(July 21, 2011 at 12:05 pm)edk141 Wrote: But if you spent weeks working on a robot isn't it a bit sad if a slightly better robot rapes it?
This is part of the sport, if nothing ever gets damaged it wouldn't be robot combat. You always risk damage in every mechanical sport, whether it is driving cars or battling robots. And I've lost more money in parts for RC helicopters than in 10 years of robot combat. btw, a new robot takes more than a couple of weeks.
(July 21, 2011 at 12:05 pm)edk141 Wrote: Waste of parts as well if it gets smashed up, don't know what you're using exactly ofc but some of the things I can imagine you would have, li-ion batteries, servos etc. are fairly expensive are they not? must be cash down the drain if that stuff all gets wrecked
Not that much. If your robots gets damaged besides the armour pretty much everything can be re-used in another robot or it gets repaired. The biggest costs for us are the motors and the armour. The rest survives pretty much everything, we designed them that way.
Best regards,
Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
