Author Topic: rnifnuf's DSL Cavalcade of Crap (Read 51302 times)

rnifnuf · « **Reply #120 on:** August 27, 2013, 10:58:27 PM »

This thread goes bump in the night.

I was in Maui for ten days and my laptop has a grudge with DSL so I had to stick with stock. But I am back now so I UPDATED! Cutting Wedge.

Armor is Plastic 10. There are seven ants in this bot. I configured my USB game controller to work as a mouse.

It is very wedgy now and I am happy

Need I say more?

Yes I do.

I would like to say that "rnifnuf's DSL Cavalcade of Crap" is a DSL Standard showcase, not an IRL showcase. Please treat it as such.

Thoughts?

Badnik96 · « **Reply #121 on:** August 28, 2013, 07:56:12 AM »

Looks pretty good. I'm sure you could make it better but I'm not good with popups so I'll let someone else say stuff.

Shield · « **Reply #122 on:** August 28, 2013, 11:29:08 AM »

Good. We need more standard builders.

Anyways, do opponents go up the wedge with ease or is it too steep?

rnifnuf · « **Reply #123 on:** August 28, 2013, 03:23:07 PM »

Cutting Wedge IV version 3.0 is ready to present itself to you guys at GTM.

Armor is Pl 10. It is DSL-S in spite of appearances. Dell Stripes was not the inspiration for Cutting Wedge; if anything, it is the other way around.

All that changed was that I made the wedge a double-hinge wedge. In truth of it all, I don't know if there is official terminology for the double-hinge wedge or not. Such a gawish thing of me to say

Also, check out my stock showcase. I have some half-decent-to-not-that-bad bots and it had a much better start than this blasted showcase. you can find it here.

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Thoughts

ty4er · « **Reply #124 on:** August 28, 2013, 03:46:42 PM »

lower the chassis armour and get stronger skirts. also longer skirts would be good

also how many ants are in there?

rnifnuf · « **Reply #125 on:** September 07, 2013, 05:22:21 PM »

Cutting Wedge IV UPDATE!!!

Armor is Titanium 5 and there are 7 ants there.

I traded armor for wedge durability. An Absolute Improvement? that is arguable. But this is one of the best DSL bots I have ever built. I say that it is tournament ready.

Thoughts?

rnifnuf · « **Reply #126 on:** October 05, 2013, 12:33:04 AM »

Sorry for bump. It was either that or abandon showcase.

I entered Little Star II into Mr.AwesumSauce's Around The World 2 tournament. Literally the night after the ATW2 SVB thread was posted, I updated LSII. Here it is:

Armor is Steel 5.

Ever since quitting competitive eating to focus on more tournament-y endeavors, he has lost a lot of chassis weight which was used for better everything (except for the weapon motor; may it forever remain a piglet). I even improved the wedge.

I discovered that hex plates are a good idea for short VS designs. They have six APs for weapons as opposed to a drum's four, although drums can be mounted on mags and hex plates can't (WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?).

Considerably fast, destructive, good at flipping things, opposes competitive eating, invertible

Fragile, exposed EVERYTHING, can't self-right

Thoughts?

Pwnator · « **Reply #127 on:** October 05, 2013, 01:03:08 AM »

I would advise finding a way to give it some stabilizers. Once the wedge is gone, your motor won't have any leverage to pick things up and instead would flip itself over. Try downgrading to Tit 5 (or Tit3/Pl5 if you intend to add external armor) and find a better motor setup (probably a separate ME instead of wasting more weight with the steel extender) and you could afford some angled sheets to stabilize the thing.

rnifnuf · « **Reply #128 on:** October 06, 2013, 11:05:31 PM »

Is this better?

Armor is Titanium 5.

I added the most stable stabilizers I could find: 50cm tall shell plates for 250cm discs. Not only did it they add stability, they also provided some kind of external armor for LSII, so that HS don't get to the miniscule chassis.

The only downgrade was the drive, now with large ants instead of hypnos. But that still doesn't change the destructabitityness of this thing.

THIS is what I should have entered into ATW2.

Thoughts?

Badnik96 · « **Reply #129 on:** October 07, 2013, 07:54:12 AM »

Looks kinda fragile, but if anything gets back there you're toast anyway.

090901 · « **Reply #130 on:** October 07, 2013, 08:34:11 PM »

the extender work is so messy

Naryar · « **Reply #131 on:** October 08, 2013, 12:33:18 AM »

Yes it is. Fix that in priority.

rnifnuf · « **Reply #132 on:** October 10, 2013, 10:36:32 PM »

Quote from: 090901 on October 07, 2013, 08:34:11 PM

the extender work is so messy

Quote from: Naryar on October 08, 2013, 12:33:18 AM

Yes it is. Fix that in priority.

