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« on: October 04, 2010, 10:38:04 PM »
All I can say about your RW2 entry mike, is that it might repeat the performance it did IRL. 
Wouldn't that make it the most accurate replica?
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« on: October 04, 2010, 08:42:04 PM »
Did any of the previous award-winners actually use their prize in their BBEANS6 robot?
I don't even think these components were available when I won BBEANS2
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« on: October 04, 2010, 08:07:43 PM »
Here's where the cad model for the redesign stands:  The big structural improvement isn't modeled, as I'm looking into making a full composite shell for the robot. The components will be mounted to the shell, but this shows the general layout. Working name is Power Mad.
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« on: October 04, 2010, 03:38:37 PM »
Wow. If it wasn't so close that you got injured, I would make a certain RA2 reference here. Glad you're ok :D
I'm guessing it was about me witnessing a havoc explosion first hand? Go right ahead. Nobody got hurt, lessons have been learned and it won't happen again.
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« on: October 04, 2010, 03:16:28 PM »
Well, Mr. SD was a real bot, it just existed for a very short time. I could still send in that file. The rebuild will probably take a fair bit of time, as I'm hoping to make the chassis when I'm back at RIT for the winter. Also, from a practical standpoint, with the direction I'm going it'd be very difficult to do an accurate replica of the robot in RA2 without a lot of custom parts.
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« on: October 04, 2010, 02:44:54 PM »
So, the bad news, I'll never compete with Mr. Self Destruct. The good news is that I'm working on a major design overhaul and am planning on a less prophetic name.
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« on: October 03, 2010, 10:29:23 PM »
I had a nice long drive from Rochester, NY to Boston, MA today to think about what exactly happened, and I think I've got it mostly figured out. When the bar's up to speed, turning in one direction causes the gyro forces to push down on the robot, the other, lift up. The robot was lifting up just before detonation, so what I'm thinking happened is the bar went up to and past being at 0*, resulting in the gyro forces pushing it back down, and ended up vibrating the whole thing until it flipped/flexed/something and ripped itself apart.
I'll do a full tear down of the robot when I'm back in Rochester at the end of October, but a surprising number of parts seem to have survived. The only certain casualties are the battery packs, which were dented, gouged and cut into (though no smoke/fire) and either the weapon motor or gearbox, as there was a lot more resistance than normal to spinning it free hand. The Thor883 may be dead, as the bottom of the case was ripped off and the rest of the Thor took a 75' flight, though I won't know for certain until I put power to it.
The Dewalts, drive speed controllers and receiver all seem to have survived.
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« on: October 02, 2010, 01:15:12 PM »
Seeing as I'm posting this from my house instead of the hospital, today wasn't all bad.  The side of the chassis with the Thor 883 was sent flying ~75', clearing the roof of my truck, which I was standing behind. Suffice to say, I won't be at Franklin.
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« on: September 24, 2010, 08:54:03 PM »
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« on: September 21, 2010, 08:47:51 PM »
Weight update:
Original weight- 31.4lbs
Aluminum braces, top armor reduction and battery swap- 0.75lbs removed
Removal of excess hardware- 0.2lbs removed
Baseplate swap- 0.33lbs removed
Total reduction- 1.28lbs
Numbers are taken from either a mini-scale or SW model of the part with thicknesses adjusted. I'm rounding down to give room for error.
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« on: September 19, 2010, 09:39:58 PM »
Got a template from Noodle 
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« on: September 19, 2010, 08:49:25 PM »
-imgsnip-
This was done on the Chevy template
You can use that for my tourney if you'd like.
Sure, and I can't get the template for Thunder from the site, so it'll have to wait until I can get a layered template from somewhere else. (download page isn't loading in firefox, chrome or IE)
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« on: September 19, 2010, 08:32:27 PM »
 This was done on the Chevy template
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« on: September 19, 2010, 05:58:54 PM »
It was done on the COT model from one of the newer games, so it could have been any one. When are things starting officially? If I've got a few days I'll probably port my skin over to '03 since I've got the .psd files with everything in it.
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« on: September 18, 2010, 06:26:30 PM »
I'm working a paid internship at iRobot in Bedford, MA. on the government/industrial side, mostly with this- and occasionally with this- as a mechanical engineer.
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« on: September 18, 2010, 05:22:24 PM »
Ah why not-   This is for a different nascar game, but it should be easy enough to mod for 03 Note: I've got this in .pdf, .dds, and .jpg, so if someone wants to tweak it to fit the proper template shoot me a PM.
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« on: September 18, 2010, 05:18:22 PM »
It's a Thor883 (now Victor 885)
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« on: September 18, 2010, 01:07:06 PM »
Weapon wiring is done, lights are mounted and the rx is installed. Waiting on some 4mm plugs and a pwm cable for the Thor 883 to finish the wiring completely. Mr. Self Destruct is 99% done with 3 weeks to go. Going to take it in to work next week and do another weigh in. There's still some chassis material to trim, but that will go quickly and I want to know where I'm at. I've got everything lined up to trim the bars down to 26" from 28" which will put me nicely under 30lbs. http://twitpic.com/2pq487
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« on: September 17, 2010, 11:16:45 PM »
Progress so far:
Drive side wiring is complete
Baseplate has been swapped and trimmed
Dewalt retainers have been swapped from steel to aluminum hardware
Some fasteners have been replaced with aluminum hardware
Power lights are completed and working
Stuff for tomorrow/Sunday:
Complete weapon wiring
Install receiver
Secure lights to chassis
Begin testing/calibration
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« on: September 14, 2010, 10:06:31 AM »
Spare A28-150 has been ordered and speed controllers should ship today. I've also got a strange and wonderful assortment of material and hardware including aluminum screws, fiberglass sheet and woven aluminum cloth on the way from McMaster. Goals for the weekend are to swap the baseplate and have the robot fully wired and running.
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