About three years ago we have decided to construct battle robot, as a result we have our “firstborn”. Operator can see through its eyes. Full presence effect. The camera placed right above cannon barrel. Operators glasses equipped with gyroscopes. I can control cannon aiming (up-down movement) and how robot moves (turns to the left and to the right) with light moves of my head. Other controls are accelerator and break pedals and fire button.
Rate of fire is about 600 shots per minute. Ammunition - 4000 plastic balls. Fully charged battery provides about 8 hours of robot movement. The main goal of the project was opening of “Fighting Robots Club”.
The idea of using painballs was discarded due to a public status of our club: it will take a lot of time for personnel to clean game zone and robots from paint. So we use airsoft pellets. Another reason to not use paintball equipment is its rather big dimensions.
Controller, which we designed, responsible for movement and fire control. It also controls bullets feeder. The hull is also our design. First modelled in 3D software it became real . We are using a laser cutting system to produce parts of hull from polycarbonate and ABS (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene). http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6269/img0863small.jpg
Right now we have just 5 vehicles, but the model designed for mass production. We still testing if it can survive. Design is ours from beginning of development and to the final steps of production. And about crowds of people… Well, right now people have no idea what a cool things we do )
How many of these robots did / do you make? They look like they could be production. Is it your design? The setup looks professional too, but where are the crowds?
The apporach you are taking is very much like a real-life mech warrior scenario, which would be fun for anyone who is technically inclined. One thing I have seen is that the speed of motion is far too fast for that scale, and there is not enough evidence of destruction or having the robot stop if shot at.
. The other two are short presentation of our club.
