New Robots- Continued

[joey_picus]

of the horse?

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

What?

[earthwormjim]

New robot... Raoul



Raoul is a drum spinner.
It started out as this...



But I soon figured out it was going to weigh something silly,like 300g at least.
So I tried to lighten it and used some hdpe...



And I had to lighten the steel bars as much as possible...


But the final design is this...






Here is a link to some vids...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWWRFYiIs3U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdqBSKSfQ1s&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsRrlmsfCTs

The plan was to have 2 motors,but it is not practicle at the mo.
So it weighs a lowly 135g's at the mo!!
Also I made it as small as possible to keep the weight down.
It is 90mm long,80mm wide,and 35mm high.
I think it could squeeze into a fleaweight box!!!
I may put 15g's of weight in the drum,or get a bigger battery. The 11.1v 240mah 20C battery I have lasts barely a minute and a half!!!

Grrr Arrgghhh!

[Impact]

Holy sausage, thats a pretty awesome robot.
Very good work !!!

[joey_picus]

...bloody...hell...that is possibly the single best looking and best designed robot I've ever seen in antweights XD It's absolutely fantastic, I genuinely look forward to seeing it in person at the AWS if you can make it, of if not at whichever event it attends

[philippos]

i can only repeat the other two post. Simply. Amazing.

[josh]

Looks brilliant! Is that aluminium the drum body is made from? will it not warp with all the holes in it?

[earthwormjim]

Looks brilliant! Is that aluminium the drum body is made from? will it not warp with all the holes in it?

Probably!!
To be honest,I am not sure.It is a high grade,and 2mm thick,from my kit-car build!
I may be able to make it solid,now I have an extra 15g to play with.
I will do lots of testing to find out!

Thanks for the kind words,chaps.
Joey,I would love to come to the AWS,but I dont think I will be able to.
The rest of my family aren't quite as enthusiastic as me about antweights. I am working on getting my daughter involved,that way,if she wants to go,then I will just have to take her!!
Jim.

[Craig_Anto3]

Theme song it? Holier than thau

[bitternboy]

Can it self right? If it can get stranded on its back then I'd use those extra grams on a strimech. But yeah, I think it looks awesome .