RobotWars101

It would be a bit of a trip.

Firecracker did fight a bit over a week ago at Maker Faire Orlando. Here's a match with a shell spinner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIVmBsDKYjot=2h54m22s

Version 1: https://i.imgur.com/Z5XFvGG.jpg 30:1 Pololu HP's for drive, 150:1 for the lifter Nanotwo for drive, tinyesc for weapon Forks and plow are hand forged from a leaf spring Version 2: https://i.imgur.com/K5FXOSi.jpg 10:1 Pololu HP's for drive, 150:1 for the lifter Nanotwo for drive, tinyesc f...

There's another aspect which no-one as of yet has commented on which is that all three of the arenas Mike linked appear to have thick "barriers" running around the outside of the arena surface. I suppose these serve a similar purpose to the spike strips on the outside of the BattleBots ar...

Seeing as a few of you were interested in my arena I figured I'd link to a post I made about it recently on my site- http://nearchaos.net/bringing-an-arena-out-of-retirement/ That post shows a lot of the key features of the box, but doesn't cover everything. Area: ~6ft square Floor: Painted MDF Stru...

Saw a question pop up about US events- Yes, many of the US events run a 2 minute time limit for 150g-3lb robots. No, I don't think that the match length is necessarily the big time sink at most events. It's been a while since I've been able to watch an AWS live stream since I'm in the US, but I can ...