Team Serket robotics

Learn about Short Serket

This is Short Serket. This bot has been through four versions, and in the most recent version uses machine learning
to determine it’s orientation and can counter balance itself and prevent itself from flipping across the arena. If
it finds itself upside down, it will self-right automatically. Short Serket is a hammer-saw, meaning it has
a saw blade attached to a moving arm. Short Serket took a whole year to finish, and has been through
four main versions, and 6 small change versions. Short Serkets arm is powered by a metal gear SunFounder
servo, while the blade is powered by a READYTOSKY RS 2205 weapon motor. Each Short Serket has used an
off-the-shelf-saw blade. We even laser engraved some of the blades with Serket’s logo.

Short Serket logos

This logo was when the youtube channel was started, and was for v3.

When we changed the name from Serket to Short Serket, this became the logo, and was used throughout the rest of Short Serket v3’s life.

This logo was for a cancelled robot, Deathstalker, and was the first robot we made with four wheel drive from only two motors.

This is the current design, and has went for a different theme, where rather than being yellow, it went for black and gray. The red eyes in the skull represent the red LEDs in the robot, which the yellow LEDs turn off during its attack.

Short Serket versions

This is where it all started, version one. This robot had tpu walls with a four wheel drive, and had foam wheels directly attached to the motors. Serket had its arm a direct attach to a servo, rather than how we did later on. None of the parts were final, so its all orange.
weight class: 454 grams

This was where we started to step away from 3d printing every part. This robot had cutting board walls, polycarb tops and bottom, and tpu forks. Serket v2 was also our fist to add silicone to its foam wheels. However, we did not add an arm to this design.
weight class: 454 grams

This is version three, the first of many things for us. for example it was the first with 3d printed wheels with silicone on them, first to have LEDs, and the first to be finished. This version was also the first robot we made to have carbon fiber tops. It was scapped after we were not able to add forks, or armor, leading to it’s redesign.

weight class:454 grams

This is the fourth version of Short Serket, the first to actually compete. Our four wheel drive was born from our test bot, Deathstalker. Short Serket v4 is capable of using many types of blades, such as our 72 tooth blade, our toothless blade, and our 80 tooth blade. This robot can automatically self right without human requirement, giving us another button for a different way of attacking.

weight class: 454 grams