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Robots Showcase / Team Riptide
« on: June 17, 2015, 06:00:20 PM »
Welcome to Team Riptide, where we make robots that don't work.
Brief overview, I'm relatively new to the sport but been building for ~3 years now, competed for the first time in 2014 at the Featherweight champs.
Plagiarised this from my other build diary I have but it's to the point, don't break what isn't fixed or... something.
Current Machines
Hardwired 2 - Featherweight (30lb)
All hail the 7mm-ish hardox 450 brick. Never been a particularly successful machine, but I'll be damned if it isn't nearly indestructible. Keep throwing it in with spinners to try and break it but the shell's still intact after two years, though the fact that it's tiny with Speed 900-size motors that touch the lid and baseplate means it goes through everything else like there's no tomorrow. It's getting some unsensored outrunners and being resigned to non-competition fights to make way for the next generation Hardwired...
Main problems it had other than that was just generally being undriveable. It had very not grippy wheels, no mixing and no gyro for nice control - that mixed with being so much faster than it needed meant it was a struggle getting it to go where I wanted it to. Few plans to rectify that, mostly to add grippier wheels, mixing and a gyro, as well as probably a few magnets or something. Still not 100% sure.
Competition record (1st/2nd/3rd in 3 way fights): 1-1-2
Playlist:
Fhqwhgads - UK Beetleweight (1.5kg)
We don't do ratbots over here, but if we did, this would be one of them. Built in a couple of hours with stuff I found in my shed, and should not have done anywhere as well as it did. In that it lasted an entire event and took on 3 spinners* and beat** them all. It went out first in the competition it entered, but it was quite a fun one, even if it did once again drive about as well as a cruise liner on land, mostly because each gearbox was held in with a single bolt. I ran out...
Despite its apparent lack of quality though, I actually really enjoyed it and was told the crowd loved it too, so I'm in the process of upgrading it. the 2mm alu chassis is going to be 5mm hdpe probably, the front bit of wood maybe some 15-20mm hdpe and the motors are going to be 400w 32mm inrunners. Because sensible.
Competition record: 0-1
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL97Lksx8KkkFTs6L8REXl_mHW6-dGnScD
*only one properly spun
**most of them just stopped working
Inactive machines
Overdrive - Featherweight (30lb)
Overdrive was initially designed as Hardwired 2 with a disc, but eventually evolved into a more Federal/General looking design. The idea was to make it a brushless-driven rambot with a powerful spinning drum on the front, similar to General, K2, Rango and so on and the design came together quite nicely. Unfortunately, the flaw in the operation was that I was the one CAD-ing the thing up, and I -may- have forgotten to put bolts in the drum, and had most of the machine lasercut out of steel - when the parts arrived, they didn't fit with the drum on. Hooray, well done Matt. As a result, me and Haz, who made Massacre (mostly Haz) had to work to redesign and build the machine on the fly in 48 hours before the championships. Naturally, it had an absolute ton of problems, but the concept was there and it worked great considering the timeframe. The drum motor broke in fight 2, and I had no spare shafts with which to fix it... so instead I took the drum off and replaced it with a particularly deadly inflatable banana, creating its alter ego Banana Overdrive. It was great.
I'm currently working towards rebuilding it with the original lasercut panels I had, and just generally improving reliability as well as making it better on the whole. And maybe an axe.
Competition record (1st/2nd/3rd in 3-way fights): 0-2-2
Playlists:
Overdrive - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL97Lksx8KkkFDA8u_h_lZ7UnH9RQKWJVM
Banana Overdrive - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL97Lksx8KkkFxD9wEITn-faiG7NodP2s5
Brief overview, I'm relatively new to the sport but been building for ~3 years now, competed for the first time in 2014 at the Featherweight champs.
Plagiarised this from my other build diary I have but it's to the point, don't break what isn't fixed or... something.
Current Machines
Hardwired 2 - Featherweight (30lb)
All hail the 7mm-ish hardox 450 brick. Never been a particularly successful machine, but I'll be damned if it isn't nearly indestructible. Keep throwing it in with spinners to try and break it but the shell's still intact after two years, though the fact that it's tiny with Speed 900-size motors that touch the lid and baseplate means it goes through everything else like there's no tomorrow. It's getting some unsensored outrunners and being resigned to non-competition fights to make way for the next generation Hardwired...
Main problems it had other than that was just generally being undriveable. It had very not grippy wheels, no mixing and no gyro for nice control - that mixed with being so much faster than it needed meant it was a struggle getting it to go where I wanted it to. Few plans to rectify that, mostly to add grippier wheels, mixing and a gyro, as well as probably a few magnets or something. Still not 100% sure.
Competition record (1st/2nd/3rd in 3 way fights): 1-1-2
Playlist:
Fhqwhgads - UK Beetleweight (1.5kg)
We don't do ratbots over here, but if we did, this would be one of them. Built in a couple of hours with stuff I found in my shed, and should not have done anywhere as well as it did. In that it lasted an entire event and took on 3 spinners* and beat** them all. It went out first in the competition it entered, but it was quite a fun one, even if it did once again drive about as well as a cruise liner on land, mostly because each gearbox was held in with a single bolt. I ran out...
Despite its apparent lack of quality though, I actually really enjoyed it and was told the crowd loved it too, so I'm in the process of upgrading it. the 2mm alu chassis is going to be 5mm hdpe probably, the front bit of wood maybe some 15-20mm hdpe and the motors are going to be 400w 32mm inrunners. Because sensible.
Competition record: 0-1
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL97Lksx8KkkFTs6L8REXl_mHW6-dGnScD
*only one properly spun
**most of them just stopped working
Inactive machines
Overdrive - Featherweight (30lb)
Overdrive was initially designed as Hardwired 2 with a disc, but eventually evolved into a more Federal/General looking design. The idea was to make it a brushless-driven rambot with a powerful spinning drum on the front, similar to General, K2, Rango and so on and the design came together quite nicely. Unfortunately, the flaw in the operation was that I was the one CAD-ing the thing up, and I -may- have forgotten to put bolts in the drum, and had most of the machine lasercut out of steel - when the parts arrived, they didn't fit with the drum on. Hooray, well done Matt. As a result, me and Haz, who made Massacre (mostly Haz) had to work to redesign and build the machine on the fly in 48 hours before the championships. Naturally, it had an absolute ton of problems, but the concept was there and it worked great considering the timeframe. The drum motor broke in fight 2, and I had no spare shafts with which to fix it... so instead I took the drum off and replaced it with a particularly deadly inflatable banana, creating its alter ego Banana Overdrive. It was great.
I'm currently working towards rebuilding it with the original lasercut panels I had, and just generally improving reliability as well as making it better on the whole. And maybe an axe.
Competition record (1st/2nd/3rd in 3-way fights): 0-2-2
Playlists:
Overdrive - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL97Lksx8KkkFDA8u_h_lZ7UnH9RQKWJVM
Banana Overdrive - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL97Lksx8KkkFxD9wEITn-faiG7NodP2s5