RobotWars101

Felt it was time for something a little on the weirder side for a robot: https://i.imgur.com/73zdrxj.jpg A chainsaw wielding ant! Using a bosch nanoblade connected to an 1806 motor, at the moment just static in the chassis. This version is very much a simply get something working one rather than wha...

That alright! The simple answer is that I kind of don't... The mounting hole is the very last thing I put in. I use Emachineshop for this as it has some good features that help. For bars it's fairly easy: I design the outside profile with the counterweight, no need to worry about the mount here just...

Waterjet cutting for them all so far, though I am in the process of finishing building a router that can let me route them myself.

One thing to note is that it's pretty important to get genuine Grade 5 ti if you're going down this route. Grade 2 is just too soft.

My spinners actually tend to the lighter side it seems, Test is only a 16g blade but I run very aggressive tooth profiles on the spinners. Downside of this is that you generally use a disc every event or two.

On the subject of ABS being a pain, it sure can be. However I absolutely recommend a PEI sheet print bed, made a huge difference to my printing. With the bed at 110C I get great bed adhesion which cuts down warping a ton. Combined with tabs onto the corners of things you're printing and avoiding des...

It's probably a battery from the Turnigy Graphene range (Available from Hobbyking) which are still just LiPo so you can use them.

Nuts & bots has been suffering difficulties with its suppliers for a good portion of this year after repeated failings on the motor supply side and the earlier issues with a component discontinuation hitting the NanoTwo V3's. Things are looking up though! The new NanoTwo LT's are much more relia...

One outcome of the max of 3 robots per team is that it helped open up the final group to a wider number of teams which I liked quite a lot. This to me felt like a better reason for doing that than even getting a more manageable entry number. Even though it'd be a rule that hurts my own chances I'd b...

I must say I don't like the idea of restricting spinners more than other classes of robots through higher fees. At the end of the day the competition should remain as fair as possible between robot classes. We do have a 5 minute from call to fight rule, maybe it should start having the screws tighte...

Personally I wouldn't be adverse to a more mandatory fee for entries or dropping the limit to 3 robots. Though that 3 robots being 2 rollers + walker/cluster as I don't think a simple 3 robot limit with all being rollers would have much of an impact. Plus always good to encourage the weirder robots ...