This website was created and is maintained by Rob Englebright, illustrator,
robot builder,father and polymath
Killer Carrot 1, original and best.
This website was created and is maintained by Rob Englebright, illustrator,
robot builder,father and polymath
Urrgh! don't pick your nose or you could end up like this!
The full lowdown of Team "Dangerous Vegetables"
Glub, glub, it's Keeler Carrot. The world's only giant 5ft swimming carrot.
Diced Carrot 2. 150g's of antweight terror, sculpted in aluminium, with a fearsome flip.
Killer Carrot 2, the TV star of "Robot's Revenge". 100kg's of steel and lexan
Killer Carrot 1, original and best. 50kg's of lurid orange fighting machine.
| Created and maintained since September 2000 by Rob Englebright |
This part of
the site details the build diary, and competitions of Killer Carrot 1. The
most recent entry is shown, and previous entries are listed in the archives.
| 6/4/02- Broken again | |
I
took KC1 to work, to test out whether the relocation of the batteries
made any difference to the steering, which has always been "sensitive",
and indeed it is much more controllable. 
 The weight is now neatly balanced over the front wheels, and there is now very little pendulum effect. The remaining problems stem from the appallingly slack drive chains, the slow servos, and the cheap pots which they drive. I have been promised an experimental control interface from the Dominator team, but it still hasn't turned up.   The second reason for taking to work was to test the flipper. I tested it in the workshops, and knew it wasn't going to be too powerful, as it's only a diddly little 40mm ram. After flipping a dustpan around I tried to get a bit more power out of it by winding up the power from the regulator to 12 bar... Big Mistake, as I blew the ram in 2. Not so much of a problem though now as the new regulations prevent the use of sodastream bottles, so the whole set up is illegal. I am tempted to rip out the insides and fit them into keeler carrot to make a reasonably powerful swimmer for next years Techno Games. Ho hum... |
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| Archived Build Diaries: | |
| 23/3/01 | 13/2/01 |
| 9/2/01 | 13/1/01 |
| 4/1/01 | Sept 2000 |