 In
early 2002, a competition was launched
in a magazine called Real Robots called
Rex's Robot Challenge where they helped
by showing you week by week how to build
a 12kg feather weight with limited
rules.
Mr Stu
started to build a robot out of wood
called KatNip with the idea of having
crushing claws when he was donated a
linear actuator by Alan Wood. After the
fully working wooden version was
finished, with the help of Alan Gribble,
we turned KatNip into a metal crushing
machine.
The
machine has changed slightly over the
years and now has 24v Gold Motors in
place of the old window screen wiper
motors, which now gives the robot a real
kick of acceleration and more speed.
The
batteries have now been upgraded to
2400Mah Sub C Sanyo RC Cells to give
that extra current needed when crushing
the other robots, though with machines
these days with thick polycarbonate
armour and hardox metal, all we can is
grab.
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Tech Stats |
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Motors : |
2 x 24v
150watts Gold Motors |
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Batteries : |
2 x 12v
2400Mah NiCad Power Packs in
series to give 24v. |
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Speed : |
10 Mph |
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Weapon : |
Linear
Actuator powered crushing claws.
Around 100kg of force. |
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Armour : |
Mixture of
3mm alum, 5mm alum and 6mm alum
and 5mm polycarb. |
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Speedo : |
Modified
RRC Speedo to handle more
current. |
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Weight : |
11.7kg |
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