Author Topic: Near Chaos Robotics (Read 182502 times)

MikeNCR · « **Reply #680 on:** September 21, 2011, 11:54:56 PM »

Quote from: Clickbeetle on September 21, 2011, 11:46:04 PM

Omega Force has a lot of power for an open-arena bot. Good job with your Dragon*con win.

Thanks. Omega Force is a neat bot. http://www.wa4dsy.com/robot/omegaforce2-robot has a bunch of info on how it works.

MikeNCR · « **Reply #681 on:** September 24, 2011, 10:57:33 PM »

Holmes Hobbies is now an official sponsor of Near Chaos Robotics. Check out their stuff.

Some of you have seen the abuse the BR-XL's have held up to, but for those that haven't the only way I've killed any of them in my 12 or 30 was in this video-

If you look closely at around 26s in the video two little black boxes come out of the chassis. Those are the BR-XL's, which are then hit directly by Steel Shadow.

MikeNCR · « **Reply #682 on:** September 29, 2011, 11:33:17 PM »

It's tough to get a scale of things from a cad image. Here's a printout of the 30 next to Apollyon-

powerrave · « **Reply #683 on:** September 30, 2011, 10:55:25 AM »

Nice. It's a little smaller then I expected. Oh well..

NFX · « **Reply #684 on:** September 30, 2011, 12:39:40 PM »

That's a bit more square than I thought with the CAD. Still looking alright, though.

MikeNCR · « **Reply #685 on:** October 18, 2011, 04:25:43 PM »

Motor City Massacre has a fully functional grabbing/lifting arm now-

Squirrel_Monkey · « **Reply #686 on:** October 18, 2011, 04:39:16 PM »

110% Awesome. Any chance of vids sometime?

NFX · « **Reply #687 on:** October 18, 2011, 04:58:54 PM »

Looking seriously nice there, Mike. I can't wait to see it in action.

powerrave · « **Reply #688 on:** October 18, 2011, 04:59:45 PM »

Awesomeness!!!!!

MikeNCR · « **Reply #689 on:** October 18, 2011, 06:26:35 PM »

I'm building a practice arena out of an old pallet and some scrap materials soon so my gf and I can practice(MCM is her bot) and so some local friends that want to learn how to make robots have a place to get used to driving them, so videos should get out eventually.

powerrave · « **Reply #690 on:** October 19, 2011, 05:49:27 AM »

And eventually, maybe it would grow out to some local mini event. =D

MikeNCR · « **Reply #691 on:** October 19, 2011, 07:11:33 PM »

Did a bit on the arena today, still need to get another section of L bracket and get all of them mounted. Planning two 1' pushouts on the sides with the close edges.

Jack Daniels · « **Reply #692 on:** October 20, 2011, 04:11:19 AM »

Wow. A cordless drill survives in Mike's household without getting turned into a bot. Must be a pretty special drill.

MikeNCR · « **Reply #693 on:** October 20, 2011, 09:36:56 PM »

Kobalos got a bit of a ballast/armor upgrade. Two layers of 1/8" steel, inner layer is bolted to the chassis, outer is goop'd to the inner layer. Weight is 453g.

powerrave · « **Reply #694 on:** October 21, 2011, 05:50:00 AM »

Looks nice~

MikeNCR · « **Reply #695 on:** October 21, 2011, 06:33:39 PM »

A bit more arena work done today. Planning to get all the sides screwed down tomorrow.

MikeNCR · « **Reply #696 on:** October 23, 2011, 06:45:33 PM »

Arena is mechanically complete, still planning to add some paint but it's otherwise done.

4' x 4' combat area
2x 1' pushouts
1/8" thick steel walls
Side mounted casters and pallet base for easy transport
Cost: <$150

russian roulette · « **Reply #697 on:** October 23, 2011, 07:17:49 PM »

Now let's see Motor City Massacre work!

powerrave · « **Reply #698 on:** October 24, 2011, 10:26:11 AM »

Looks like a nice arena. I'm guessing you won't let any spinners fight on it though. Might get a bit too dangerous.

Conraaa · « **Reply #699 on:** October 24, 2011, 10:43:00 AM »

Nice arena. Part of me was expecting a giant NCR logo in the middle though :P