rnifnuf's DSL Cavalcade of Crap

[MassimoV]

You can't use those motrs with that sized chassis. If you're building competitively, don't do 180 degree hammer.

[Naryar]

Intredasting, does it work ?

[Badnik96]

It's certainly different... I second Nar's question though

[rnifnuf]

Intredasting, does it work ?

It's certainly different... I second Nar's question though

Actually it works just fine. The tail and front supports help make the bot stable. Also, in case you couldn't tell, the copals in the back are angled as well for support.

Although I haven't rested it in battle, it should be okay. I'll work in making it more DSL-Standard-ey even though it is already DSL-S.

More on that at some time earlier than 11...

[rnifnuf]

Doublepostsorry :[

But I have a new bot.

Armor is Titanium 1.

I wanted to make an Angled HS kida like something that akshaylan made, except its DSL-S. Since the spinner looks like a star or sun and it wobbles as the thing spins, I named it Sundance.

It is hard to see from this angle, but I put a tail in the back to prevent it from falling backwards when it stops moving. The front wedge is also a stabilizer.

There's really not much to say here, so...

SUMMARY:

Name: Sundance
Weight class: Beetleweight
Bot type: Angled Horizontal Spinner
Armor: 1mm Titanium
Weapon: 6 razor tips on a hex plate
Battery: 3 ants
Drive: 2WD Astroflights with wide ants
Weapon motor: Piglet

ADVANTAGES:
+Has plenty of Razors
+Fast and wedgy
+Can self-right
+Stable

DISADVANTAGES:
-Weak armor
-Big vulnerable chassis

Thoughts?

[MassimoV]

The wedge isn't going to be very good. put the wedge on the center AP.

[rnifnuf]

The wedge isn't going to be very good. put the wedge on the center AP.

Done.

Armor is now Plastic 3

I lowered the wedge to a single polycarbonate skirt to get Plastic 3. That's all I changed.

Thoughts?

[Mr. AS]

it looks pretty original. there aren't many wedged HS's anymore, which is very saddening. the only thing i would really change is the rotating of the razors,
PS is the wedge any good? often when building a robot where a lot of weight is moved in one direction (VS, wedged HS/jugglers with an odd amount of motors, sometimes even pokers) the wedge tends to be kind of crap.

[rnifnuf]

the only thing i would really change is the rotating of the razors,

Why do you think I should rotate them differently?

Anyways, I have a new bot.

Armor is Plastic 5. Those are regular NPC-T64s there. Cutting Wedge was originally going to be a flipper/top spinner hybrid called Flip Out, but then it became Cutting Wedge after I found that one JX wasn't enough to flip a MW on top of it. Flip Out is now a HW weapon flipper (NOT a popup)! Also the ant batteries are Sanyo brand.

All around the DSL stage,
Lightweights are all that we've got.
Then you find out this robot's name,
POP! Goes The Robot.

This thing will make you want to shout,
I really kid you not.
When it rips you guts right out,
POP! Goes The Robot.

This is POP! Goes The Robot, a LW popup that is basically CW IV's little brother. It has four razors on a BSG-200, NPC-T64 drive with hypnos, two ants and a battlepack for power, and some other stuff on stuffing extenders. Mmm, stuffing...

This is a bot that is a good bot. I don't really have anything else to say about it besides the summary. SUMMARY TIME!

SUMMARY:
Name: POP! Goes The Robot
Weight Class: Lightweight
Bot type: Popup
Armor: 5mm Plastic
Weapon: 4 Razor tips
Battery: 2 ants and 1 battlepack
Drive: 2WD NPC-T64 with Hypnos
Weapon power: 1 BSG-200

ADVANTAGES:
+Ridiculously fast
+Strong weapons
+Good armor
+Can self-right

DISADVANTAGES:
-Somewhat fragile
-Maybe a little... too fast.

Thoughts?

[Mr. AS]

on spinners like the one you posted, if you rotate the razors so that one of the 3 sides is facing outwards from the motor. this will make it so that whenever a robot is on your wedge, you can rack up points much easier.

the popup needs to be wider btw. maybe if you downgraded the wheels to large ant wheels, and downgraded the wedge to poly, you could get 80cm angled skirts.

[rnifnuf]

It is already a polycarbonate wedge. Why people get that confused, I will never know.

And what you suggested for POP!'s wedge actually made it worse. It is theoretically more effective than the previous wedge, but the long wedge made it unable to self-right. This is why I was against lengthening the wedge on Cutting Wedge. Sometimes, the BSG conks out for no reason when it is flipped over (It looks like the BSG axle is bent beyond its set range, thus making it useless).

I am making this new design a true popup (weapons fire backwards instead of forwards for those who don't know) so that it can actually self-right. That way, it isn't screwed if it is somehow flipped over.

AwesumSauce, I know that you are just trying to help, and I appreciate that. But alas, we are not perfect.

Except Naryar. He is perfect and awesome and manly and cool. He is an example to us all. We should really bow down to him one of these days.

But given POP!'s wedge worries and inability to self-right, should I make it a true popup or should I calmly and quietly ragequit/keep the design the same as before?

[Paranoia]

It is already a polycarbonate wedge. Why people get that confused, I will never know.

And what you suggested for POP!'s wedge actually made it worse. It is theoretically more effective than the previous wedge, but the long wedge made it unable to self-right. This is why I was against lengthening the wedge on Cutting Wedge. Sometimes, the BSG conks out for no reason when it is flipped over (It looks like the BSG axle is bent beyond its set range, thus making it useless).

