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Terror Turtle

Lewes, Sussex

Technical specification
Location Lewes, Sussex
Weapon Spinner/Clusterbot
Weight 86 / 21.5 kg
Defence Terror Turtle – 4mm of fibreglass (top), 2mm aluminium (front sides), 4mm steel box; The Hatchling – 3mm of mild steel throughout
Top Speed 5 / 20 mph
Drive System Terror Turtle – heavy-duty wheelchair gearboxes and motors; The Hatchling – industrial electric drills
Power Electric
Battery Terror Turtle – nickel-metal hybrid battery for drive (28.8 volts), lithium polymer battery for weapon (25.9); The Hatchling – nickel-metal hybrid battery (28.8 volts)
Biggest Weakness The team are worried about their thin armour, which is vulnerable to spinners.

Terror Turtle is a clusterbot (two individual robots,) which consists of the main robot, Terror Turtle, and its smaller robot, The Hatchling. The main robot, Terror Turtle, has a high velocity 9kg spinner mounted on the front, which can reach 3000rpm, and  the smaller robot, The Hatchling, is designed to cause a nuisance of itself by ramming into other robots – diverting and distracting their opponents (but doesn’t have a weapon of its own). Team Terror Turtle have designed the structure of this robot to be built around a wooden frame – the team feel that wood, instead of metal, will be better for its ability not to transmit shock to its interior workings.

Team stats

John Frizell 68
Team role:

Captain, Driver and Chief Designer

Occupation:

Environmental Campaigner

Jonathan Swan 62
Team role:

Co-Driver, Second Robot Aesthetics and Problem Solving

Occupation:

Jeweller

Jme Anderson 26
Team role:

Co-Driver, Second Robot computers and Problem Solving

Occupation:

Apprentice Jeweller

Charles Hoile 22
Team role:

Engineer / Mechanic

Occupation:

Student studying Engineering

What makes Terror Turtle unique...

Captain, John, was Head of Greenpeace for six years in the 80s, and his love for animals and robots has inspired him to build a robotic turtle.