Show notes
- Follow up
- Ryan got things wrong
- Bulky feeder wedges aren’t all that common on HW drums
- Xiake and Spin Doctor are rare exceptions
- Vanquish appears set to appear again this season
- Bulky feeder wedges aren’t all that common on HW drums
- Ryan got things wrong
- Front Matter: technology is bad edition
- Elon Musk vs the press
- Amazon Echo privacy failure
- Apple ejected Sam’s favourite app
- Battlebots, Episode 3
- Another very good episode
- Overhaul vs Sawblaze
- Overhaul
- Sam thinks Overhaul is ugly
- Many invisible improvements to Overhaul, as chronicled in Charles Guan’s superb build-log
- SawBlaze
- Green flames!
- A saw!
- Trash talk!
- Sawblaze’s saw really, really works
- Where does Overhul fit within the meta?
- Decent anti-spinner setups
- Overhaul
- Whiplash vs Hypothermia
- Whiplash
- Versatile weapon rather than a particularly powerful weapon
- Hypothermia
- Very neat lifter mechanism
- Option of a much more defensive plough
- Posibly more robust than this fight would make it seem
- Wonderful overhead hits from Whiplash
- Whiplash
- Four Horsemen vs Double Jeopardy vs Gamma 9
- Four Horsemen
- From Ian Watts and the team that created The Swarm and The Grubs
- Double Jeopardy
- From the team that brought us the unreasonably robust and effective Troublemaker at Robogames, among other machines.
- The quick build means the weapon is much heavier than it could potentially be, hence the very weak armour
- Gamma 9
- From the team that brought us the largely ineffective but uneniably creative walker Gammatron
- The dome is an aesthetic throwback to the original machines
- From the team that brought us the largely ineffective but uneniably creative walker Gammatron
- Double Jeopardy’s AMA revealed that the cannon did serious damage to Gamma 9
- Judges’ decision shenanigens
- Was it a knockout for Gamma 9?
- Under Battlebots’ double knockout rules, this fight goes to the judges anyway as it lasted more than 60 seconds
- Four Horsemen
- WarHawk vs Axe Backwards
- Warhawk
- A standard but well excecuted spinner design
- Axe Backwards
- Full. Body. Drum.
- Extremely robust drum
- Less robust everythng else
- Sam doesn’t understand the cultural importance of the primary weapon meme
- Nuts 3 for Battlebots 2019?
- #NutsAcrossThePond
- Warhawk
- Hypershock vs Biteforce
- Hypershock
- Possibly the best looking robot ever made
- Rock ship from FTL
- Hypershock toy when?
- Biteforce
- Still an unispiring design, but immensely powerful
- Faruq jingle when?
- Hypershock evidently in trouble from the very start
- Hypershock
- EM drive
- P H Y S I C S
- Good explanations of EM drive are hard to find
- Ryan is wrong about the device being open ended
- Bonus after aftershow
