Author Topic: Near Chaos Robotics (Read 182145 times)

Badnik96 · « **Reply #340 on:** September 25, 2010, 04:37:09 PM »

Love the little green light under the mag.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #341 on:** September 25, 2010, 11:06:15 PM »

Pretty zippy little thing. For some reason I imagined it would be slower. Though it will probably be slower once the blade is on.

MikeNCR · « **Reply #342 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.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #343 on:** October 02, 2010, 01:16:15 PM »

How did you manage that? :P

powerrave · « **Reply #344 on:** October 02, 2010, 01:30:19 PM »

can only say you were very lucky then. guess you will have some job repairing that.

SKBT · « **Reply #345 on:** October 02, 2010, 04:14:27 PM »

Well at least it lived up to its name. :P
Sorry it was a joke I just had to make

That was one of the bots I was looking forward to seeing at FI.

GoldenFox93 · « **Reply #346 on:** October 02, 2010, 06:27:25 PM »

Quote from: MikeNCR 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.

(Image removed from quote.)

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.

That's gotta hurt.

JoeBlo · « **Reply #347 on:** October 03, 2010, 04:47:51 AM »

Holy Flying Robot Batman

glad to hear you came out unhurt, a scary moment for sure... sorry about the repair job you have ahead of you.. and to think I thought it was bad when my little tiny AW spinner broke a motor mount... its got nothing on that.

NFX · « **Reply #348 on:** October 03, 2010, 08:08:57 PM »

Holy crap, that looks vicious. I'm just glad that you're alright after what happened.

MikeNCR · « **Reply #349 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.

JoeBlo · « **Reply #350 on:** October 04, 2010, 12:13:51 AM »

well I guess on the bright side you do have a story to tell when someone query's the name

MikeNCR · « **Reply #351 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.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #352 on:** October 04, 2010, 03:01:25 PM »

;(

So that means no RW2 then?

MikeNCR · « **Reply #353 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.

somestrangeguy · « **Reply #354 on:** October 04, 2010, 03:27:26 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

MikeNCR · « **Reply #355 on:** October 04, 2010, 03:38:37 PM »

Quote from: somestrangeguy on October 04, 2010, 03:27:26 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.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #356 on:** October 04, 2010, 03:40:39 PM »

Quote from: MikeNCR 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.

Could you send it now then please? I'm kinda short on entries ATM.

G.K. · « **Reply #357 on:** October 04, 2010, 03:45:09 PM »

Calm down about entries Badnik. They will come.

MikeNCR · « **Reply #358 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.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #359 on:** October 04, 2010, 09:59:01 PM »

All I can say about your RW2 entry mike, is that it might repeat the performance it did IRL.