is not very well

So i don?t understand waht ou mean

daliad100 · Post by **daliad100** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:18 pm

Surely all of the holes defeat the point of the vacuum?

http://durealeyes.com/hover.html If you read through the page you'll find about ceiling and wall robots.

For a combat robot you might want to try to make it more durable but the concept is there and it shows that it can be done using stuff that you may have lying around.