New Robots

Remote-Controlled Dave · Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:21 pm

I hope I get drawn up against Pete with Defensive Spooky-Cone. Cos the only way that's gunna win anything is if the other bot kills itself

razerdave · Post by **razerdave** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:09 pm

Pete:
sorry, I missed that

josh · Post by **josh** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:48 pm

meh everyone has beaten me tot the ideas i have been playing with for years lol andy n pete used bobth ideas lol will have to make sumin even cooler XD maybe both together XD

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peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:04 am

The flipper is so far somewhat disappointing. I don't seem to have got the geometry right. It can certainly flip a robot into to the air but not very high and it tends to come back down on top of my robot or just in front so not very good for flipping out of the arena. I may have to have a rethink on this either raise the pivot point of the arm or move it to the front so the back is raised not the front.

Remote-Controlled Dave · Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:53 am

Pete uses geometry whereas I just slap 'em together. Maybe that's why he beats me...most of the time. lol.

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:16 pm

Pete are those servos modified at all?

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:19 pm

I didn't say I used geometry just that it was wrong Dave.
Andrew they were speed modded for use in Dominant but I have put them back to standard. Due to the fact that I am running out of weight I might have to just run one servo and save 35 gms. I did a test where I removed the pin on one servo and the other was still able to reload the flipper with enough elastic bands to give over 800gms at the end of the arm. Any more bands and the whole mechanism starts to twist.

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:08 pm

I have been playing with a spring flipper, i have used the anticipation chassis to test it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmwdQBf0BmU

Currently this isn't RC but i am working on a release mechanism.

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:39 pm

That looks very impressive what was the weight of the object you were flipping.
Here is mine flipping Defiant still having to manually release the flipper but the loading and latching works.
http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... =flip1.flv
It only just goes out of frame at the top.

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:58 pm

Its quite light about the 30g mark. I was having trouble with more weight due to how steep the flipper arm is on anticipation the other robot slid off more than flipping. I hope to have this working for the next AWS although i may have to test out with a locking mech as you have there.