RobotWars101

Just shows what can be done with access to CNC and rapid prototyping... wish I had

Dave26 wrote:Craig, would you allow this IC exploding flipper type jobby then?

Oh, I wouldn't expect anyone to let me USE it... just that it would seem to get by the stated FRA rules

It wasn't called X1, it was a middleweight called Z. It used a shotgun cartridge to fire a spike out. X1 was made by the Winters who later built Tentomushi and SOFO and was perfectly "safe" in terms of robots.
Pain did use a small explosion to fire their spike but it was nowhere near the danger of ...

Unless I'm mistaken (which I may very well be), the only advantage of using CO2 over air is that you can compress it a lot more, and therefore get more power or more flips, depending on how much of that pressure you actually want to use at the ram. Having Xmm? of CO2 at 100psi stored on board would ...

It's also unclear from that rule whether it means the pressure of the gas that is used in the end effector (i.e the ram of a flipper), or anywhere in the whole system. If it was the latter (which is what I understand it to be), it wouldn't be allowed, since the small CO2 cartridges are pressurised ...

I've managed to track down a 100psi regulator suitable for disposable CO2 cartridges weighing in at on the order of 30g...it's a hell of a lot of weight when you start adding the actual cartridge, but even so!

Would regulated CO2 be a possible rule change? (At least in non-spinner combat, I'm not ...