Team BYTE - robotics

Team BYTE - robotics We are a combat robotics team from Surrey. With robots
TERABYTE - Feather
XCELERATOR - Feather
BYTE - Beetle
NIBBLE - Ant

05/02/2024

BYTE has finally been finished off. After a few electrical gremlins had been evicted, it seems to have a bit of power. I'm hoping to post an update soon with the massive disc attached.

Something new is on the horizon.
04/12/2023

Something new is on the horizon.


Introducing BYTE v1.1 this is my first forey into Beetleweights, its currantly in its sportsman config, minus the forks ...
29/09/2023

Introducing BYTE v1.1 this is my first forey into Beetleweights, its currantly in its sportsman config, minus the forks and weapon motor, this is part of a wider plan to give TERABYTE a mini bot which I'm hoping I can test at BEVS next year. It can also accept a huge spinner, but this is coming sometime early next year. As a hammer, it has a tip speed of around 170 mph, which should give it plenty of punch with a 750w motor. As a spinner, it will have a tip speed of 248 mph, which gives it a huge amount of kinetic energy.

More updates to come.

From CAD to partly finished articleTERABYTE has always had a problemwith getting its full flipper power into theopponent...
16/08/2023

From CAD to partly finished article

TERABYTE has always had a problem
with getting its full flipper power into the
opponent. To fix this, I have implemented
an Eruption/Tectonic style ground
scraper made out of Hardox 450. I do
have to admit, though, it is starting to
look a bit too like Tectonic. Oh well, this
upgrade was mainly to counter Tectonics owner :)

(You didn't see the crap weld. You were
imagining it)| was trying not to overheat
the Hardox. So it's just loads of little
tacks that have been done over half an hour. If anyone has any tips to welding Hardox, please drop them in the comments.

This is NIBBLE, an entirely 3D printed antweight testing platform. It is equipped with a direct drive spinner that is pr...
24/03/2023

This is NIBBLE, an entirely 3D printed antweight testing platform. It is equipped with a direct drive spinner that is printed out of PETG, which I have found to be sufficiently strong enough to withstand some really nasty hits without shattering. In fact, it is the same filament that many parts of TERABYTE are made from. The disc geometry is a scaled down version of a weapon for a featherweight, which was designed with moment of inertia in mind to allow for some huge hits.

The chassis is printed out of PLA+, which is strong enough for testing, but it will be printed out of nylon when it is ready for fighting properly. Overall, it weighs in at around 180g, which is still overweight, so the chassis will have to be shrunk to get it under the weight limit. But it works for fighting at college.

Introducing TERABYE V1.1!Over the winter, TERABYTE has been getting some upgrades. Some of the upgrades include • Revise...
04/02/2023

Introducing TERABYE V1.1!

Over the winter, TERABYTE has been getting some upgrades. Some of the upgrades include

• Revised motor mounts that can withstand 400kg(still 3D printed) thanks to some helpful stress analysis and lots of PETG

• Rerouted hoses to help with positioning, this ended up helping with flow rate, and to much of my surprise, it resulted in much higher flipper power.(the increased flow rate also helps with a lessened loss of flipper power when rappidly firing the weapon)

• Revised bungiees(from poundland)

Overall, this has led to a much more solid feeling bot with virtually no money spent directly(£1). Compared to when you could blow on it and it would fall apart.

19/10/2022

Test footage of TERABYTE after being destroyed in its first test during the first Robots Live featherweight rumble at Crawley after being bullied by the house robot for most of the fight due to being flipped over and not being able to self right because of a massive gas leak. (caused by me not screwing the bottle on tight enough) it was rolled onto its back which ultimately lead to it being put on the floor flipper and launched 15 foot in the air, crashing down on its weakest corner causing the roof and inner bulkhead to split away from the back pannel(probably becuase this robot was my first welding project and the welds were rubbish) while causing the impact area to buckle and pinch the wheel. But after running home and doing angle grinding and some welding at 11 at night (sorry neighbours) and subsequently at 7 the next morning (again sorry neighbours) we managed to get it up and running with 2 minutes to spare before we had to leave for the show. Not how the weekend was meant to go but there we are, that's what you get for not preparing and testing your new robot

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