New Robots- Continued

[Team Orr]

Looks really good! what is that disk made out of?
also from your other videos i see you are into broken sword! class game, the first version of the shadow of the tempters has to be one of my favorite games of all time, theres some videos of me playing it on my youtube channel (teamorr96)

[Andrew_Hibberd]

Nice to see Randar back, looking really scary.

[teamocean]

Looks really good!

If all goes to plan the disc should be cut this week- been a bit busy selling the featherweights first but they are all done now

[the16henry16]

got any more in there will

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

Brilliant work as always Rhys. Can't wait to fight it

[Rhys]

Oh man, I did something so stupid it should be in the roboteer fail thread. When putting it together to try and save weight and space, I soldered all the wires to the rx instead of using plugs. May not seem much to many of you, but was quite an achievement to me. To stop my dodgy soldering coming loose, I out glue over the wires.... Anyway, tonight I realised that my failsafe on the spinner is set to 100% throttle!

The only way to sort this was by disassembling a large portion of the robot. Cue the unglueing rx from robot, pulling bits of glue from the rx, disconnecting as many wires as I needed, binding by jamming some wires into the appropriate holes, and all told I've wasted about an hour. This has been a valuable lesson!

Anyway, cheers for the kind comments guys. Hopefully this will be the first spinner that scares the opponent more than it scares me!!

Jack, it's a blade I bought from B&Q, 85mm diameter, weight 32g. It's fitted to the motor by a custom hub from shapeways that bolts onto a prop adapter. I've been trying for years to get this disc to fit onto a motor properly, and this is about the best I've done it, but it's still far from perfect, hence the new disc. And yeah, Broken Sword is awesome! I completed Shadow of the Templars recently, but have nearly forgotten all the puzzles from BS2, so may have to play that through again soon!

And Will, cheers for doing this for me.

[Rhys]

I've had a bit more of a play with it tonight, been hitting more than coke cans! This was hitting one of my botlets from Warhorses. It's about 73g without the wheels, the disc was on about 30% throttle. Depending on how brave I'm feeling without a fully enclosed arena, I may test it on a 150g ant later this week at a higher throttle.

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

The white thing you can see on the left of Randar is an on board camera. The footage wasn't too good as it was mounted too far forward.

[Glen]

Quick test of mine, nearly done! i call him the exorcist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9xy7Zn9xmo

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

Rhys, you tested your spinner...on your own robot? lol. Well, that's brave.

Glen, there's some crazy shadow-play going on in that vid! lol. Looked like the spinner was bending at one point. Looks like it could be nasty (even if it is oversized)

[knightrous]

Name: Scarlet 2.0

Weight: 141g
Chassis/Armour: 1.6mm PCB base, 3mm HDPE chassis & 1mm carbon fibre top
Weapon: 110mm 28g Titanium disc, spun by a Turnigy 2204 brushless motor on 11.1v
Drive: Botbitz 50:1 LP gearmotors on 3S, driving 32mm foam wheels
Battery: Turnigy NanoTech 160mah 3S pack
Electronics: Modified AR6110B Receiver connected to a Pololu B328 ESC for drives and a Turnigy Plush10 BESC for the weapon.
Notes: Invertible.

Videos:
Scarlet VS Shiny - http://www.youtube.com/v/4uGuy5m0Glo
Scarlet VS Arisama - http://www.youtube.com/v/BkpVfZ620d8