It was bound to happen

It's been a while since the last nerd blog. Have been busy traveling and enjoying the summer. But now back to building combat robots. Back to flying drones. Back to hopefully brewing another beer soon. And lastly buying a 3d printer.

I went with the monoprice maker select v2 printer which also goes by a few other brand names. Supposedly a cheap Chinese knockoff, but it works really well for $350. The Chinese actually copied something and didn't mess it up???

Still working out the kinks, but it works

Back to Beer Brewing

Now that the robot competition is over. Back to working on the beer stand. I'm at the point where I'm throwing it together real quick just so I can make some beer! Finished installing the screen panel to the cart and the temp sensors to the m12 cables.

Rig ready to brew beer with control panel tilted out.

Close up of back panel where I installed easy access HDMI and USB connections for RPI.

Made new temperature sensor cables.

That use the new M12 connectors 

Finishing up for Motorama

Bots are about ready for motorama. Let this shit show begin.

Battlebot Finished!

It's finished! Despite the slow speed, motor breaking drivetrain, and oh so weak flipper, the robot is done. Probably going to loose the fight, but it will be fun.

Battlebot Pneumatic Setup

Finally got the regulator in the other day. Tested it with the solenoid and actuating cylinder, everything is working great! Now to figure out how to shove it in the small chassis.

Battlebot Redesign

After going to the NERC competition at the Franklin institute in Philly I discovered my current design might get disqualified for running an unregulated pneumatic setup. So I added a regulator and now I'm over the weight limit. So I redesigned the frame and made everything more compact.

Battlebot Updates

Finalizing the bot design and figuring out if the pneumatic system will really work. However after doing all of this I figured out it would cost around $450 on top of the $50+ I have already spent. Not sure if I'm ready to commit to that. I fear the robot is to fragile and some 10 yr old with a steel spiny disk bot would trash my bot in a matter of minutes.