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Knightrous
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Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 8511
Location: NSW
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Originally posted by Knightrous:
Time to dust this thread off and dust the robot off.
Dragging Schmackhed back out for the QLD Non-spinner event. Going to strip all the paint off it (or burn it!) and going to coat the robot in beer and salt for an epic rust job for that junk yard shit heap styling. There are two areas I want to improve on this robot for the season.
Drive: I'm looking at either going to use some simple BotBitz GMP36 drives for an average, reliable drive or I'll look at finishing the BotBitz GMP42 Brushless drives for an fast, over powered but potentially unreliable drive
Weapon: Well it needs a weapon, the wedge is pretty epic in terms of effectiveness, so I'm looking at a simple clamper or lifter add on for the robot (maybe both if made modular).
I know I said this like 5 years ago when I first built Schmackhed, but hopefully I can get it reliable as a simple, plug in and drive robot so I can tinker on another design
13 months later, and it's back............ Fresh rebuild, fresh name.
KNIGHTROUS WEDGE
Dug this old thing out, zip tied in a 5S 4000mAh lipol, a pair of BotBitz 85A ESC's and bolted a pair of Dewalts onto it (stolen straight out of Annoying Box Rush). All done in a hastily 4hrs!
Only after 8 years, has the drive train finally become reliable and it's actually won something. Only real issue is, speed hasn't picked up despite having the dewalts in it, but it's purely a case of no traction. So while the weight distrobution makes the wedge uber effective, it just doesn't have enough weight over the wheels to make it super fast.
It's ~1kg underweight, so with a smaller battery, a couple of tweaks, I might actually be able to get the weight down enough to build that lifter/clamper. _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
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