Team Shakey Build Diary
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Re: Team Shakey Build Diary
That was pretty obvious now I think about it.
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Re: Team Shakey Build Diary
Post event report from Ant Freeze:
Test Robot Please Ignore Finished with 8.5 hours before the event it did quite well. Spin up issues due to the afro esc's being too aggressive with voltage safety limits but it got quite stuck in anyway... A lot!
It did also somehow manage to beat a horizontal bar (The supposed counter to a vertical disc) by managing to hit the bar before the bar hit it (EXTREMELY unlikely thing to do), the bar did not fare well.
Wedge Wedge Wedge got beaten up by why wait, yellow wedge taking most the damage.
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared ejected it's own battery at one point. The rest of the time the afro esc just wouldn't let it spinup. Something that it never had an issue with in testing. Quite a disappointing performance as a robot built around a weapon but barely able to use it isn't great.
Horizontal Spinner Of Doom did okay. Didn't suffer badly from spinup issues (though still had some) and was able to deal a good amount of damage. The arena however was not a horizontal friendly one and it bounced out on most hits. I took the feet off as they weren't needed and just made control worse.
Space-Y managed a clean sweep of the pinball by relocating most the obstacles to outside the arena.
And a bonus picture of the generic vertical lineup:
Test Robot Please Ignore Finished with 8.5 hours before the event it did quite well. Spin up issues due to the afro esc's being too aggressive with voltage safety limits but it got quite stuck in anyway... A lot!
It did also somehow manage to beat a horizontal bar (The supposed counter to a vertical disc) by managing to hit the bar before the bar hit it (EXTREMELY unlikely thing to do), the bar did not fare well.
Wedge Wedge Wedge got beaten up by why wait, yellow wedge taking most the damage.
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared ejected it's own battery at one point. The rest of the time the afro esc just wouldn't let it spinup. Something that it never had an issue with in testing. Quite a disappointing performance as a robot built around a weapon but barely able to use it isn't great.
Horizontal Spinner Of Doom did okay. Didn't suffer badly from spinup issues (though still had some) and was able to deal a good amount of damage. The arena however was not a horizontal friendly one and it bounced out on most hits. I took the feet off as they weren't needed and just made control worse.
Space-Y managed a clean sweep of the pinball by relocating most the obstacles to outside the arena.
And a bonus picture of the generic vertical lineup:
Nuts And Bots - For all your components and ready built antweights!
Alex Shakespeare - Team Shakey / Nuts And Bots / Team Nuts:
AWS 44, 45, 49, 51 & 55 Winner - Far too many robots!
Alex Shakespeare - Team Shakey / Nuts And Bots / Team Nuts:
AWS 44, 45, 49, 51 & 55 Winner - Far too many robots!
Re: Team Shakey Build Diary
Hmmm... This ant is a little bit big.
Nuts And Bots - For all your components and ready built antweights!
Alex Shakespeare - Team Shakey / Nuts And Bots / Team Nuts:
AWS 44, 45, 49, 51 & 55 Winner - Far too many robots!
Alex Shakespeare - Team Shakey / Nuts And Bots / Team Nuts:
AWS 44, 45, 49, 51 & 55 Winner - Far too many robots!
Re: Team Shakey Build Diary
I liked Peters idea of the dehydrator for filament so grabbed one for myself. Should be able to mess about with Nylon and other stronger filaments much more easily.
Also my sisters partner bought a 550 size hexcopter for filming and after messing with it I decided I needed a drone for myself.
His drone:
Parts for a small 150 quad of my own:
And some tyres for the heavyweight! 40cm.
Also my sisters partner bought a 550 size hexcopter for filming and after messing with it I decided I needed a drone for myself.
His drone:
Parts for a small 150 quad of my own:
And some tyres for the heavyweight! 40cm.
Nuts And Bots - For all your components and ready built antweights!
Alex Shakespeare - Team Shakey / Nuts And Bots / Team Nuts:
AWS 44, 45, 49, 51 & 55 Winner - Far too many robots!