I am making this new design a true popup (weapons fire backwards instead of forwards for those who don't know) so that it can actually self-right. That way, it isn't screwed if it is somehow flipped over.

AwesumSauce, I know that you are just trying to help, and I appreciate that. But alas, we are not perfect.

Except Naryar. He is perfect and awesome and manly and cool. He is an example to us all. We should really bow down to him one of these days.

But given POP!'s wedge worries and inability to self-right, should I make it a true popup or should I calmly and quietly ragequit/keep the design the same as before?

Regular Pop-Ups do still have the ability to self-right on the contrary and if you are trying to make a true popup you may want to extend the wedge in order to accommodate the razors.


If you want to tribute to Naryar, I guess you could give the bot a pair of Kamina's glasses and a mustache.

[rnifnuf]

It is already a polycarbonate wedge. Why people get that confused, I will never know.

And what you suggested for POP!'s wedge actually made it worse. It is theoretically more effective than the previous wedge, but the long wedge made it unable to self-right. This is why I was against lengthening the wedge on Cutting Wedge. Sometimes, the BSG conks out for no reason when it is flipped over (It looks like the BSG axle is bent beyond its set range, thus making it useless).

I am making this new design a true popup (weapons fire backwards instead of forwards for those who don't know) so that it can actually self-right. That way, it isn't screwed if it is somehow flipped over.

AwesumSauce, I know that you are just trying to help, and I appreciate that. But alas, we are not perfect.

Except Naryar. He is perfect and awesome and manly and cool. He is an example to us all. We should really bow down to him one of these days.

But given POP!'s wedge worries and inability to self-right, should I make it a true popup or should I calmly and quietly ragequit/keep the design the same as before?

Regular Pop-Ups do still have the ability to self-right on the contrary and if you are trying to make a true popup you may want to extend the wedge in order to accommodate the razors.


If you want to tribute to Naryar, I guess you could give the bot a pair of Kamina's glasses and a mustache.

The problem is that the wedge is so long that the bot can't flip itself over the wedge. Earlier versions of Cutting Wedge had this very problem, so I shortened the wedge to 40cm skirts.

Clickbeetle should make 60cm and 100cm skirts for DSL3. That would be sweet as I could have my longer wedge and some chance at self-righting.

[helloface]

You're right, 60 & 100 skirts would be cool.

[rnifnuf]

You're right, 60 & 100 skirts would be cool.

Of course I'm right. I am, after all, a genius.

Me being a genius aside, I built a SHW Shell Spinner.

Armor is Plastic 5 + 4 halfsheets, those are NPC-T64 Fasts (did you know that they make a T74 model that is the same shape yet more powerful and heavier?)

Its name is Sine Strategy, after its alternating attack method between flail razors and hammers. In a way, the hammers help protect the flails from those nasty spinnerses.

It has halfsheets for armor. All of them are directly attached to the baseplate, so popups can suck it.

SUMMARY:

Name: SHW- Sine Strategy
Weight Class: Super Heavyweight
Bot type: Shell Spinner
Armor: 5mm Plastic
Weapon: 12 razor tips and 6 DSL Hammer 4's
Battery: 6 ants
Drive: 2WD NPC-T64 Fast with Hypno wheels
Weapon power: 1 Dual Perm-132 gearbox

ADVANTAGES:

+Destructive
+Somewhat fast
+Can Self-right
+Has halfsheet armor

DISADVANTAGES:
-Has issues self-righting
-Flails AGODed (AGODDAMNIT )

Thoughts?

[Badnik96]

Interesting. I once tried a MW with a similar weapon setup, forgot how well it worked.

[rnifnuf]

Two bots that were experiments and might be turned into serious bots:

If Robot Wars was Pokemon X/Y and Hypnodisc could mega evolve... Mega-Hypnodisc likely wouldn't look like this:

Armor is Plastic 10 and those are normal NPCs.

Hypnocto is the name and destruction is supposed to be its game. I haven't tested it yet so I don't know exactly how well it works. Those halfsheets are supports.

SUMMARY:
Name: Hypnocto
Weight class: Middleweight
Bot type: Horizontal Spinner
Armor: 10mm Plastic
Weapon: 8 Hypno Teeth
Battery: 6 ants
Drive: 2WD NPC-T64 with Vlads
Weapon power: 1 TWM3R weapon motor

ADVANTAGES:
+Destructive (probably)
+Good battery power
+Invertible

DISADVANTAGES:
-Exposed Magmotor
-Potentially Popup food

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SnSnSnSnS. Armor is Plastic 3.

This bot is Tin Sulfide. Its a chemistry joke.

This bot is an SnS. The chemical symbol on the periodic table for Tin is Sn and the symbol for Sulfur is S.

I wanted to make a LW Tribar SnS. It wasn't quite what I imagined. Its supposed to spin counterclockwise. Nintendo was originally a manufacturer of playing cards.

SUMMARY:
Name: Tin Sulfide
Weight class: Lightweight
Bot type: Sit and Spin
Armor: 3mm Plastic
Weapon: 3 Spiked clubs
Battery: 3 ants
Drive: 2WD TWM3 for driving, 3WD TWM3 for SnS-ing (Vlad wheels)
Weapon power: Drive

ADVANTAGES:

+Spins really fast
+Airtightish chassis
+Original--Do not steal

DISADVANTAGES:
-About as well tested as Windows Vista
-Essentially one big chemistry joke

Thoughts?

[Enigm@]

the latter doesn't have enough reach to do anything as an sns

[Naryar]

the latter doesn't have enough reach to do anything as an sns

Yup. Neither does it have enough weapon weight.

[martymidget]

Halfsheets aren't spread out wide enough on the HS.