Devlog 6: Parking Mech Pt2, Rubber bands, and more!
Hey guys, this is a decently lengthy devlog, so lets get into it!
Parking Mech
My parking mech is done!
My main problem, as you saw in the last devlog is that I only had around 20 degrees of room to deploy my bellypan cause I was hitting a bar, what was my solution?
Getting rid of the bar.
In all seriousness, I put out a small hole in the bar that way, the arm that connects my motor and bellypan can move through.
Now, we can lay all the way flat, but there is still a large footprint, as anything that touches the ground adds to my footprint. So I added a small bar that should hopefully work to reduce my footprint (anything that touches the ground)
Rubber bands
Following advice from my last ship, I realized it was important for people to actually know where rubber bands were. Or atleast some what to understand. For now, I have added rubber bands, but I might end up making them a bit less opaque as its hard to see inside right now.
Random other changes
Removed that random spur gear on the back of Shooter, thats useless
Added a light bar to the back of bot and an LED to the shooter.
Future plans
- Odometry pods, this would be amazing
- Adjustable hood shooter, right now I can only adjust RPM, which takes time and is expensive on power, which I know all to well can kill matches. An adjustable hood would save so much power.
Quite a long post, but hopefully ship #2 soon!
Thanks!
PS: On image one, top is old, bottom is new.
Comments 2
Greetings and Salutations Monsieur Atyam. It is of my pleasure to view this design. After careful review, it is apparent and obvious to me that this is not just a robot, this is a master piece. It’s not just awe-inspiring, it is inspirational and worthy of earning 60 advancement points in First Tech Challenge competitions. Your study into the engineering subdisciplines of design, motivation, and hard work have encouraged me to tread the same path that you did when you once designed this robot. I’m eager to see your future work, Mamba out.
thank you my glorious king @NotNot. i appreciate the kind words that you have bestowed upon thee. I am enchanted that you find my work so awe inspiring.
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