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Nick
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 11802
Location: Sydney, NSW
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Progress (backwards)
Its been a killer week at work; back to back 1am emergency call-outs will really mess your head up, but at least it added $1.2K to the bot fund all up, I would really have preferred the sleep...
The ant weapon bars and beetle chassis are still a week away for delivery, which isn't surprising since it took two weeks to get the CAD sorted out. The ant electronics have not been going well but it might get fixed over the next day or 2 and could be running with a lame weapon bar for Sunday's event.
Deb's trip to the US is a cheap way to get new bot parts water-jetted, so I am hard at work on the new featherweight wedge-bot. Even without weight optimisation, it is coming in at 1.7Kg under weight, so the 8mm Bisalloy wedge is locked in . Other features include 4 wheel drive and almost 440W of brushless motors, pluss 25mm thick aluminium sides to resist the nasty spinner bots. Its designed to be low maintenance and not uber-competitive, but should make a solid entrance at the Nats event.
The beetle-weight has had a setback; I totally screwed up the latest beater by gouging out a gigantic divot near a bearing, so that attempt is relegated to testing as it would likely split on the first big hit. I have already made many of the internal parts so once the chassis is welded up, it will get finished quickly.
Draw full o' neat:
While I was waiting for parts to be delivered, I neatened up the workshop a little:
$15 of woolies chopping blocks well spent! That's all the Tormach ER25 collets, the ER32 collets and the 5C collets neatly stored, with room for the MT3 collets and various accessories in the future. I also bought some cheapo foam mats from Costco to line the rest of the draws in the tooling cabinet.
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