Hexxus beetleweight in progress

katastic

its looking pretty sweet

thanks it's been alot of fun so far.

as of tonight its 90% finished all thats left to do is shorten some wires add some carbon to hold the wires in and its ready for combat

i made some clamp style motor mounts out of 1/2" polycarb and added some aluminum washers to the foam wheels for some stability

so far I tested it at 1/4 throtle and was blowing through my 1/4" 6061 aluminum scraps and threw my 2lb block of aluminum about 30 feet away violently then I caught a little gyro action and started chipping pieces out of my driveway and thats when I stopped hitting stuff lol I did spin it up all the way and its perfectly balanced and freaking loud it

and a handle of capt morgan for scale

kill the bottle! can't wait to watch it lol and there's laundry baskets in the pic too

completly finished it today lights master switch and all. hooray!


heres some pics.

"armor" carbon panels on and dual aluminum washers on each wheel for stability




all the electronics fit with enough room for shock foam on all sides

note: zip ties are not motor mounts a first for me




lights on ready to put a wrecking on something, or get wrecked lol

what's the total weight? maybe you could add even more lights?

i have no idea yesturday when i weighed all of my components and such was at 46.5oz and i put more holes in it today so im prolly about 2 oz underweight

looks great, very awesome midcutter

did some 1/4 throttle testing today with dan heres some video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWQtcbk0-B4&feature=channel_video_title

lol, you can always use it as a remote-controlled weed-whacker XD

Camden W wrote:

lol, you can always use it as a remote-controlled weed-whacker XD

lol it pretty much is at this point.

Are you under weight, sir?

Dan Curhan wrote:

Are you under weight, sir?

lol about that.... tonight i will be, ARE YOUUUU UNDERWEIGHT!?!?!?!

Evan Steeves wrote:

Dan Curhan wrote:

Are you under weight, sir?

lol about that.... tonight i will be, ARE YOUUUU UNDERWEIGHT!?!?!?!

Now after some milling it weighs 2pounds 15oz

eep! you could have at least made the whole piece a uniform thickness not only to look better, but provide fewer possible points that an enemy could grab to throw your bot.
Other than that, it looks "great"

Is the tiny hole in the back for a reset button?

Camden W wrote:

eep! you could have at least made the whole piece a uniform thickness not only to look better, but provide fewer possible points that an enemy could grab to throw your bot.
Other than that, it looks "great"

Is the tiny hole in the back for a reset button?

lol I could have made the thing have the same finish and measured and cut to one thousandth on that mill but I didnt have time for make it pretty and geometerically sound I had time to take it out of the clamp twice and weigh it this all took 2.5 hours, to make it perfect and such would have taken 5 hours with that tiny end mill

and the things on the bottom are just for some unsymmetrical coolness I could have milled them off.

The holes were one of the first things put into the bottom they were my first try to lose weight before I got on the mill.

SOOO today it fought!.... and came dead last just like my last beetleweight.

First fight I fought busted nuts robotics voodoo magic a mean verticle disc spinner with a 4140 disk at 20k or something fast. the night before I went over all the robots and this one I wanted to fight the least of them all because I know mike is a badass driver from seeing his previous fights on youtube.

well... we both spun up and he was already in my face by the time
I was at half throttle when we first hit, BOOM shower of gold and white sparks from the
steel disc meeting my titanium bar it dulled his tooth and my bar dug halfway into his disc
and I got thrown into the wall. by 30 seconds into the match I was up against the wall
getting outmenuvered by voodoo magic and he got a good line up and ripped through my
rear carbon panel somehow not getting any of my wires lol we hit a few more times and he nearly took my wheels off but my soft foam and soft aluminum washers took the shock.
I could tell he was doing his best to not let me get spun up for obvious reasons well we hit a few more times without me getting to speed and he continued to outdrive me and pushed me into the drop out.

fight number two was from ram robotics, a pusher robot hephastus. I think that was how it was spelled?

Starting the match I for some unknown reason could not make my left side drive motor work so I put it in the arena with only one working wheel. Well i got spun up this time and made shure to nearly hit full throttle It was taking at least 5 seconds to ease into throttle to not get all torqued around by the weapon motor.
First hit I was nearly full throttle and hit her square on the wheel taking it the hub off second hit removed another wheel then I got pushed into the wall and nearly went through the lexan panel trying to not break it i slowed down and it was a pushing match and went to a judged decision of me lose.

during the rumble I put the wrecking on 3 bots at once

I wanna see the rumble

Camden W wrote:

eep! you could have at least made the whole piece a uniform thickness not only to look better, but provide fewer possible points that an enemy could grab to throw your bot.
Other than that, it looks "great"

Is the tiny hole in the back for a reset button?

Actually leaving a skin like that keeps it pretty strong.

so anyone have some event video?

Koolaid64 wrote:

so anyone have some event video?

soon hopefully andrea will put up the vids !

will ripto be ready for botblast?

since theres no video ill offer the only picture my dad took lol




this was my second fight, against liz's hephaestus its me getting pushed into the wall while tearing off the wheels of hephaestus.

Kinda unrelated but, are there a lot of 3lb bots with exposed wheels? Cuz it seems that way to me.

Do the little bots just not typically hit hard enough for that to matter, or is there just not enough weight in a 3lber to expend on armoring over the wheels?

Oh, and back on topic--that is one great looking bot! Nice work. Did the belt hold up OK (even letting up from full throttle?

rdubard wrote:

Oh, and back on topic--that is one great looking bot! Nice work. Did the belt hold up OK (even letting up from full throttle?

thanks mr dubard

Its hard to say about the exposed wheels it really depends on the type of bot it is I supose, some designs can get away with it such as mine using super soft wheels that dont distribute shock loads to the gearmotors then there are the verticle spinners that typically use wheel guards because they have weight and or room to include it into the frame.

the belt broke every fight because i had no pulley rings on my motor can. in testing the belt would last about 20 minutes of use before it was worn too much, for combat the shock loads really beat the belt up and with some polycarb rings I glued on the motor can this morning I was able to fight a piece of concrete for a solid 5 minutes without any noticeable wear on the belt.

Also today after a fresh balance job on the bar and a full charge on the battery I tached the bar at 12.5thousand rpm!!!! that gives me a calculated 1400 foot pounds of energy!!!

and since I had a half oz to spare I switched my back armor from carbon fiber to stainless steel and still had weight for my signature hot pink and yellow paintjob, my robots all eventually end up painted this scheme.