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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread

« on: September 05, 2016, 07:59:37 AM »

My understanding of the format is that it was meant to be more for the roboteers Than the tv audience, because I would imagine that roboteers hate when they have an easily fixed mechanical fault and their tournament is over. Unfortunately for the viewers, this means that sometimes you have to watch mr speed squared vs foxic and thor's grand final appearances. on the other hand, carbide gets through its heat, and we get t2 vs carbide and we get pp3d vs storm and we dont get gabriel in the grand final vs 2 flippers

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Hazardpuss going to school

« on: September 03, 2016, 11:59:09 AM »

here is a functional version of mercury



obviously the part where the flipper intersects the piston is unrealistic, but I am still too salty about the T-minus arm not working that I don't feel like finding a realistic layout. It is lightweight which is nice, but unfortunately it gets rekt by scout. my suspicion is that the ai just wont let you get a good flip in so I don't know what I aught to do from here, I was hoping to be able to get ring-outs on lightweight bots, but this setup doesn't seem to work for that.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Hazardpuss going to school

« on: September 02, 2016, 01:25:53 PM »

How many batteries do I need for 2 betas and 2 npcs? I can try switching the front snappers with a skirt hinge, but the other things are kind of necessary

I found something interesting


I was working on something similar to the top rig and I found that it wasn't lifting nearly as much as it ought to, so I made the bottom rig and I found that the bottom rig with 1 vdma burst or 3 or 1 beta would not lift the lifter bar in the testing area. I then tried with a 144 titanium extender with a short titanium skirt on the end instead of the t-minus arm and found that it worked.

in conclusion t- minus arm is completely useless

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Thyrus`Showcase

« on: September 02, 2016, 01:24:00 PM »

it does, thank you

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Hazardpuss going to school

« on: September 02, 2016, 09:09:45 AM »

The heavyweight has slow drive so that I can drive it with my keyboard and be able to actually line up with the bots I am trying to launch.
If you mean that the flippers are not powerful enough I would welcome advice as to how to fix it
The small wedges are there to lower the ground clearance so that I go under just about everything. This includes the flipper in the practice area.

For the spinner I couldn't find a perm long enough for 120 long dsl bars. I will however take your advice in the sense that I will make space for where I would put the perm.
As for the teeth I am not sure what to say, the numbers looked the best but I will look at the dsl guide and change them

edit: If there was a Perm long enough I would be able to put the batteries under the chain. currently there isn't a whole lot that I can do about it.

According to Naryar, the teeth I am using are pretty good.

with the weight change from changing motors, I was able to upgrade to titanium 1

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Thyrus`Showcase

« on: September 01, 2016, 09:25:39 PM »

how do I use a storm piston like you did in 4 stegs down?

I like making strong flippers so the Idea of using a Pneumatic system sounds promising and the only method I have found at the higher weights is multiple beta burst motors

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Thyrus`Showcase

« on: September 01, 2016, 07:23:07 PM »

I have a really stupid question about 4 stegs down.
How do you make something attached to your bot collide with the storm piston?

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Hazardpuss going to school

« on: September 01, 2016, 06:31:21 PM »

This is my heavyweight flipper that I use to get ring-outs

the beta bust motors are the spring loaded kind, the teeth are cutting teeth to stop bots that try to drive over me. (maybe I should mount one ripping tooth to the base-plate mount instead of the spike strip)

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DSL TC Showcases / Hazardpuss going to school

« on: September 01, 2016, 06:16:00 PM »

my lw carbide rip-off
plastic 1 armor
2x heavy double sided teeth
1 dsl bar 20x120
2x twm3r drive
1x perm 80l

originally this was a mw with a wedge at the back with a ramming plate for armor and hypnodisc teeth on the bar, but it was `300kg so I stripped it down to make it light weight
now that I look at it I see that I could stack the batteries and make it not as wide so that I could have stronger armor, but this bot usually has its spinner break before the chassis as it is.

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Discussion / Re: A newb and extenders

« on: September 01, 2016, 03:55:05 PM »

Ok so I discovered that if you alternate which end you attach from it always has the connectors on the same side. also thank you

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Discussion / A newb and extenders

« on: August 26, 2016, 12:44:09 PM »

Like any good newb I looked up info on how to make robots properly. One of the things people mentioned was using extenders, but I have a problem. How do I know how much I am rotating the round face of the extender? As far as I can tell it is featureless.

Also would it be possible to re-skin the extenders to show where the attachment points are?