D-MONIC GALLERY
D-Monic 2 flew together very quickly (my dad and I pulled an all nighter to have the bot ready to bring to SWARC, unfortunatly the batteries were dead and I had to buy new ones)
Here's the new guts of D. Very similar to the last version but the new motors/lack of huge wheels and axel saved a lot of room and space (not to mention headaches). The mounts I was originally using for the motors (a peice of aluminum angel iron over the motor) were ripped out my the motor's power during testing. These later became the mount for my relay and solenoid.
Here's my new Hella switch from Team Delta and my ball casters from Bot Parts.com. Unfortunatly my CCW EV Warriors arrived later and without their power cabels. The EV in the above picture is from MECI. Casey bought 6 CW EV's for his bot, but was worried about timing the ones he was using for drive. Since I needed a CW EV and a CCW EV for my weapon I offered to buy 2 CCW's and keep one and trade him a CCW for a CW so his drive would be timed and my weapon wouldn't wig out.
My White Rodgers Solenoid. The same one sold on Team Delta's website for about $60, I picked this up locally at Tanner Electronics (who are huge sponsors of robotics in the Dallas/Fort Worth area) for $13.
The ball casters installed. These are a huge difference compared to swivel casters.
Here I am working on the beast in the shop at school. Mr. Rice is very cool, letting Casey and I work on our bots in the shop, test them on the back loading dock, and giving us free metal for D-Monic and Mean Green Fightin' Machine. In this picture im testing out the new motors at 12 volts. About 3 seconds after this picture was taken the bot attempted to jump off the table and drag me with it.
Here's Casey's small Lego bot. This thing got some funny looks as it went down the halls at school. The really funny part was when people gave it about 12 feet of space, looking scared that the 2 pound bot might hit them.
Here's a pic of D-Monic right before a test drive. Everyone in the shop was dying to see the bot run, so we used the original wireing, which caused the IFI and the Victors to sit on top of the arm slot.
After the aluminum motor mounts broke, we used C clamps to hold the motors down temporarily. The kind of worked.
Those new NPC's make the bot fly. We did a spin test at 24 volts in the shop one day. We had to stop because the C clamps made the bot unbalanced and it started to do a Mauler Dance. With $1000 worth of electronics sitting on top of the bot and us 7 feet away, this would have been a very bad thing.
These are the mounts for the flywheel. They're just some threaded shafts covered in square steel tubing with a pillow block sitting on top. Hopefully they'll hold up.
D-Monic meets Casey's bot, Mean Green Fightin' Machine. Hopefully these 2 will never have to fight, because they would probably both be destroyed.
D-Monic as a spinner? the shell doesn't quite fit, but you can definetly get a feel for the size of MGFM.
Here's Casy riddng the bot as two people from our shop watch in hopes that he kills himself. Isn't that nice?
Clambot! The armor doesn't quite fit just yet, but its about 600 times stronger than the old armor (which makes great Antweight armor!)
