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Spinnerproof

Sam Hutchins and Ryan Bratley

9: The Robotiest Robot

1 hour 30 minutes Posted Sep 17, 2017 at 12:00 am.

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Followup
- r/Battlebots AMA list
- Two-Headed Death Flamingo
  - #MorePinkRobots
- BroncoGangers? DoppleBronco?

Robots part 1
- Mohawk
  - NO PYRO, NO PARTY
  - It’s not Razer
  - The beak tip design
  - Fights: vs Biteforce
- ~~Biteforce~~ Biteforce
  - Show Ryan the biting!
  - Basically their rejected 2015 design
  - S T A T I S T I C S
  - Fights: vs Mohawk, vs Ringmaster, vs Chomp (USA only)
- Ultimo Destructo
  - Multiple setups:
  - Fights: vs Ringmaster
- The Ringmaster
  - Omnidirectional Vector Drive
    - There is no Facebook video. Ryan accidentally made that up.
    - Which way is forwards? Is there a forwards?
  - Machining porn
  - Weapon noise
  - Fights: vs Ultimo Destructo, vs Biteforce
- The Disc O’ Inferno
  - Assymetric spinner ballancing
    - Material thinning
      - #SamsBluntLumps
    - The judge’s decision controversy
  - More Machining Porn
  - Fights: vs Chomp
- Chomp
  - HARDOX hammer arms
  - ThatsALotOfPower.gif
  - Huuuuuuuuuuuge ram (the black bit…)
  - Linear motion –> hurty motion
  - LIDAR - ‘AutoChomp’
    - THAT hit on Biteforce
  - Fights: vs Disc O Inferno, vs Captain Shredderator, vs Biteforce (USA Only), vs Yeti
- Deathroll
  - Artbot?
  - Australia.bmp
    - Map Men
  - Fights: vs Captain Shredderator
- Captain Shredderator
  - A very angry biscuit
  - Fights: vs Deathroll, vs Chomp

Referees
- Uniforms matter
- Actual communication between competitors and officials.
- REFDRONE
- Sam’s plane

Robots part 2
- Poison Arrow
  - Nothing. Like. Hypershock.
  - Fights: vs Mega Tento, vs SOW, vs Hypershock, vs Bombshell
- Mega Tento
  - Tentomushi in Robot Wars
  - Moving the ‘drum’
    - Defining a ‘drum’
  - Krave Monster
  - Fights: vs Poison Arrow, vs Stinger TKB (USA only), vs Yeti
- Lycan
  - 35mph top speed. That’s a lot of speeds
  - How fast could a Battlebots-legal robot go?
  - Sam finally squeezes in a Star Wars reference
- Creepy Crawlies
  - 5-part multibot
  - Not a proper clusterbot, apparently.
- Gemini
  - 2-part multibot
  - Also not a proper clusterbot, apparently.
  - Root3

Armchair Engineering: Automation
- What do the rules allow?
  - Sam lets his mind run wild for a while
- What is worth doing?
  - Arena hazard avoidance?
  - Wall avoidance?
  - SENSORDRONE?
  - Automating weapons
    - The Chomp hammer
    - Flippers?
    - Grabbers?
  - Super-fast sumo robots
- Technogames tangent
  - Futher rocketry tangent
    - We don’t come back from this

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