Hi! Welcome to the Un Named1 page! Un Named1 is my 55 pound robot! It was built after I abandoned Flincher and the TITANS for money reasons. I got his idea after reading through the Team Hercules site and looked at Hercules 98 and I liked the desgine. Then I noticed that it never got to fight so I wanted to test this desgine out for myself so started making plans.
First I was thinking how am I going to make a CHEAP, light, strong lifter. I went through a LOT of prototypes, first I was using a window wiper motor through a pullie system, but it turned out to be way to fragile! so then I decided to look for a sponcer for my new idea, I needed a 20-1 right angle worm gear box that could handle the torque I needed to put through it. So I looked to one of my old sponcers of gremlin and mini KNOME and asked if they had an extra gear box lying around? thay said YES! and gave it to me! YAA! So I had the gear box, not I needed something to power it, so I got a 9.6v makita drill I have been using over and over again in different robots and welded a bolt into the chuck, then I welded the other end of the bolt to the input shaft on the gear box, well let me just say that when I put 12v to the drill, I couldn't stop the output shaft of the gear box with a pair of VISEGRIPS! I was impressed, then I got a sprocket to fit on the 1/2 output shaft of the gear box and welded a 1.5' by 1/2" spike to it! It looked mean and can lift 70 pounds in 2 seconds at the end of the arm! some Pictures of the assembly below.
Next I made the frame/body out of alluminum diamond plate, in other words I cut out the aurmor pannels from diamond plate then bolted them together with alluminum algle stock. I normally use a steel frame in my heavier robots but I didn't have enough weight in this robot to do that! picture of body below.
Then I was thinking about the drive motors. To save money I just decided to use the 80 RPM power window motors from the (abandond till next year) Flincher and the Titans, I just plumbers taped them down to the base of my bot, and drilled holes through the side aurmor so the axle could go out, then bolted a tire to the axle. Pictures below.
I'm using two 12v 13AH batteries hooked in parralel giving me 12v 26AH for EXTRA long battery life! here is a pic (note they are the grey ones on the right)
I built my own electronic SPEED controlers for this robot to try out a speed controlor desgine I have been kicking around for a while! I don't have picture of them and I'm kinda wanting to keep their desgine secret so you will have to show up to bot bash to see them!
the controler for the lifter arm is just an ON-OFF-BACKWARDS one I made with a servo pushing levers into bolts and stuff like that, it is cheap and effective
Here is a picture of the finished product!
