Bar-Bus-i
A joke robot made by a few of the 2022-2023 3lb mentors. There hadn't been a drum spinner in the 3lb program for the past 2 years and we thought it would be really funny to have a literal bus as a weapon so here we are. Not counting the CNC work for the bus the rest of the robot was completed within 3-4 days (albeit spread out across several months).
Bus-i.5 also went by Barbii, the spiritual successor to Barbi, when competing at Robot Battles due to the lack of a Bus.
Contents
Competitions
Robot Battles 71 at Dragon Con
- Results: 1 - 2
- Bracket Style: Single Elimincation
- [Forfeit Win]
- Officially 2 - 2 without ever setting foot in an arena
- KO Loss vs Sharpie
- First ever fight was a loss to an actual FTBB kit
- Randomly turned off after a few hits but still perfectly functional after a power cycle. Best guess is something happened with the switch or a voltage spike occurred due to the lack of capacitors on the weapon esc
- [Forfeit Win]
- Bracket Style: Single Elimincation
State of Franklin Robot Rumble 2023
- Results: 1 - 1
- Bracket Style: Double Elimination
- Bracket Style: Double Elimination
Other Fights
- Results: 0 - 1
- Bracket Style: Individual Fights
- KO Loss vs Anomali
- Honestly worked surprisingly well
- Eventually all motors got mechanically disconnected, drive motor pinions came loose, weapon motor belt fell off
- KO Loss vs Anomali
- Bracket Style: Individual Fights
Version
Bus-i.5
Created by: Jacques Wang and Evan Strakes
Drive Motors | 1806 brushless motors mounted to the worst spur gearboxes you've ever seen |
Drive Motor Controllers | 20a Opto Brushless ESC |
Weapon Motor | Flash Hobby d2826 1400kv |
Weapon Motor Controllers | Turnigy multistar 41a ESC |
Receiver | 2A mini Reciever for Flysky Controller 4Ch |
Remote Control | Flysky FS-i6x 6-10Ch 2.4GHz RC transmitter |
Battery | Turnigy 4s 850mah |
Wheels | FingerTech Wheels (latex coated) |
Design Summary
After donating the only functional bus to Todd as a treat, the weapon was replaced with a bootleg Fingertech beater bar milled out in like a hour and a half and a timing pulley was added to replace the PLA round belt pulley we never actually got to try. That's pretty much it but not having the bus is a drastic enough change that I felt like it warranted a different version name.
Problems
- Weapon
- Belt still a little loose, honestly don't know why it was so wrong from the belt calculators something must have been cut out very poorly
- Drive
- Very laggy for some reason, could be ESCs or the garbage gearboxes
Good aspects
It work
Changes/Improvements
Get a new bus
Gallery
- (whatever images and videos you have)
Notes:
Bussi