Topic: Combat robots!
started by: Lordbrandon
Put pictures with descriptions.
this'll be sweet
2.blue is a rod for a pnumatic piston that is jabbed into the opposing bot after the manet has gripped it
3.green is the piston
4.purple are metal wedges connected to leather that lets them slightly scrape on the ground
5.cyan are fendish spikes to strike phear into the heart of other bots
[This message has been edited by Lordbrandon (edited June 06, 2000).]
2.Purple, these are the spears that thrust at high speeds into the attacker, by ajusting the crankshaft you can change which spears are out and wich are in
3.green are the movement controls
4.red wheeles
what a racket this thing will make
[This message has been edited by Lordbrandon (edited June 06, 2000).]
Problem with spikes in the bigger classes is the fact that the armor gets thicker and moves from lexan to metal. The other problem is you need to pin your victim down or all the spike will do is push them away.(1st law of motion)
Saws tend to skip and jump off of armor if they bite at all. abrasive disks will break on impact(impact speeds can total 100+ MPH)
Magnets or any other type of grapling or entangelment device is not allowed by the rules.
What to do? You make the device that pins you victim down a weapon that does crushing damage.
as you can see the top arm can smack down on the top of a victim and hold them in place. this is now run by Co2 but may end up being hydrolic. When this is doing its job the little spike tears in from the bottom. I call it the CHB (Come Here Bitch)(old joke from my Army days)
The drive system is 2 12V wheelchair motors. The frame is tube Al. and the shell is 1/2" AL. plate. Total weight works out to be around 200 lbs.
Im also building a 24 lb walking robot(stompbot) for events in NJ, NY, and PA this year.
if you want to know more just ask or visit the other sites like < http://www.battlebots.com/ >
they have lots of links to other places.
One last thing. for those of you that have gone to my website forgive the apperence. I know it sucks and im working to fix it.
Im also building a
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Battle Bots (the us version) is pure head to head combat. There are arena hazards but they are not mobile. It's you and the other guy and that's it.
Like everything else that is good in the world, it was ripped from the US.
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[This message has been edited by Wolfguard (edited June 07, 2000).]
some little scorpion/motorcycle/flamethrowing thingy, a spider with blades for legs, and some big guy with a chainsaw arm called the judge.
if i were to build battle robots ;-) that's what i'd do...
just a thought!
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if you made something that was virtualy indesructable with say quarter inch steel with good welds and structure then maby a cutting torch.
what is the ground of the arina made of?
whold tey be mad if you drove a piston through it?
and are crushing claws ok or is that part of snaring?
Drills dont realy work because its to hard to keep someone still long enough to let the drill bite. it tends to just skip over the surface and not dig in.
Spinning chains/flails tend to cause more damage to the user then to the victim.
Any thing that can damage the battle box(acids and such) are a no no (cant advance to the next round if you distroyed the place you fight)
you can use crushing weapons that "pin" down your victim as long as you are doing damage the entire time you have the bastard in your grip. the cool thing about the BattleBots battle box is it has these saw blades in the floor you can keep running your victim into.
In the heavy and super heavy classes the armor can be real thick. SLAM is made out of all steel and is more than a half inch in places. still, if you put tones of pressure on anything it will give out sooner or later.
im working on a crushing/cutting claw now. the people that make the "Jaws of Life" are local to me and i may just have to pay them a visit. Again you can grab your victim, but you have to be doing damage.
cr0bar: I would proudly fly the Detnet colors. Its going to be black anyway because that is what my logo looks best on I can put the detnet logos on both sides. Ill be making the big events in 2001. right now i just dont have the money to get all the parts at once. Most of them are going to be custom made.(you know how hard it is to get a 15" 3"dia air ram with a tool steel ram?)
Here is the one im working on right now. Its a 24 lb StompBot(it walks) and is just a bully. (ment to shove people around) If i do have enough weight to arm it, ill add a rotory weapon to it (saw or a kenetic energy weapon)
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[This message has been edited by Wolfguard (edited June 08, 2000).]
