Author Topic: RFS' DSL proof-of-concept robots (Read 3825 times)

RFS · « **on:** May 12, 2014, 01:21:24 AM »

Folks were talking about alligators and robots in El Chickenado's thread today and while "The Chickenado's" robot was cool and all, I felt like a real crocophile had to come in and show him how it's done.

Here's Gatorphilia:

Under the hood shot provided for no reason other than it seems to be customary to do so. Nothing fancy, 2WD and a Judge burst with a stupid amount of attention paid to getting the spike strips to sit just right on the chassis. I don't know how well it fights -- probably pretty poorly -- but on a good day I can break the lifting apparatus in the test garage and the robot can self right.

I'm proud of the skin. I made sure that under the jaw skirt there was a gator mouth, and there's something else under the tail because I am a horrible, horrible person.

I'll post more robots later, namely the ones that I entered into MassimoV's BattleBots event once their mysterious air is done away with.

Links to pics of all the bots:
ANTWEIGHT

LIGHTWEIGHT
- ?? Minor Inconveniences Entry
- Jeremy Clarkson

MIDDLEWEIGHT
- Gatorphilia
- Legend of Bryce Genesis, The

HEAVYWEIGHT
- Thumperizer XIV

SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT
- Crush Fetish
- Infinity Gene, The

MISCELLANEOUS

Thyrus · « **Reply #1 on:** May 12, 2014, 01:31:16 AM »

use the green controll board. it matches its color

edit: Wait... is this meant to be a serious bot? With piglet drive and just a few ants?

Shield · « **Reply #2 on:** May 12, 2014, 04:30:08 AM »

looks pretty cool. Does it clamp down or does the jaw act like a hammer?

RFS · « **Reply #3 on:** May 12, 2014, 12:13:47 PM »

There's two copies of the robot in my team actually, one of them with the burst motor wired to be a flipper and the other to be a crusher. Havok tends to not like the crusher, though.

Originally I wanted the tail to be the flipper and the mouth to be the crusher but I ran out of weight. (It's a MW.)

RpJk · « **Reply #4 on:** May 12, 2014, 12:39:47 PM »

You planning on making any Stock bots soon RFS?

RFS · « **Reply #5 on:** May 12, 2014, 02:13:19 PM »

I do not know, I might. I recently made a few bots for old time's sake but my free time outside of work is severely limited so I don't have a lot of time to play RA2 unfortunately. (Literally like maybe just under an hour on a given day.)

Naryar · « **Reply #6 on:** May 12, 2014, 02:45:45 PM »

piglets for drive hnnnnnggg

RFS · « **Reply #7 on:** May 12, 2014, 03:37:08 PM »

Quote from: Naryar on May 12, 2014, 02:45:45 PM

piglets for drive hnnnnnggg

dat weight allotment tho

(It's all the spike strips for decoration. Because of those I couldn't have a burst motor in the tail either.)

Badnik96 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 12, 2014, 06:08:40 PM »

>Piglets

cmon RFS you can do better than that... At least magmotors or something, you have space...

It looks really cool, just... piglets...

Also I think it needs two or three more ants to fully power the judge burst , not sure how its battery drain is

RFS · « **Reply #9 on:** May 12, 2014, 06:12:03 PM »

Space yes weight no. (It's a little under 3kg from being 400.) :P The magmotors will put it over. The issue is all the spike strips; they're the reason why the tail is on a skirt hinge instead of also being on a motor.

Looks nice. It's a nice concept, that's about it. I also know nothing about battery consumption other than apparently you need one ant per motor for some bizarre programming oversight?

Badnik96 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 12, 2014, 06:19:07 PM »

One ant per spin motor. Burst motors still require full power as listed in the description.

