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I realised that i seemed to have stored all the old chassis of my robots as they developed so took a picture of how accelerant and stanley have progressed.
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how did you hold the motors in place on accelerant?
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They are held in place(on all my robots) by motor mounts purchased from robotbits.co.uk.

http://robotbits.co.uk/motors-gearboxes ... od_11.html
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So I am redesigning Stanley with such things as built in motor mounts, more armour and wider wheels (yes even bigger). If the current Stanley equates to 8WD the new one is 12WD. Although with some properly cadded wheels rather than 2 and some superglue. I am also aiming to change stanleys shape to set it apart from other pushers so it at least looks more interesting and hopefully is more interesting to watch.

Accelerant is having to wait.

I don't suppose anyone has the tyres off Pololu 32mm wheels going spare by any chance? I just need the tyre not the hub. :D
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I am also aiming to change stanleys shape to set it apart from other pushers
Just starting on the same principle, I think the 4wd pusher has been a bit samey recently. Lets see who can be more original. :)
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bitternboy wrote:
I am also aiming to change stanleys shape to set it apart from other pushers
Just starting on the same principle, I think the 4wd pusher has been a bit samey recently. Lets see who can be more original. :)
Challenge accepted! You may win this one though. :P
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Here is the final version of Stanley Ready for print. It has a servo hold ontop so it can self right/maybe do a bit of lifting/flipping.

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And because 8WD wasn't enough I upped the anti to 12WD.
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The order has been placed (Along with some wheels for Formic and Flint).

This should address a lot of issues I found at the last event. Somehow the new chassis is lighter than the old one even though this has more things on it. So I used the spare weight to add a selfrighter, bigger wheels and more armour. It is also very wide about 120mm wide but short so it still fits in the cube, this is to make it harder to avoid the scoop and give more controlled turning and to help reduce the likelyhood of spinners catching the side *cough*Combatant*cough*. :lol:
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Sill having trouble getting staney going but that is because it has had a radical design change. I was sitting there with a version and just measured the weight... 130grams with 4WD a chassis and wheels etc. But also with a small 15g servo which was for self righting.

So long story short I will be changing the electronics for room for a nice 22.5g servo so I can run a 4WD flipper!
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After an excellent AWS 37 I have got a tonne of ideas to carry forwards. Here is the basic plan for the team:

Stanley - Re print the wheels to avoid wonkyness, change back to being long rather than wide to give we more space and shallower scoops. Get rid of the hinged one for a fixed one. No flipper just armour (More wheels? :P ). Change to 50:1 motors for more speed.

Accelerant - Armour, Armour, Armour. Generally making it stronger and able to take a beating better. Found a new type of servo to try which should make the flipper much more effective. Switch to 100:1 motors to slow it down a bit so I can control it better.

(As yet unamed spinner) - Do something with the spinner parts I have been collecting really... It will be vertical.
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I got the main body of the featherweight finished and the drive wired up. The pneumatic system would work but lacks the safety features needed so that won't be gassed up until that is sorted. It is just at the stage it is presentable for marking. I will get the feather back from marking in a few weeks to get it from marking ready to combat ready.

Some pictures of the feather:
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And a testing video:
http://youtu.be/kpLiZHlDETU
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