Author Topic: King Mushroom's showcase (Read 87550 times)

Scrap Daddy · « **Reply #60 on:** July 20, 2010, 11:36:29 AM »

Heh, I like a lot of your designs so far. As for the poker up top, you would need 6 ants. General rule for batteries is one an per spin motor(drive, or weapon motors) and powering burst motors with as much as the component description says. Oh and you should use the biggest air tanks instead a bunch of the little ones.

One thing I would suggest for that bot is to make it 2WD NPCF with technos or vlads or something since as is, it's wasting weight.

But yeah, good start :D

SteveM4 · « **Reply #61 on:** July 20, 2010, 12:10:44 PM »

Yippee, RA2 DSL TC AI (mouthful!) is working!

EDIT: I have built a new Havok bot, or should I say Bots.
If one wasn't good enough for you then these TWO with a vertical flywheel between them should satisfy you.
These two fused Havoks have TWO Large JX motors (i think it is JX) each motor has 4 Battlepack batteries
2 NPCFs
Perm 80L with a DSL small (spacer) and DSL Small2 disk attached, with four small beater bars
Armour is Ti 5
Flipping arms are Titanium with steel panels on the ends.

Its a beast, best Havok yet IMO.

Sheck it out for yourselves, helpful feedback is welcome.
(I know I should've used ants, but the battle packs were easier to make symmetrical)

SteveM4 · « **Reply #62 on:** July 21, 2010, 03:12:24 AM »

I enjoy making small versions of larger bots, so I made a mini Havok Gemini.

Those multi-extenders start above the ants, not in them btw.

Helpful criticism is welcome...

Somebody · « **Reply #63 on:** July 21, 2010, 08:14:08 AM »

At least try to use BSGs more that Mag Snappers. With the weight you get you can use it for many other things. Also, the little points on the front of the chassis waste weight, and send off robots to the sides when they could go up the front of the wedge. Also, when the flipper's motors are up high on the bot, the flippers work better.

SteveM4 · « **Reply #64 on:** July 21, 2010, 08:38:01 AM »

Oh, thanks, i'll give those ideas a shot.
It didn't hit me that the points would affect weight, thanks! :)

JoeBlo · « **Reply #65 on:** July 21, 2010, 08:42:23 AM »

Quote from: king mushroom on July 20, 2010, 12:10:44 PM

RA2 DSL TC AI

just call it DSL for simplicity

just remember white a chassis make look cool it can fill up a lot of weight in your limit.. so its best to minimize the size as much as you can

Badnik96 · « **Reply #66 on:** July 21, 2010, 09:30:52 AM »

On Havok Gemini, I believe its overpowered.
1 and for Perm
2 ants for both NPC's
7 ants each for JX's

..so 17 ants total. The more efficient way to do it is 2-3 tall orange batts and 3 ants.

SteveM4 · « **Reply #67 on:** July 21, 2010, 12:03:33 PM »

New bot:
It is a gut-ripper called Cataclism

Squirrel_Monkey · « **Reply #68 on:** July 21, 2010, 12:11:56 PM »

Don't use separate drive for when inverted, use bigger wheels or a srimech.

SteveM4 · « **Reply #69 on:** July 21, 2010, 12:18:34 PM »

I had 100ks left and the design worked for the poker (page 3).
I did try a srimech but the BSGs or Mag didn't have enough power to right a HW

Squirrel_Monkey · « **Reply #70 on:** July 21, 2010, 12:19:47 PM »

2 BSG's are strong enough for a srimech, I would just use bigger wheels though.

NFX · « **Reply #71 on:** July 21, 2010, 12:59:30 PM »

I agree with S_M, you could remove the top set of NPCs, and move the bottom set into the middle, give it some bigger wheels, that should work. Also, the chassis could be a little smaller, I think that could give yuo enough weight to use metal hinges for your wedges, they tend to work better than skirts.

SteveM4 · « **Reply #72 on:** July 21, 2010, 01:27:45 PM »

No pics yet, but I removed the top set of NPCs and found that the drums self-right the bot
(well, on to its rear really, but it runs on its rear anyway so :/)
Also added Iron spikes to the other side of the Perms so it can also right itself from its side

Used excess weight on armour. Now titanium 5

P.S. I am putting Havok Duo (was Gemini Havok, but that's copying team Mace's Gemini) onto Robot Exchange.
I would do it now, but I don't know how!

Badnik96 · « **Reply #73 on:** July 21, 2010, 01:34:44 PM »

I put instructions on how to upload your bot on J24's showcase, go there.

SteveM4 · « **Reply #74 on:** July 21, 2010, 01:40:16 PM »

Thanks

'The Havotic Duo' is now up!

WARNING: May suck badly!

J24 · « **Reply #75 on:** July 21, 2010, 03:38:00 PM »

From what i've seen, (which isn't much, btw, but still) that is great. how do you get it to flip the car?

Jack Daniels · « **Reply #76 on:** July 21, 2010, 03:44:04 PM »

Your creativity is awesome. I like looking at your showcase. :D

SteveM4 · « **Reply #77 on:** July 21, 2010, 04:33:58 PM »

@J24, witch one do you mean, they all flip the car!

J24 · « **Reply #78 on:** July 22, 2010, 04:11:44 AM »

any of them, as i can only dream about flipping the car

SteveM4 · « **Reply #79 on:** July 22, 2010, 10:57:42 AM »

This is probably wrong but...
I have found that the lighter the flipping arm, the more powerful the flip.
I use JX Large bursts.
Have a (relatively) long arc of the flipper
shorter = better

Correct me if I'm wrong but this has fared me well for while I have had DSL