It all began with this. An Idea. Eventually, it became aparent that 3 legs would take up a bit too much weight, so I would build it with one and rebuild it later with 3.
The build begins with the diassembling of High Sticking
Next Up, I had to gather up all the parts!
Here are the legs and servos.
Here is the reciever and possible reciever battery.
Considered spinner motor (not going to be used anymore)
The ESC I just purchaed! handles 30 amps continuous in one direction. KICK ASS!
Here are the servos mounted to the base.
Lots of work was done here. The Reciever has been mounted and the motor mounted! Its almost done. All thats left is the blade the armour and the batteries and the wiring and... ok not almost done but It's getting closer!
Wow, this thing is coming together! I got the armour on and im going out to purchase the ESC and batteries tommorow!(updated the 22nd of february)
I Spun up rebound with it's blade and nailed the bbtoy launching it 20 feet across the room. At that point I stopped testing due to safey reasons. here you can see the gear box was completely dismantled.
I got a picture of the bad boy with his blade (thanks to Dalton O'connor for making it). I mounted it like this: Piece of lexan bolted to blade. piece of lexan formed around gear on motor. I couldnt get it off for the life of me. Here it is posing next to its armour and a bbty wheel for scale.
All that I've done here is coloured the blade with my magic markers and put the armour back on. Also, Ive put on longeer bolts to avoid it being thrown off and hitting me in the face....not that thats happened...no never... Anyways, soon as the N500AR battery cells arrive rebound will be fully operational! YAY!
I finnaly figured out what speed Rebounds blade spins at... A WOPPING 6600 RPM!!!! WOWSA!!!!!
In this picture you can see the damage Rebound's blade can do. All this damage (top cover popped up, ripped open gearbox) in 1 HIT!!
However, in that one hit I er risked my life and sotpped testing. In This picture you can see the piece of the gearbox lodged in my safety goggles. It skinned my temple leaving a nasty scratch. If it hadn't been there, I might have been seriously injured. This is proof that buildign and operating robots is dangerous and should only be tested in safe areas.
Stay tuned for updates!