Epic Robotics

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

Oh I see! That's really smart. Disables any plan I had to attack it by driving at the front corner anyway.

[EpicentrE]

Well you've got the right idea; this design's main weakness is that it really only has a small area where the disk is effective. I already have ideas to make that better for the future, but I just wanted to get this built to test the design out. If you can repeatedly get around the sides or back I can't do much about it, apart from flail and hope I catch you with the tooth.

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

The way mine are this time, if I meet any spinner, I am coming out in bits. But that's always fun.

[Rapidrory]

How drivable is it with the disc at full whack? Do you get any odd gyro effects due to the disc angle?

[EpicentrE]

I don't have an enclosed arena to test it in, unfortunately. I've driven it around at about 25% throttle and it was perfectly controllable, but was too scared to go any higher!

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

Famous last words, part II

[suvv]

i want to see this thing in action at full tilt though im expecting things to explode

[Jas]

I could sense my name being used. Just been watching the AWS live stream.

RefAnt and KatKin can be seen on Gary's site here http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g0xan/sac/pictures.htm

Back in the days of servo's it was a squeeze, but Katkin ran on 4 micro servos with a stripped down RX and very tame disc motor. It was more a show piece than a full on fighter.

RefAnt was just a concept Gary and I had that we put into place, I guess with current tech it could be made a whole lot smaller.

Speak soon guys.

Jas

[Jas]

And here's a video of it. Sorry about the music.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSOmAm_x5-4

[Occashokka]

Scott how's entropy going after I broke the self right / blade thing ?(sorry about that,I saw it rebroke straight away in the next fight)