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Follow the combined efforts of the Curhans and Eddie Burgess as they prepare for BATTLEBOTS 2010!
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After three years of involvement in Battlebots, and a national high school victory under our belts, we decided that it was time to go pro. With a student at the University of South Florida, another at Carnegie Mellon University, and a professional engineer in industry combining their knowledge and understanding of all things mechanical and electrical, the team is set to do well. If you would like to support our efforts, please send us an email at dancurhan@gmail.com and let us know that you are interested. There are many ways of supporting us!

Saturday, May 30, 2009

weapon motors & ESCs

My shipment of three Feigao 1308430s motors and two Castle Thunderbird-18 ESCs came in yesterday! The motors are SO SMALL! I still can't quite wrap my mind around just how small these 1 lb bots really are. The motors have a 3120Kv so with a 2S lipo (7.4V) they should run over 20,000 RPM. The weapon pulley is a 2:1 ratio, so the final weapon speed should be near 10,000 RPM. On Monday I'll be heading to Alro to buy metal, and Robot Marketplace to buy more components. I'm getting excited already!

Dan
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