Author Topic: Clickbeetle's DSL bots (Read 85804 times)

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #20 on:** September 20, 2006, 10:06:48 PM »

Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth:

Magmotor driive, 4 PC545 batteries, 1mm titanium armor.

The goal here was just to make a huge bot with a huge drum. That drum stores a lot of KE, and because of the way it hangs below the chassis, it can hit even wedges that get under. WaGoT's weaknesses are its weak drive, weak rear armor (the front is protected by the drum and the sides are protected by those big wheels) and its instability if it loses a tooth or takes a really big hit. Strengths are invertibility and of course flipping bots like burgers.

Mr. Weedy · « **Reply #21 on:** September 21, 2006, 12:29:28 PM »

How much does that weight? Like 800 kgs or something? That looks quite simple and I have seen that kind of designs quite many or at least I think so. Maybe I have imaginated that kind of designs in my mind or something...

But anyway the point in this post was that, that is correctly designed to be also a very good flipper. Well done. =)

eFFeeMMe · « **Reply #22 on:** September 24, 2006, 10:47:33 AM »

I love drummers, your bots, and invertible stuff.

So yeah, pretty darn good bot :P

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #23 on:** October 31, 2006, 06:10:28 PM »

This is going to be my entry in BBEANS2.

Name - Fight or Flight. 2 E-tek drive, 4 PC625 batteries + 2 Battlepacks, Beta burst powered grab/lift mechanism. I forgot what armor it has. Something basic like 3mm Al or 3mm Ti though.

Fight or Flight is the heavyweight Fear Itself. It works like Complete Control in that it grabs bots and lifts them into the air, then drops them. The frenZy hammer clamp also makes a good hammer weapon for when the flipper breaks.

The name refers to its abilty to either fight (hammer) or flight (grab and lift) and the well-known "fight or flight" panic response in many animals.

That's Grog getting beat in the lower left corner, so shell spinners beware!

deadkenndys1105 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 31, 2006, 08:35:00 PM »

It could be built. The wiring and getting things working right would be a bit of a pain. I wonder how it will do?

Mr. Weedy · « **Reply #25 on:** November 01, 2006, 01:58:53 AM »

YOU ARE GOING DOWN BRO!!!! Jou. :lol:

Nothing serious. Just kidding. Nice bot but I think that won't beat mine. At least by that image because I have very different structure than that.

But nice bot indeed. Well done. (: There will be tough fighting on BBEANS 2.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #26 on:** November 01, 2006, 02:17:26 PM »

Quote from: deadkenndys1105

It could be built. The wiring and getting things working right would be a bit of a pain. I wonder how it will do?

Yeah, I had to make custom AI for it to get it to work right.

The AI uses a "primary weapon" and a "secondary weapon". Initially only the primary weapon is used. When the primary weapon breaks, the AI stops using it and switches to the secondary weapon. It also has two "Other" weapons that it uses all the time, for srimechs, etc.

But the good news is, I can use that code to AI other bots too. Should be pretty useful.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #27 on:** November 22, 2006, 04:11:27 PM »

Amidst all the BBEANS stuff, I managed to make a new bot.

VHS (Vertical/Horizontal Spinner) - MW

Drive: 2 Magmotors Batteries: 2 long batteries Weapon motor: TWM3R2 Armor: 3mm aluminum

The two bots in the pic are actually the same bot. VHS's weapon is mounted on a servo, and by rotating it, it can be either a vertical or horizontal spinner. It even has enough power to switch modes mid-battle. The skirts are mounted on limited axles, so they always touch the ground no matter what mode the bot is in.

This is quite useful, because VHS can flip opponents with the vertical disc, then go horizontal to hit them without flipping them right side up. It can also get under bar spinners like VENGEANCE in horizontal mode to hit the chassis, and in vertical mode it can take on wedges and hammers. And if it loses its disc, VHS still has two little spikes that it can thwack bots with.

With the optional V/H weapon, invertibility, good drive, wedges, and thwacking spikes, VHS is the most versatile design I have.

deadkenndys1105 · « **Reply #28 on:** November 22, 2006, 07:01:30 PM »

I would love to see this thing in action. Please make a movie of it. What gave you the idea for this thing? Also would you mind posting the insides of it or is it going to end up like the rupt.

