Team Shakey Build Diary

[Rapidrory]

You need to get some team T- shirts!

[Shakey]

I finished my testing arena It's just big enough for 2 or 3 ants to have a rumble but the obstacles and layout should make fights more interesting. For a start the two ants don't start with a straight line to each other and there is minimal dropoff. The arena benefits flippers, grabbers and spinners really. It's a full polycarbonate front and lid too!





Start positions:



And Gimlis new steel gear to replace the ali one arrived. The ali gear is completely wrecked from the axe firing expecially after I finally ironed out all the bugs and got full power. I missed one of the targets during testing and it cracked a concrete slab.... Just need to get hold of a lathe and machine it right then Gimli should be quite a good bot to have fun with! I've just got to make sure that Gimli and Spur 1 are ready for their 2 events in september.




I've also got an adaptor for one of my brushless motors onto one of my discs on its way so you can look forward to another spinner entering the fray now It'll be a T shaped ground skimming undercutter for extra tyre seeking goodness!

[Rapidrory]

You gonna be bringing that arena to uni? Looks much more convenient than the uni's arena
I'm planning on putting together a very basic non spinner one just for practising.. Can do robot wars drinking game properly

Looking forward to seeing the upgraded Gimli in the fray; hopefully it's still no match for Richie's armour

[Shakey]

Yeah it'll be coming to uni with me

And you better watch Richies back, I even have reliable self righting now

[razerdave]

Oooh, robot drinking game and antweights, sounds like fun Just uni students or can anyone have a go ?

[malivoirec]

"Can do robot wars drinking game properly"

I needed more like minded people at Plymouth Uni.

Second what dave said.

[Shakey]

I'm afraid it's not any kind of formal event or even planned more than half an hour in advance

[razerdave]

If you can manage an hour in advance, I'd love to join in, I can get to reading uni in an hour

[Shakey]

My new robot scares me! It's just a testbot for my spinner system but it works well (kinda). Anything over half throttle though and all control is lost. The blade skims about 1 or 2 mm off the floor.

I intend on adding accelerants old big wheels and making it shorter to control it better.

[razerdave]

Looking at that pic, the disc is not mounted totally squarely, one slight knock and you are going to the walls on your own power. You didn't fancy having it mounted on top ?