Two things, One, you should put another one of the green support moray jaws so if you land a big hit, the motor does not go flying off. Two, That new battery location might lead to the enemy hitting next to the blade, and you battery exploding, same with your receiver; To fix that, you should put them more into the empty space, instead of putting it against the wall. (Hope this helps! 😊)
Thank you for the great advice. The new version which should be ready soon has a two much smaller spinners that I can swap out and an upright that has more support, so hopefully that should fix some of the issues. I also might end up going with a belt driven spinner later on. I'm glad you mentioned the battery and receiver placement because I wasn't thinking too much about that, but I have some attachments planned and some foam to cushion them.
@@Morayrobotics23 Thank you for taking that into consideration, I wish you the best of luck while competing, I’m making a bot myself, just finished printed v1.
this is awesome! the best advice I ever got, is that the weapon system needs to be rigid. the steel upright seems fine, but if you could have it wrap around and support the other side, it will be much stronger and reliable (like a U shape). Also if you want to reduce weight, take it out of the lid! Great designing and creativity!
there are a ton of little changes that could make this robot absolutely killer. with a weapon that big you will probably need to support it from both sides or make your upright a lot stronger. keep in mind that if you switch to aluminum it is going to be a lot less elastic than steel, so every time you have to bend the aluminum back its going to lose a lot more strength than a steel upright would. another thing to keep in mind is that if you bolt down your polycarb cover at the front edges as well as the back, the chassis will gain a ton of rigidity. making your fork mounting replaceable instead of printed into your chassis would allow you to just change it out instead of trying to weld TPU back together or replace the entire chassis because you cant run forks.
These are some really good suggestions and I've thought about some of these before. The new chassis arrived and I did include mounting points to be able to detach the fork mounts for easier repair and modularity. Also it ended up being much lighter than I thought so I might be able to keep a steel upright and I have plans for a belt driven spinner for future versions. I didn't think much about the added strength of top plate mounting points on the top, but I might be able to make that happen with this new version.
I thought about that while coming up with the design, but I decided to try it out anyway. If it ends up being an issue (which there's a good chance it will) I'll redesign it for a belt driven spinner.
@@Morayrobotics23 you should try putting a tpu buffer between the motor and the weapon so that the motor isn’t as shocked. I don’t really know how to explain this over text though but I’ll be at rabid so I’ll explain it there
Two things,
One, you should put another one of the green support moray jaws so if you land a big hit, the motor does not go flying off.
Two, That new battery location might lead to the enemy hitting next to the blade, and you battery exploding, same with your receiver; To fix that, you should put them more into the empty space, instead of putting it against the wall.
(Hope this helps! 😊)
Thank you for the great advice. The new version which should be ready soon has a two much smaller spinners that I can swap out and an upright that has more support, so hopefully that should fix some of the issues. I also might end up going with a belt driven spinner later on. I'm glad you mentioned the battery and receiver placement because I wasn't thinking too much about that, but I have some attachments planned and some foam to cushion them.
@@Morayrobotics23 Thank you for taking that into consideration, I wish you the best of luck while competing, I’m making a bot myself, just finished printed v1.
@@ThatColdSketch Awesome. I hope your bot turns out well.
@@Morayrobotics23 Same to you!
That is honestly really cool! Moray works great! Cant wait for the competition videos!
Cool robot and nice editing.
this is awesome!
the best advice I ever got, is that the weapon system needs to be rigid. the steel upright seems fine, but if you could have it wrap around and support the other side, it will be much stronger and reliable (like a U shape).
Also if you want to reduce weight, take it out of the lid! Great designing and creativity!
there are a ton of little changes that could make this robot absolutely killer. with a weapon that big you will probably need to support it from both sides or make your upright a lot stronger. keep in mind that if you switch to aluminum it is going to be a lot less elastic than steel, so every time you have to bend the aluminum back its going to lose a lot more strength than a steel upright would.
another thing to keep in mind is that if you bolt down your polycarb cover at the front edges as well as the back, the chassis will gain a ton of rigidity. making your fork mounting replaceable instead of printed into your chassis would allow you to just change it out instead of trying to weld TPU back together or replace the entire chassis because you cant run forks.
These are some really good suggestions and I've thought about some of these before. The new chassis arrived and I did include mounting points to be able to detach the fork mounts for easier repair and modularity. Also it ended up being much lighter than I thought so I might be able to keep a steel upright and I have plans for a belt driven spinner for future versions. I didn't think much about the added strength of top plate mounting points on the top, but I might be able to make that happen with this new version.
This is a great robot design but the only thing I think might be a problem is that it could pull an aftershock an majorly damaged the motor
I thought about that while coming up with the design, but I decided to try it out anyway. If it ends up being an issue (which there's a good chance it will) I'll redesign it for a belt driven spinner.
@@Morayrobotics23 you should try putting a tpu buffer between the motor and the weapon so that the motor isn’t as shocked. I don’t really know how to explain this over text though but I’ll be at rabid so I’ll explain it there
@@nick-team-kinetic-energy That's a great idea. I considered for the version competing at RABID but I didn't have time.