Mr. Weedy · « **Reply #29 on:** November 23, 2006, 04:21:55 AM »

Wow. Man. That's sick. I would really want to see a movie of this in action. Wow. Really original. Spinning disc in the end of servo motor. Very good idea. Man. :shock:

SpyGuy · « **Reply #30 on:** November 25, 2006, 12:45:06 AM »

Now that is a cool design. I'd like to see the movie too, please, especially in battle.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #31 on:** November 25, 2006, 06:50:19 PM »

Insides:

Battle demo video:

^^Also gives you a nice look at the Electric Arena 2 in action.

Mr. Weedy · « **Reply #32 on:** November 26, 2006, 07:01:15 AM »

Wow. Shii maan that's awesome bot. :shock: It looked so cool on the arena.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #33 on:** February 17, 2007, 01:04:56 PM »

Megawhirl V, middleweight, double magmotors for the weapon, 1 PC545 for power, 1mm Al armor, NPC-T64's for drive.

It sounds crazy, but I wanted to make a shell spinner with powerful drive so it could push around other bots. I also wanted to put a wedge in the front so it could get under bots and hit their undersides, and prevent other bots from doing the same. The wedge also makes it really easy to tell which end is the front.

It ended up working pretty well... Megawhirl V performs sort of like a cross between a shell spinner and a popup wedge 8) Its weaknesses are that after about 2 minutes it starts really slowing down, the shell isn't very hard to stop if you hit it from the side, and if other bots can get under it it's probably done for.

Mr. Weedy · « **Reply #34 on:** February 18, 2007, 08:40:39 AM »

Nice bot and original I like the combination of wedge and shell spinner. That's looking nice. :D

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #35 on:** February 23, 2007, 11:02:19 PM »

Terrible Abomination has always been my biggest vertical spinner... in fact, one of the biggest vertical spinners I've ever seen, with a 250 cm disc covered in teeth.

Until now. Now I have a bot that dwarfs any other.

How big is it?

...THIS BIG!

This is Phasmatodean... a heavyweight (not SHW, although it might look like it) vertical spinner with a bar four and a half meters in diameter tipped with 70kg hammers. It's powered by a double Perm gearbox, 5 Battlepacks, Magmotor drive, and has 1mm titanium armor.

Battleshots 'n stuff:

Phasmatodean pushes the max sphere to its limits. The bot just barely fits inside the size limit; moving a few pixels in any direction will make it too big.

It has a very long spinup time (hence the Infinity arena), and it's quite fragile if you can get a few hits on it, but it delivers some MASSIVE hits. It can easily punt bots clear across the Combat Arena, or up off the screen, and 10000+ damage isn't uncommon.

Here is about the biggest hit I've seen...

Sir Killalot is just that indistinguishable blur in the distance. :twisted: You can also see some chunks of debris way out there if you look closely.

Phasmatodean isn't that great at actually beating most opponents, mostly because of the spinup time but also because it sometimes flips itself from the recoil of those huge hits, and it can't self-right unless it's really lucky. But it's definitely the most powerful HW I've ever built, and a blast to fight with.

Trivia: Phasmatodean is the scientific term for walking stick insects, in the order Phasmatodea. I called it that because it's all thin and stickly, and "Walking Stick" or some derivation like "Spinning Stick" just doesn't sound cool.

In case you can't see, the front of the bot says, "If you can read this, you're too close."

Mr. Weedy · « **Reply #36 on:** February 24, 2007, 03:29:27 AM »

Bit The Ultimate Spike Beetle one of those wheel supports and it is gone. :twisted:

But looks nice. Very original design. =) I would like to see a video or two how it shoots those bots to eternity. :D

duh102 · « **Reply #37 on:** February 24, 2007, 01:42:41 PM »

*claps quite a bit*
I like your glib saying, although technically they could read it if they came at you sideways, right?

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #38 on:** May 27, 2008, 07:43:17 PM »

B-b-b-b-bump bump ka-THUMP.

Over a year since I last posted a bot? I've been gone longer than I thought.

I was hoping to get this bot done for the Bot of the Month contest, but alas, the final tweaking and skinning took too long.

Nothing too extraordinary about Crown of Thorns--just another LW horizontal spinner--except that it has a pretty darn big weapon for a LW. That's a 150 cm disc with 12 Typhoon spikes, powered by a Perm 80. It's tilted at a slight angle so it can hit wedges in the front, or it can turn around to whack off hammers.

1 mm titanium armor, Astroflight drive, 2 red battlepacks for power.

Sage · « **Reply #39 on:** May 27, 2008, 07:53:06 PM »

its amazing. would have won BoTM easy.