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28 SERVO 11.2012
BUILD REPORT:
Algos: Who Needs MOI When You’ve
Got Angular Velocity?
● by Michael Jeffries
After competing for a year with a two-wheel drive
wedge named Kobalos, I decided
to retire that robot and move on
to something with an active
weapon. During the initial
concept stage of Algos, I decided
on a few key design elements
that had to be present. First, I
wanted to build Algos primarily
out of titanium. Second, I wanted
to try my hand at designing an
effective single tooth weapon.
Third, I wanted to have a
secondary attack method should
the weapon fail. After sketching
several concepts, I settled on a
two-wheel drive robot with a
wedged front and a high rpm
small diameter spinning disk.
FIGURE 1.
A render of
Algos as built.
