Author Topic: Tashic's Ironforge robots (Read 7224 times)

Tashic · « **on:** July 19, 2015, 01:48:20 PM »

Ciao,
my style is going to be usually IRL or the robots are going to look IRL.

Here's two robots I made:

Incandescent

Is actually 4wd, the two front wheels are not powered, but you can think of them chain linked to the other.
I love 6wd robots! So much I built one IRL

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The actual chassis is the small rectangle on the middle, and then the structure is built around it.

UpperCut

It gyro dances a lot!
Here too the structure is built around the "electronics box" as I like to call it.
The perm is half inside and half outside because I used a linear actuator, I moved it with the controls, attached the perm and retracted the actuator.
The actuator isn't supposed to move, there aren't any air tanks, so it's only a structural part.
It can self right if you spin the disk...down.

Naryar · « **Reply #1 on:** July 19, 2015, 01:55:13 PM »

that is pretty damn well built AND cool looking for a newbie. +1

cephalopod · « **Reply #2 on:** July 19, 2015, 01:55:49 PM »

These look cool, nice work. I like your structural work especially.
Also kudos for working out a way to have the perm half-inside the bot that's botlab legal and not bot file editing like I know I'd do :P

G.K. · « **Reply #3 on:** July 19, 2015, 02:17:59 PM »

As the others have said, these look very cool - I'm already a big fan of your style. The VS especially is great - it feels very real to me.

RedAce · « **Reply #4 on:** July 19, 2015, 02:22:14 PM »

Your off to a really good start. I like that, and your bots.

Merrick · « **Reply #5 on:** July 19, 2015, 02:48:13 PM »

That's a very promising start, especially with the perm work.
Keep it up.

Jaydee99 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 19, 2015, 06:22:22 PM »

I'm blown away at how awesome the first one is!!

Domanating · « **Reply #7 on:** July 19, 2015, 07:33:56 PM »

Odd sense of Déjà vu here :P

I see you did your homework lurking around the forum. It's not that common to find such good robots right at the start

I like mainly Incandescent for it's clean compact look.

Uppercut's extender placement looks a bit too disorganized for me but as a perfectionist I may be a bit too harsh on appearances

Avalanche · « **Reply #8 on:** July 20, 2015, 04:59:01 AM »

Please put these on the bot exchange.

playzooki · « **Reply #9 on:** July 20, 2015, 02:17:45 PM »

These bots are well built, i look forward to seeing more from you.

Also are you Tashic on rw101 and fra? EDIT: just seen your post in the new users section, answers my question lol

Tashic · « **Reply #10 on:** July 20, 2015, 07:24:05 PM »

Thanks for the compliments!

Avalance: the previous two robots are in the bot exchange

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Dominating: the messiness of UpperCut is because when I see a very exposed component, I want to protect it!

Craaig: I do the trick because I prefer doing all the building in the bot lab.

Playzooki: yes, and I'm in the FRA forum too. If you look at my IRL robots you will understand how much I love the storm 2 shape, since almost every robot has the front and sides angled.

Now for two robots inspired by other robots (guess which):

ElectricShock:

Armour: steel 5mm
Done again with the actuator trick, the last photo shows the position of the motor with the actuator extended.

LockReload:

Armour: steel 10mm
The two parts of the weapon can move indipendently.

Now one question: is the actuator trick allowed in the IRL metagame, if the actuator does not move and anything attached to it doesn't clip through the other electrical components?
Because someone IRL could get something shaped like a tube and cut a slot shaped like the motor to mount the motor to the chassis of the robot.

G.K. · « **Reply #11 on:** July 20, 2015, 07:34:35 PM »

Both robots are beautifully constructed. The use of those blades as wheelguards on LockReload is fantastic. What's the component on the back of it?

Tashic · « **Reply #12 on:** July 20, 2015, 07:40:13 PM »

G.K. those are 2 dsl bars

G.K. · « **Reply #13 on:** July 20, 2015, 07:41:53 PM »

Ah. On closer inspection of course they are, not sure how I was unsure... :P

Squirrel_Monkey · « **Reply #14 on:** July 21, 2015, 04:23:11 AM »

Very cool stuff here.
I would accept static stacking of structural components legit for IRL style. So long as the actuator isn't wired to move then that's fine.

Tashic · « **Reply #15 on:** July 21, 2015, 01:04:40 PM »

Saw in some showcases, in the dsl category, people made gost raptor inspired robots, so I just made a replica of it:

There are some things that I don't like, like the blade being too far on the back, and the front armour.
But the blade does not break in half the moment it touches something!

helloface · « **Reply #16 on:** July 21, 2015, 01:31:57 PM »

Already my favourite IF builder. I really hope you stick around here, we need more users like you.

Naryar · « **Reply #17 on:** July 22, 2015, 02:50:23 AM »

sex on wheels

Jaydee99 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 22, 2015, 04:50:07 AM »

Brilliance in a machine, on all of your robots so far!

G.K. · « **Reply #19 on:** July 22, 2015, 05:19:48 AM »

Very jealous of your ability.

Have you checked out the tournament section? There's a couple of Ironforge ones in signups atm.