30lb robot bearing blocks

Back to working on the featherweight robot. Making some bearing blocks out of 1/2 in aluminum. These are bolted onto the steel frame.

30lb battlebot frame

Been meaning to work on this for a while. The 30lb robot has been sitting around for a few months untouched. Welded up a frame for it using 1/2" square steel tube. Haven't weighed it yet but should be close to 7 lbs. Next is to buy and mount some bearings for the hammer weapon.

GotYourSix rebuild

After the spring Penn bots competition, camberlife (1lb) and sushi roll cage (150g) robots both came in first. Got your six (3lb) robot drive-train broke down losing out very quickly in the bracket.

Soooo the plan is to rebuild "got your six" with stronger plastic components, titanium back-plate, and the delrin front bumpers. Ready set go

Also going to retire sushi roll cage and come up with my own flyweight design.

Got Your Six's new 3d printed body

Rear view

Another battlebot to the collection

I currently have a antweight (1lb), beatleweight (3lb), 30lb robot in progress, and now.... we have a fleaweight (150g). I found the design on thingverse, link below, and had some spare parts. Walaaa

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1800795

Sadly I cannot make motorama this year, so it will have to wait for combat, not sure where or when.

Sushi Roll Cage - 150g combat robot

Introducing "Camber Life" and updated to "gotyoursix"

After the bot brawl in PA, the 1lb'er sploded and the 3 lb, the one with 6 wheels, was getting pushed around. So without further a due, we now have a new 1 lb "what is camber" or "camber what"(still deciding on the name) and a revised "got your six".

The 1lb is nearly done, just waiting on the titanium for the wedge. Then I'm still mocking up the 3lb with the 3d printer. Oh and of course waiting for more parts in the mail. China is oh so far away...

Sadly motorama is full so I won't be able to test them there :(

Camber Life

Got Your Six

3d printed battlebot update

After a few weeks of fiddling with the 3d printer settings it is now printing decent quality prints. I started reprinting the battlebot parts to reduce weight. I cut the amount of plastic in each part by half. Hopefully it will be enough to fit in the 1lb class.

Now its printing the biggest print I have ever done. 6 in tall squirtle! Which will be used in the contest on pinshape.com

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

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.

Beetleweight battlebot design

Newest project is going to be a beetleweight(3lb) combat robot. Like you see in battlebots but only smaller. Designing everything in 123d designer because its free! As you can see from the pics its a wedge design with a pneumatic flipper, struggling to keep everything under the weight limit right now.