See, I take advice. Unlike some people on this forum.

This is my attempt at cleaning up the extender work which both Naryar and Chris told me to do. The CF extenders are pretty well protected by the angled shell spinner plates, so having them exposed isn't doing much harm. The flipper maker thingies keep the plates far enough away from the piglet so that nothing intersects, but close enough together that HS don't get to the frail chassis.

Speaking of which, armor is Titanium 1. This was to allow the weight for hypnos instead of ants so it could be faster than before.

Thoughts?

Naryar · « **Reply #133 on:** October 11, 2013, 12:59:17 AM »

attach directly the motors to the baseplate via anchors or something.

rnifnuf · « **Reply #134 on:** October 19, 2013, 12:55:38 AM »

Quote from: Naryar on October 11, 2013, 12:59:17 AM

attach directly the motors to the baseplate via anchors or something.

In my attempt to comprehend what you meant, I built a new bot. A SHW, obviously not to replace LSII...

But it made me so red hot with anger that I just had some ice cream in an attempt to cool myself down. Why am I red hot with anger, you ask? Because...

AGODdamnit! Armor is Titanium 5, weapon motors are 4-mags, NPCs are fast.

What I was trying to do was make the offspring of Backyard Shredder and Orbital Delivery Vehicle--the Diagonal Spinner.

I'm not sure if this is the first DS. If it is then go me, I invented a new bot type. Otherwise, okay

I already had something similar built in DSL3, so I wanted to make it in DSL2. This is probably a good bot (no testing has been done on it) as was the process of building it.

And then it AGOD'd

I've heard that AGOD can be fixed by pressing Pause/break in the botlab then going to the test arena then back to the botlab and KABOOM, the AGOD is no more. However, this hasn't worked for me. Every time I fight another bot to test if it re-AGODed or not, it re-AGODs

I don't want to sound like a n00b, but how do you fix AGOD for a spinner? The Pause/break method doesn't seem to work. This must be fixed or else this bot is ruined.

AGOD aside... Thoughts?

Naryar · « **Reply #135 on:** October 19, 2013, 01:02:23 AM »

What are the spinners attached to ? Don't tell me you attached them to a mobile attachment.

rnifnuf · « **Reply #136 on:** October 19, 2013, 01:08:51 AM »

Quote from: Naryar on October 19, 2013, 01:02:23 AM

What are the spinners attached to ? Don't tell me you attached them to a mobile attachment.

If by mobile attachment you mean burst motor/servo, then no. It is a Multi Extender that leads into a Y-connector wihich splits into two 80-cm Aluminum extenders which have a flipper segment attached to them which has a 4-mag which spins a 100cm disc with 4 60kg Sledgehammers on it.

All I want to know at this point is how to fix the AGOD, AGODdamnit!

Naryar · « **Reply #137 on:** October 19, 2013, 02:08:12 AM »

Then it should be fine.

Just rebuild the weapon (disc+hammers). Try building with the pause button on as well.

rnifnuf · « **Reply #138 on:** October 20, 2013, 01:21:56 AM »

Didn't work. AGODDAMNIT

The trick where you export and then re-import didn't work either! So in short, my experience building this post-Battlebots 3.0 Son of Whyachi is...

AGODDAMNIT

I'll look for another obscure method to fix this issue. In the mean time, let me point out that it really only seems to happen on HW and up, which leads me to unveil this AW VS.

Armor is Titanium 1, neither the bars nor the LDS teeth intersect a thing besides the chassis so it is (likely) DSL-S.

I wanted to make an AW VS so I did. I mean--come on--how many AW VS are out there? not many, I assume.

I don't have a name for this so for now it is named "Thig." Please give me some kind of name suggestion things I could name it, something clever, punny, or witty.

Thoughts?

rnifnuf · « **Reply #139 on:** October 22, 2013, 09:58:24 PM »

Sorry for double post :[

How about this bot?

Armor is Titanium 1.

Anyone who is following my stock showcase as well as my DSL showcase will recognize Antempus Fugit, my Lightweight frenZy hammer. This bot, 2XS Chompy, is the Antweight version of Antempus Fugit. It actually was built before AF, 2XSC was just showcased later.

This bot was designed to combat the rally of AW rammers and HS. It is supposed to be DSL-S. I really don't know what else to say other than where else have you seen an astro be used as a weapon motor. Also AGODDAMNIT

Thoughts?

Also this is my 100th post. ONE-MAN DANCE PARTY! WOO!