I'm very late on this but I wanted to give some updates on SMIDSY as well as talk about how the event in Manchester went.
So as previously mentioned SMIDSY went to Manchester back in April. We finally got SMIDSY running even if it did still have some drive issues. We fought a total of 2 fights with 1 we had to pull out of. This wad still exciting for us and even getting SMIDSY to work is an accomplishment.
Our first fight was against Fenrir a wedge bot built by the Chimeta team. We knew we were going to lose this fight as the wedge of Fenrir was going to have an easy job getting under us. I tried to go for the sides of Fenrir where they had parts sticking out to help it not get stuck on it's end. Unfortunately we were too slow in trying to get round to the side and Fenrir just turned around to get us wedged up again. We lost the weapon quite early on as the weld on the pulley broke. We eventually died due to the removable link bring knocked out. The house robot picked us up at the end bending the poly carb but luckily that didn't hinder us for the rest of the day.
SMIDSY during the fight
So we were out of the competition rounds but luckly we had 2 more whiteboard matches. Before these we made some quick repairs as well as charging the battery. Due to the weapon puppy breaking during the first fight we switched it to a new motor entirely. Our next planned fight was against crackers n smash and Eric. Unfortunately while being loaded up we noticed SM IDSY's drive was not working. It was twitching but no movement. We backed out and took it apart and we found.A GLOVE some idiot (probably me) left a glove inside the robot and it got tangled in the drive. We were eventually able to pick it our and the VIPs got a kick out of out struggles.
SMIDSY before we pulled out
Our final fight was against 2point0 and Lunatic.
Spoiler alert didn't go well for us. Our battery charger was bust form some unknown reason. This meant out batteries were not fully charged for the fight causing us too die quite early on in the fight. We were picked up by the house robot again bending the poly carb even more but it was yet another attack that did not effect us. And with that we were finished for the weekend.
It despite being an unsuccessful event was still lots of fun. We sustained little secret damage from the event and I got too meet the builder of Orc Wars's Slapshot with his HW Dead Bod.
More images from the event
Me. God I'm ugly
b b b b Back shot
Glove entanglement When?
As for the second piece of news which is a little sad at least for the team.
Dave Smith founder of Ace robotics, has decided too retire from building robots. We appreciate all he has done for us. He has made my dream of being involved in robot combat by letting me have SMIDSY and we wish the best for him.
As previously mentioned SMIDSY in it's current state has got many issues specifically to do with the drive although we were able to get it working after we took it apart for repairs after the event. We plan to get new weaponry soon although it will be basic. Going for a series 7 style wedge.
We have another event coming up this year and we hope too share some more about that event when it comes around :)
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