korel

Beautiful robot, great

Beautiful robot, great pictures. I like the way it moves,great work

pauljd

no doubt, its a beautiful

its a beautiful robot.

its nice to have budget.   are you going to market with this dual laser-canon demon?   or just for your own entry into competitions?

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phozon

wow!!! i would try to build

wow!!! i would try to build this if i had $10,000

tyberius

Thanks. No market intended

Thanks. No market intended for this, it’s just a personal project and my entry for Mech Warfare.

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jax

Ten…

…thousand… dollars? US dollars??? Not mexican pesos from the '90s? Holy. I’m in the wrong business!

That robot is badass, though. Nice work.

pauljd

I remember playing the video

I remember playing the video game Mech Warior 10 years ago.  now your doing it for real.  where do you go for those competitions?  what are some good forums or websites for us to learn more about that?

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GroG

I think its an investment

I think its an investment decision.  Once building the robot for 10K, it will wobble into the nearest local Bank, brandishing its guns and make a large withdrawl.

You inspire me Tyberius, to take a 2nd mortgage on my house.   Nice work.

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tyberius

We host 2 events each year;

We host 2 events each year; one at Robogames (coming up in about a week) in San Fransisco, and the other on the east coast of the US at Shepherd University.

The main website is http://mech-warfare.com but we have a sub-forum on the Trossen forums where we hold our discussions on the competition.

We have 26 teams registered this year, so it should be huge!

tyberius

It’s worth mentioning that I

It’s worth mentioning that I work in the industry, so I paid nowhere near that total retail amount. I’ve also had a few sponsors on the project.

kc1491

Gumstix Question?

Very nice robot Tyberius. I have a couple questions about the gumstix controller you said you are using. I am also using a couple gumstixs to control my ground and ariel robots and was wondering what you used to interface with the servos. I am currently using a robostix and wanted to know if you are doing the same. Secondly did you write you own custom code for the gumstix and if so what language did you use. Thanks in advance, and its nice to see someone else using the gumstix controller here on LMR.

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