Alex Shakespeare - Team Shakey / Nuts And Bots / Team Nuts:
AWS 44, 45, 49, 51 & 55 Winner - Far too many robots!
Re: Team Shakey Build Diary
Not an ant, but I was bored and wanted one so made myself a small little 125 quadcopter:
It's a fun little thing but super fast and quite twitchy to fly (It has a high thrust to weight ratio). It weighs about 120g and I made the frame of it in house on my CNC router out of 3mm polycarbonate.
It's a fun little thing but super fast and quite twitchy to fly (It has a high thrust to weight ratio). It weighs about 120g and I made the frame of it in house on my CNC router out of 3mm polycarbonate.
Nuts And Bots - For all your components and ready built antweights!
Alex Shakespeare - Team Shakey / Nuts And Bots / Team Nuts:
AWS 44, 45, 49, 51 & 55 Winner - Far too many robots!
Alex Shakespeare - Team Shakey / Nuts And Bots / Team Nuts:
AWS 44, 45, 49, 51 & 55 Winner - Far too many robots!
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Re: Team Shakey Build Diary
Give it a wedge and bobs your uncle lol
Team Badger
Has a 3d printer now yay
-£4.82+VAT (intact)
-cool modulated printed thingy
-not yet built nasty mean spinnt thingy
I'm gonna build something huge and stupid, try and stop me
Has a 3d printer now yay
-£4.82+VAT (intact)
-cool modulated printed thingy
-not yet built nasty mean spinnt thingy
I'm gonna build something huge and stupid, try and stop me
Re: Team Shakey Build Diary
Still not an ant but I've done a lot of work on it, it's a very tough little thing now and despite quite a lot of crashing hasn't had to have too many repairs. Only 1 motor and ESC have needed replacing (alongside a few props but that's expected). It's gotten much easier to fly aswell as the quad has improved along with my own ability. It has also gained 30g leaving it at 150.5g now. Going to add some FPV equipment to it next.
Nuts And Bots - For all your components and ready built antweights!
Alex Shakespeare - Team Shakey / Nuts And Bots / Team Nuts:
AWS 44, 45, 49, 51 & 55 Winner - Far too many robots!
Alex Shakespeare - Team Shakey / Nuts And Bots / Team Nuts:
AWS 44, 45, 49, 51 & 55 Winner - Far too many robots!
Re: Team Shakey Build Diary
Nuts And Bots - For all your components and ready built antweights!
Alex Shakespeare - Team Shakey / Nuts And Bots / Team Nuts:
AWS 44, 45, 49, 51 & 55 Winner - Far too many robots!
Alex Shakespeare - Team Shakey / Nuts And Bots / Team Nuts:
AWS 44, 45, 49, 51 & 55 Winner - Far too many robots!
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Re: Team Shakey Build Diary
Looks great! Really neat.
Looks like you've not signed it up for tomorrow... will it make an appearance though...?
Looks like you've not signed it up for tomorrow... will it make an appearance though...?
Andy B - Team UserFriendly
Reading Cybernetics Graduate 1996
Trying not to take Antweights too seriously. I think I'm failing.
First AWS was 46.
Reading Cybernetics Graduate 1996
Trying not to take Antweights too seriously. I think I'm failing.
First AWS was 46.
Re: Team Shakey Build Diary
Looks great, glad to see it back.
I'm sure we'll see it tomorrow, shakey's only signed up 3 ants so far and I was wondering what the 4th would be.
I'm sure we'll see it tomorrow, shakey's only signed up 3 ants so far and I was wondering what the 4th would be.
Team Zero - AWS 58 Champion!
Zero - rambot - - Axiom - axebot - - Valkyrie - drum spinner
Blueprint - rambot - - Vampire - horizontal spinner - - Particle - ???
RBMK - quad spinner gyro walker - - Duality - dual spinner gyro walker
Zero - rambot - - Axiom - axebot - - Valkyrie - drum spinner
Blueprint - rambot - - Vampire - horizontal spinner - - Particle - ???
RBMK - quad spinner gyro walker - - Duality - dual spinner gyro walker