Show notes
- Follow up
- SpaceX
- Impact of Government shutdown less severe than we assumed
- Plus that’s over…for now…
- Texas has a coastline.
- Why Stainless for the Starship?
- Impact of Government shutdown less severe than we assumed
- Bugglebots
- Meltybrain build diary
- Robot safety
- Removable links, external switches, and internal switches all have their pros and cons
- Kits: more than just the D2
- Kinetic
- Weta
- Safety concerns re: kits with spinners
- Viper (US Antweight)
- Reddit comments: 1 & 2
- The meta at various weight classes
- SpaceX
- Bugglebots: The Grand Final
- RumbleBee
- Maximum Ogredrive da real MVP
- =5th: SCD
- An almost perfect performance
- =5th: Rev 2
- POWAAAAAAAAH
- 4th: Snappy
- Competetive uncompetetiveness
- 3rd: Captain Doom
- Top tier driving = podium places
- 2nd: Limpet
- The wedgiest wedge
- 1st: K2
- Triple threat: solid weapon, solid drivetrain, solid strategy.
- RumbleBee
- Bugglebots series review
- Bugglebots was really good, somehow living up to the hype
- Production
- Superb camerawork and editing, particularly in fights
- Excellent graphics
- Minor greenscreen issues
- Reasonably simple improvements to audio
- Ryan keeps saying ‘condenser mic’ because he apparently forgot how to say the word ‘handheld’
- “Audio is really important” - Two Podcasters, 2019
- Possible tweaks to pacing
- Fewer interviews?
- Battlebots style overlay?
- More BTS?
- Judges’ segments
- No set runtime
- Fewer interviews?
- High-quality commentary
- Competition format
- Really effective heat format
- Possibly needed explaining early on?
- Really effective heat format
- Robots
- Variety of designs of robot
- Variety of experience levels of teams
- Possible seeding for Series 2?