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1882
« on: August 19, 2011, 04:34:25 PM »
I'm gearing up for my ultimate robot nerd weekend.
Friday Night: cut stuff for armor mounts and plows for Phoenix and DoorStop.
Saturday: clean up school's robotics lab/fix FIRST robot
Saturday Night: Build/tweek BOF bots in RA2
Sunday: Weld stuff for DoorStop and Phoenix/finish Phoenix.
1883
« on: August 19, 2011, 03:13:32 PM »
I've gotta do some updates/replace that placeholder bot I sent.
1884
« on: August 19, 2011, 12:20:51 PM »
How'd I miss that? Anyways congratulations.
1885
« on: August 19, 2011, 09:41:37 AM »
Feel free to post any cool or interesting pictures you've taken. I'll start it off with some pictures from my trip to Utah  Sunset at Brians Head UT  Dry Lake Bed  Sunrise at Fisher Towers, Moab UT
1886
« on: August 19, 2011, 07:28:06 AM »
Oh that sucks. Starting school on a Friday in the middle of August. I've still got till September 7th 
1887
« on: August 18, 2011, 09:40:43 PM »
The speed limit Mr. Officer. I've never pushed my van past 80 but I think the speed limited cuts in around 110. Also the Ford Raptor sounds way more badass than the rover.
1888
« on: August 18, 2011, 09:25:43 PM »
My van, it's got a 3.8L V6
1889
« on: August 18, 2011, 05:10:26 PM »
Cool idea running all 4 weightclasses. Can I please enter this time? I'll be impartial to judging my own fights. Or you could find someone else to "Guest Judge" my fights. (that's what's done IRL if one of re judges has a team affiliation)
1890
« on: August 18, 2011, 12:26:05 PM »
My cars airconditioner is leaking condensation inside. I spent all day trying to fix it.
1891
« on: August 17, 2011, 07:51:53 PM »
I have moto 2010, FI 2010 and FI 2007
1892
« on: August 17, 2011, 07:33:13 PM »
I.am FIRST (a special about FIRST robotics) aired on ABC on august 14th
1893
« on: August 17, 2011, 08:17:02 AM »
Did you PM Dragonfire and ask him to host? He normally does if he gets asked to.
I still need to come up with a second bot.
1894
« on: August 16, 2011, 08:54:26 PM »
Yep its a sportsman 30 which is equvelint in weight to 13.6kg.
Right now it weighs 21lbs (9.5kg) without armor. With planned armor it will weigh an anorexic 24lbs (10.8kg). The remainig 6lbs will go towards interchangeable stuff like an anticrusher web, rear plow, or a whatever else I think of.
1895
« on: August 16, 2011, 06:24:19 PM »
I wrecked my little orange truck...
I loved that truck. 
 you killed The Greak Pumpkin? I feel really bad for you. Laid off last week and wrecked car this week. Hope things get better for you.
1896
« on: August 16, 2011, 01:15:39 PM »
Some good looking bots here.
And the there are some that are really pushing "realistic". I'm looking at you two Enigma and Skittles.
1897
« on: August 16, 2011, 12:42:36 PM »
It still amazes me that it took till series 7 of RW for someone to come with a robot that was designed to just grab and pit other robots. (it also amazes me that no one ever built a complete control style clampbot to accomplish this)
GF you are looking at this from a spectator standpoint, which is all about entertainment value and fight length. Take a look from a competitors standpoint.
As a competitor your goal is to win. You also want to do that as quickly as possible so that you machine doesn't need excessive repairs or take unneeded abuse. In RW there were four ways of doing that; pit, ko, oota, judges decision. Judges Decisions take the whole fight and require you to "win" the fight by being aggressive, controlling the flow of the fight and dishing out more damage. This is hard to do and hard on the robot so we'll rule this out. Winning by KO is also very hard on a robot because typically robots are KO'd when large amounts of KE are transferred between the two robots and something breaks. Because of physics your robot will take just as much KE as the other robot. This also causes wear and damage to the robot. OOTA'ing a robot requires two things, a flipper or lifter and manhandleing the other robot to get it close enough to the wall that it can be oota'd. Which is a very hard thing to do and every time a flipper robot flips it puts the same force back into itself that it puts into flipping the other robot which once again causes stress an wear on the robot. So that only leaves the pit. To pit a robot it simply involves hitting the pit button and manhandleing the other robot down it. All your robot needs is a powerful drivetrain and thick armor. Which is much simpler than any other weapon and therefore has less potential to go wrong. Yes you will take damage but it is potentially the fastest method of winning a fight. Personally if it was avalible in US arenas I'd use the pit.
If the RW production team thought a robot was unfair or cheap they could pull it from competition at anytime, disable/raise the pit or decide the winner with their "house robots". (which they did do)
1898
« on: August 15, 2011, 09:44:50 PM »
  It's almost done
1899
« on: August 15, 2011, 08:18:15 PM »
Yep with 4 bots so I'll be very busy. :P
1900
« on: August 15, 2011, 07:48:24 PM »
Last year there was a pseudo GTM member meeting at FI 2010. Me, Natef, MikeNCR, and ZipDragon64 were there. For the record GTM should be kept on GTM not IRL.
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