Also I thought it was a heavyweight/cruiserweight, not a middleweight :P

RFS · « **Reply #11 on:** May 12, 2014, 06:37:58 PM »

If the rule is 1 ant per spin-type motor... at what point does it become more economical (weight-wise) to use one of the 15 or 20+ kg batteries? Or is that part of the programming oversight in that it's a battery-to-motor ratio that causes the magic to happen?

edit: Also yes Gatorphilia is a middleweight. I built him potentially to enter MassimoV's BattleBots 9 tournament however I opted to enter a different robot instead. I was proud of the design and skin and didn't want to keep it to myself so I gave the bot a better skin (after seeing the discussion about El Chickenado's "Florida BBQ" robot) and posted it here. :)

Badnik96 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 12, 2014, 06:45:38 PM »

I'm not sure about the oversight but it normally only becomes economical to use a larger battery if you're using really powerful burst motors. The 20kg batteries aren't at all efficient in DSL 2.1. I'm not exactly sure about battlepacks, but I don't make a lot of big flippers so I wouldn't know.

Come to think of it a lot of guys that used to make a lot of flippers vanished recently. SM doesn't post much, KM left again, and Vertigo hasn't posted in months...

Thyrus · « **Reply #13 on:** May 12, 2014, 11:48:40 PM »

so this is a serious bot then.

As I said before don`t use piglet and use more ants. Also save weight by using multi extenders instead of baseplate anchors

Jakewilliamson · « **Reply #14 on:** May 13, 2014, 01:32:30 AM »

Never use piglets for wheel drive, use mulit extenders cause there lighter than base anchors.

El Chickenado · « **Reply #15 on:** May 13, 2014, 06:14:38 PM »

Quote from: RFS on May 12, 2014, 01:21:24 AM

"The Chickenado's"

it obviously translates to tall bald man duh nice bot though

Shield · « **Reply #16 on:** May 14, 2014, 03:14:23 AM »

Quote from: Badnik96 on May 12, 2014, 06:45:38 PM

I'm not sure about the oversight but it normally only becomes economical to use a larger battery if you're using really powerful burst motors. The 20kg batteries aren't at all efficient in DSL 2.1. I'm not exactly sure about battlepacks, but I don't make a lot of big flippers so I wouldn't know.

Come to think of it a lot of guys that used to make a lot of flippers vanished recently. SM doesn't post much, KM left again, and Vertigo hasn't posted in months...

I shall take up the art of flipper building.

Prepare to be dissappointed.

Anyways, yea I think you can fit in a TWMR drive or a flat motor if you exchange the anchors with Multi Extenders

EDIT: might wanna lower the ME's a bit so the tip doesn't poke out the chassis. Otherwise the razor strips look like they're floating. (Found out the hard way)

123savethewhales · « **Reply #17 on:** May 14, 2014, 04:37:25 AM »

Dude just move the batteries and use astroflight with ant wide wheels.

RFS · « **Reply #18 on:** May 22, 2014, 01:47:09 AM »

I've been building bots but a lot of them are still "under wraps" and I'd like to have them debuted at the various AI tournaments that crop up in the community. I still have four unknown bots in BattleBots 9 and a pair of LW's for Minor Inconveniences (though the LW's were literally quick 20-minute hacks to fill a slot). Still, I feel badly for having nothing to post, so here is a Super Heavyweight that simply did not make the cut for the BattleBots 9 event.

This is The Infinity Gene, and it's a 1600kg stomper:

It looks really great when it moves, I was inspired by a steam-powered "centipede" type robot I had seen several years ago (can't seem to find a video, sorry). Pretty much almost half of the weight was dumped into the walking system. I had to cut some corners (I wanted each of the feet to be an "X" made of spikes but that wouldn't work) so the robot was a little slow and sluggish, plus the weapon was an afterthought and I didn't have the weight allotment to really make something out of it. I ended up coming up with a better proof-of-concept design to enter in BB9 so Infinity Gene got the axe.

I doubt I will enter it in any contests so I've decided to share this design here. :)

Naryar · « **Reply #19 on:** May 22, 2014, 11:38:57 AM »

all these copals hnnng

pretty sure your batteries drain very fast with 19 motors though...

also yeah, a hammer with a grip and turnspeed that low ? I know it's made to be cool but still derp.