RobotWars101

I;ve seen some lipo batteries fail a while after use. One took a few hours. If the battery was stressed too much, it can cause some minor internal damage, which will eventually give way to lipo failure. Usually when they puff, they don't blow up. In fact, 90% of lipo failures I've seen have been jus...

I've done some serious Ti bending with heat. Guidelines for bending with heat: - Create the bend wit ha large radius - Heat the Ti until it gets only faintly red. Very bright red or orange is bad and will create a weak spot. - Let it air cool. Quenching it makes it hard and brittle. With a bench vis...

I've seen some good success with 1/16" carbon fiber rod assemblies. It's a little more complex to make, but can be extremely strong and good on rigidity. Using some kevlar thread, you can lash rods together or sew plates to the carbon fiber. Then use some black CA glue to glob all over it. The ...

A buddy of mine has been using these in his ant. They work pretty darn well. The only rub is that you need a separate BEC or receiver power from a weapon controller.

http://www.fingertechrobotics.com/prodd ... ft-tinyESC

I built a kind of "modular" arena with 8 wall sections, each the length of 1/4 of a side. This allows all sorts of wall/gap arrangements including the one above, 4 small corner walls, 4 corner drop-offs etc etc. The different arrangments call for some different strategies, especially when...

Ah hah, there's a rule difference here. Shuffle bots strictly do not get any weight bonus. Here's the exact rules excerpt: "Non-wheeled: non-wheeled robots have no rolling elements in contact with the floor and no continuous rolling or cam operated motion in contact with the floor, either direc...

Oh wow, somebody else made a toaster bot! The first video at the 2:00 mark, "The Savage Toaster".

Mine was "The Brave Little Toaster"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miT7hYPLaVs

That's a nice drum bot there. Is it an ant? It looks big and heavy (comparatively). Seems like you had it working pretty well. What design problems did you run into? And yeah, with that much pushout area, if you send yourself flying out you're done for. The only way you would win is if you threw you...

Mine is the only 150g drum bot I know of actually. It's a decent design, but takes some serious planning and balancing of weight so not to go over. As for the arena, yeah, the 150g bots compete in the same arena as the 1lb bots. As for the arena, there are no rules other than it has to be safe. The ...

I decided I may as well just make a thread for Atom Bomb. It's been around a few years and has changed drastically over that time. Peterwaller was curious if here in the US we use any similar parts to you guys, so I figured I'd start off wit ha parts list. My current version is as seen here, the lit...