Jamin's things

[Jamin]

Wow, I haven't posted a stock bot in ages

Lightweight, one black, and some hecka tyte cambered wheels.

[Badger]

Could you shave off some weight for caster protection for the bottom?

[Jamin]

I managed to get two on by doing this

[Jamin]

So I decided to take a break from regular bot building and try something experimental, and see if I could make a shuffler type bot that doesn't suck absolute ass

well, it still sucks absolute ass. BUT, it is actually quite speedy, and although it is in no way a fighter, I have a feeling that with some tweaking, I (we?) might actually be able to create some serious robots that use this mode of transportation. Maybe some HS?

[Badnik96]

Looks interesting, but is it AI-able?

[Jamin]

Looks interesting, but is it AI-able?

Well, it doesn't actually use the two servo actuators, so I'd assume you'd just be able to AI it to alternate firing the pistons. Would require some timing though, you have to wait for it to reset and stabilize itself after firing one leg (you alternate them) or else it could flip.

[Mr. AS]

hmmm, maybe you could use the 'snappers firing down' thing to make some kind of wedge killer ? kinda like that shw from the borg team in starcore

[Jamin]

hmmm, maybe you could use the 'snappers firing down' thing to make some kind of wedge killer ? kinda like that shw from the borg team in starcore

Hmm, what if we made "legs" covered in razors using the same techniques used for putting weaponry on rammers? Would we be able to make a robot that is the opposite of a popup, that walks on the tops of robots and tries to damage them from above?

[G.K.]

How much of the setup is to do with movement?

[Jamin]

How much of the setup is to do with movement?

The actuators where going to be a part of the set up, but I ended up not using them and just left them in as a mount
also #swag

Red Chilll
This thing's pretty underweight, at least underweight enough for me to add more weapons, which I will do as well as make a splash for it when I wake up in the morning...this and the other one are both pretty underweight middleweights, so I'm gonna try to improve them without weighing them down too much (after all I will have to if I want this design to go anywhere) since they're actually kind of speedy, at least Red Chilll is a little quicker than you'd expect.

[Badger]

Is it any good at turning?

[Jamin]

Is it any good at turning?

yeah, I guess you could say so. after I fit it with weapons and possibly give it a new skin and all of that I will get a vidya up on youtube somehow

[Mr. AS]

hmmm, maybe you could use the 'snappers firing down' thing to make some kind of wedge killer ? kinda like that shw from the borg team in starcore

Hmm, what if we made "legs" covered in razors using the same techniques used for putting weaponry on rammers? Would we be able to make a robot that is the opposite of a popup, that walks on the tops of robots and tries to damage them from above?

yea kinda like that, i was thinking disks/tribars with weapons on them (like a regular crawler) and have some weapons on snappers/pistons shoot out from inside

idk how effective this'd be but itd be fun to watch

[System32]

If Simpleweapon.py works, someone could jury-rig it into the movement with a little editing for the turning and such.

[Jamin]

Updated as " Kold remedy"



Things I have noticed:
>Because of the lighter motors and the fact that they cannot push much weight quickly, they seem to come up around the lightweight to under middleweight areas
>Kold Remedy NEEDS the blade spinning to counter the walking motion, if it isn't spinning he falls over
>You have to wait for the bot to "settle" for a moment (about a second) before you start up the weapon at the start of the round, or else it will fall over

[Naryar]

While I appreciate your originality as always, the fact that you are using a naturally unstable bot type (VS) and making it ten times more unstable with a grasshopper drive bothers me.

Also piston drive is awesum.

[Jamin]

I'm definitely going to try the design out with an HS soon, my only fear is that it will be hard to stop a walking HS from going ape sh** and turning into a pseudocrawler after one hit.

[System32]

>You have to wait for the bot to "settle" for a moment (about a second) before you start up the weapon at the start of the round, or else it will fall over

That happens with some VS designs.

[kill343gs]

>You have to wait for the bot to "settle" for a moment (about a second) before you start up the weapon at the start of the round, or else it will fall over

That happens with some VS designs.

See: Earlier versions of Alien Queen on most people's computers

[Jamin]

i did a thing happened