Hitsink - Antweight combat robot (plastic)

5/12 3 hours we started cading on the 12th cause i saw the channel in the slack and wanted to jump on it

We engaged in a cad session and like had fun we did two versions, not much to say about it we just like watched videos and stuff and then decided to design it, initially we were gonna do a horizontal spinner (V1)

we had some issues with battery and electronic placement, and we werent loving the design all that much so we swtiched to a vertical spinner, the robot is actually pretty different, and i (gabe) dont think that v2 is a direct succesor to v1 as v2 is a totally different robot ngl. mason saw some cool stuff with like a tpu robot i think, he can ammend this if he wants to link it, but he added in a tpu impact absorber on the sides. robot kinda looks like a heatsink now but it (should) hold up

i think we gonna need to prototype a little more like once we have the stuff in our hands, as theres only so much you can do with cad

the wheels are also pretty cool there gonna have lika petg hub for mounting and the actual wheel will be tpu

We are aiming to compete pretty late actually (july-august) but we gonna get a working product out like by early june probably

5/15

we did a lil more work, just general revisions (slide switch slot to fit regulation, checking print settings, making sure like, the robot isnt cooked).

V1 wasnt entirely scrapped we might actually build both, of v2 since most of the parts are actually less expensive to when you buy larger quantity, BS example: 2 n20s: 15 buck, so we could maybe use left over parts and also build V1, but V2 is where the focus is as of now.

Addtionally, i think goals need to be outlined formally so heres the goals - antweight robot - dont look stupid (failed) - be reasonable costs and finish quickly before summer ends as both of us are travelling

also v1 and v2 share the same wheels

5-22 & 5-23 1 hour

added wiring diagram very bad i dont normally do these

(copy pasted from my notes app sorry! thank you though for everything)

august 7th | BUILD DAY!!!

mason went to vietnam so we were out for a long time and getting that momentum and printing was slow, but ill have to crunch

we didnt print the tpu absorber but it should be fine (i hope! but yeah hitsink will make its combat premier with the absorber)

building will be pretty boring since this is basically a kit the way we designed it it just fits together seamlessly, perfect tolerances lol

refer to build guide honestly it goes together EXACTLY how we wrote it out.

note: used gorilla glue instead of epoxy for the wheels

augst 7th the second

i burnt out the esc we thought it said 20 it was actually 2! unfortunate but we improvise, im using the controller boards off of the mg996r servos now (from other projects), we should probably switch to a proper solution but this works okay and should push, alot cooolertoo, idk diamonds and coal or something about pressure idk

this build was great, not much too it though most of the work was in the design (shoutout masons bambu p1 (idk if it was an s or p)) the prints were so dialed in it genuienly felt like shipped in the purest sense like i could sell these parts to someone and they would have a flawless experience

thank you to the highway team this was awesome i cant wait to compete