Battlebots Animation

An animation of a battlebot from Olathe Northwest High School. This is Spatha, a flipper bot. It was created in SolidWorks, a CAD program, using accurate 3D modeling.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• battlebot
• robot
• build
• olathe
• northwest
• flipper
• bot
• Solidworks
• CAD
• computer
• aided
• design
• robotwars
• 3d
• animation
• botsiq

[layes64Nova]

That kind looks a lot like Ziggy.He has the same flipper design it seems like u copied his design.

[ONWBattlebots]

@layes64Nova That is correct, the design of the weapon is similar to the 340 lb. bot named Ziggy. This pneumatic flipper design is comprised of a simple mechanical arrangement known as a four-bar-linkage system. A bot that more closely resembles the overall design of Spatha is one that is called Botfly. This also is a 120 lb. bot which competed a few years ago in the Robogames competition.

[aborchardt09]

Too bad it doesnt look this good in real life! lol

[ONWBattlebots]

We got the weapon cut by a water-jet so it was actually made strait from the 2d drawing. After four matches at competition, our battlebot came out of it without a scratch.

[leorcc]

It looks well thought out. I see someone mentioned it before but I will add: I think you would be struggling with gas with a tank that small. If you use CO2 you will get some more flips, but you will need a buffer tank to fully utilize its flipping potential in either case.

I like the design, I hope to see it in real life some day.

[solidworksjunky]

nice job now have you build it yet,if you did build it you should post it on youtube for people to see the end result.

[wazio88]

Have you built this?

[TheCrusaderBot]

WOW! very nice! i am using a free program...it looks nothing like this

good job! 5*'s man

[Marco2242K]

Its a nice animation and good cad.

Cant see any visable batterys.

Also you probably would want a bigger gas tank and also a buffer tank.