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ArcticMyst Security by Avery
My other hobby: Combat Robotics
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thats awesome man. I use to watch that show a few years back.
Do the magnets really help at all?
I can see where the idea makes sense. But wouldn't that just slow the robot down?
where extra weight would definitely help, i keep thinking this is somehow different than weight. Like all it's doing is pushing the robot down, and isn't going to add any force when ramming an enemy bot.
I guess unless your just making sure your ramps stay flat on the ground to ensure your enemy goes right into the wheel?
Do the magnets really help at all?
I can see where the idea makes sense. But wouldn't that just slow the robot down?
where extra weight would definitely help, i keep thinking this is somehow different than weight. Like all it's doing is pushing the robot down, and isn't going to add any force when ramming an enemy bot.
I guess unless your just making sure your ramps stay flat on the ground to ensure your enemy goes right into the wheel?
Oh magnets help a ton. The drive train is way over powered the biggest point of the magnet is to gain traction being that the wheels are towards the rear there is less weight on them. With out the magnets the tires slip all over the place with the magnets it can easily push around other robots.
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Heh... I did two years of something similar in high school, except we just had Lego Mindstorms to do it, and it wasn't as much fighting as doing challenges. Being the programmer in our group, I remember one really late night trying to debug an edge following program... I did it though. 
Awesome flips there. How high are the walls in those "cages"? Has a robot ever gone over them?
Awesome flips there. How high are the walls in those "cages"? Has a robot ever gone over them?
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I liked the showboating at the end of the Plum HS vs Montour HS tube.
I liked the showboating at the end of the Plum HS vs Montour HS tube.
jedirock
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You, sir, are insane. Congratulations on mutilating the arena. :beer:
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My brother and I used to build these out of VEX components - like Lego mindstorms only with actually metal parts and more powerful motors I always wanted to build an actual battlebot but never got the funds... I guess it's lasers instead
I always wanted to build an actual battlebot but never got the funds... I guess it's lasers instead
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Is the large purple motor that drives your rotary weapon brushless?
Yes it is. It is a brushless inrunner usually used on rc boats.
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Your design is SCARY fast.
I'm a huge fan of battlebot style competition. However, they're still mainly "weaponized RC cars" for the most part.
I want to see them fight autonomously using their own vision/sensor systems and navigational logic etc.
Although that might just be scary-bad for humanity. It's the one thing most sci-fi or the Terminator franchise in particular never got. If such a "war" were to really happen, the flying UAV's were about right, but the ground forces would probably be spider/crab bots that ran at 100mph, did ninja/Jackie Chan jumps off the walls like a Parkour champion hopped up on meth, and never trip, falter, or make a mistake.
Oh, and they'd be disposable, probably just have a chunk of C4 in them and they'd jump for the base of your neck, swarm-bot coordinated and organized over a mesh network.
I'm a huge fan of battlebot style competition. However, they're still mainly "weaponized RC cars" for the most part.
I want to see them fight autonomously using their own vision/sensor systems and navigational logic etc.
Although that might just be scary-bad for humanity. It's the one thing most sci-fi or the Terminator franchise in particular never got. If such a "war" were to really happen, the flying UAV's were about right, but the ground forces would probably be spider/crab bots that ran at 100mph, did ninja/Jackie Chan jumps off the walls like a Parkour champion hopped up on meth, and never trip, falter, or make a mistake.
Oh, and they'd be disposable, probably just have a chunk of C4 in them and they'd jump for the base of your neck, swarm-bot coordinated and organized over a mesh network.