Just the basics.
Vantec speed controller. 轜
PCM remote controll. 跌-700
12V Gellcell batteries ฤ-50 per(4-6needed)
12V Dc motors. 贝-300 per (2 or 4 needed)
Thats just to make it go. That dont count the price of the frame, armor, and weapons. That is just what is needed to make it go.
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Then you have one mother of a robot that will push ANYTHING about easily, and will also slice through everything up to pretty much titanium, then all you gotta do is sit back and let the fun commence.
Also, mount a video camera on it that records the live footage of the destruction, and upload it to here so we can all benefit from the mindless destroying of expensive robotic circuitry
Or alterantively ignore me, I'm having one of those days...
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The problem is you start to run into the rules of the game. Hydrolic pressures are 3000psi or less. that and to do that kind of damage and have that kind of drive power you would hit the weight limit. The best crusher i have seen is Razor < http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/Shore/9072/index.html >
he and Rhino are what my design are based on, took a little from each.
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Past and future pr0n star :)
does anybody else live by Sanfrancisco?
Anyone going from Sothern Cali???
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Evil Walks!
My 24 lb StompBot took its first baby steps today. since i dont have the remote ready yet(did not think that i would get the legs done so fast) i just turned it on and let it go. With only half the voltage it was easy to catch. It actualy went in a stright line!(Pushing a compaq workstation)
The shell gets built next week then it will be diet time. Im over weight but i have plenty of .5 inch Al. plate that i can mill off to lose it.(wish my diet was so easy)
Ill post a vid on my sight as soon as i have it.
w00t!
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The only other robot I like anywhere near as much is Panic Attack 2, < http://rswww.com/panic_attack > , but then thats only because its so damn simple but effective.
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Brian
looks like weve got 3-4 people already
theres a 1-4 and a 6-9+ event call me if you want to cordinate with us:
(510)814-0101
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w00t!
ill be wearing a blue shirt with kakishorts
and this is what my face will look like :
[This message has been edited by veistran (edited June 11, 2000).]
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How'd Pressure Drop do anyway? It looked pretty badass on his webpage.
I just want my bot back so i can hook the remote to it, but i think ill wait till they get the camera rig working
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[This message has been edited by Wolfguard (edited June 15, 2000).]
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wassap yall
Liquid Nitrogen makes things breakable by freezing water inside of the material, making it expand. but, metal or plexiglass, has little/no water content. if you get it inside of the enemy, and they have a 386, you MIGHT crack their chip. if they have gel-cells (correct me if I'm wrong) you might decrease the resistance, and overvoltage their systems, heating them, and if you put more N2 in, you (theoreticaly) could crack the chip...
To give a few weapon Ideas... (I might even start a combat arena(rule-less...)
here's the atomizer pipe...
this (in theory) works. no patent, it's my own idea... (10 mins in paint, 3 seconds in corel photopaint for conversion to 16 color gif)
hee hee..
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however, when I put some water in the tank, it was cool...
CRAAAACK!!
you could do that, 2 tubes... one N2, the other, water... fill the enemy, then dump a 1/6 of N2 in... rapid expantion of ice, creating an exploding effect. all rather nice...
anyone think of a rail gun, with the projectile attached to a string? (it'll pass rules... they _might_ append:
All projectile weapons must be attached to a string... ...and must not travel above the speed of sound...
[This message has been edited by Bob_Cannibal (edited June 16, 2000).]
Snipers do not use Sub-sonic rounds. Why you ask? because you dont want the idiot you putting a bullet in to hear the shot till after the bullet has hambergered his heart.
The power you would need for a railgun makes it useless in the weight classes of Battlebots.
LN2 will cause plastic to shatter because it causes it to crystalise. Same with metal. the crystals lose cohesion<sp>(yea, like that is the only one here) and fall apart under stress.
Oh, and the person that said something about a flipper. a KE flywheel causes more damage. Check out Nightmare, he is on the web someplace.
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Will u be attempting somekind of auto-firing device? It does look a bit top-heavy?