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« on: May 23, 2018, 05:02:14 PM »
For plastics, you should look at HDPE or UHMW. They'll be more expensive than wood, but will be miles better in terms of performance. A simple wood wedge stands no chance, a simple HDPE/UHMW wedge can withstand a ton of punishment. It will be more expensive but should save you money of your internals getting chucked across the arena repeatedly. HDPE is cheap, and can sometimes be bought as cutting boards at shops. UHMW is slightly stiffer, slightly tougher, and fairly pricier. Because it's worth saying also, 3D printing is irrelevant at the featherweight scale for structure or armor. For internal supports and guards, it's nice. For spinning weapons, you'll probably want some kind of metal supports, especially in the featherweight class. You'll need the ability to make or modify pulleys, the ability to make a balanced spinning weapon, and aligned weapon supports so it can run freely. These are all hard to get without precision tools, or without paying shops to make the parts. I think you're at the level where it would do you well to check out the Riobotz design guide and poke around on the FRA forums or facebook groups just to pick up some common practices and design styles. This isn't the most beginner guide to building things, but it is the most extensive! http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-your-Everything-Really-Really-Fast/
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« on: May 13, 2018, 02:42:43 PM »
I may have been born too early to travel the galaxy. I may have been born too late to explore the uncharted earth, but I was born at the right time to see Huge get on BattleBots.
He still uses uhmw. That gets shredded in antweights. Watching now, he just beat SubZero.
I mean steel does too. It's all in the thicknesses. haven't seen the episode cause i dont have cable. i'll see if discovery puts up the episodes in a week or something
but what the nuts is this
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why would you put really blatant terrible photoshop on the front page of your site
God I wish I knew. It's the Yeti forks grafted on
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« on: May 07, 2018, 10:59:40 PM »
Huge time is now
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« on: May 07, 2018, 10:51:46 PM »
if SB doesnt win this hes off my friends list
deal
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« on: May 05, 2018, 02:52:21 PM »
Agreed. Anybody else? Kyle on Bale Spear was here forever ago, Alex helped with SubZero and was too
ray has an account here, technically ... 
Pass, rumble is full, sorry Ray
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« on: May 05, 2018, 08:53:10 AM »
Agreed. Anybody else? Kyle on Bale Spear was here forever ago, Alex helped with SubZero and was too
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« on: May 01, 2018, 02:05:06 PM »
We've had a 30lb smotherbot at some of our local events too, always a fan favorite.
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« on: April 30, 2018, 04:29:29 PM »
Team leader, guy featured in the solo photo. Also yesssssss. PikaHuge? SpongeHuge? HugeBob? Hugechu? that one sounds like a sneeze.
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« on: April 30, 2018, 03:53:03 PM »
ahhh my bad my bad
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« on: April 30, 2018, 03:36:44 PM »
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« on: April 22, 2018, 08:29:36 PM »
Nahhh I'm 10 in June
what am I doing with my life
well whatever it is it got you on national tv so 
I'm all grown up 
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« on: April 21, 2018, 11:14:16 AM »
Nahhh I'm 10 in June
what am I doing with my life
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« on: April 20, 2018, 11:37:28 PM »
why dont you guys just pick good names then you never have to change
Dumb joke 10 years ago Dumb joke now Stickin with it
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« on: March 03, 2018, 11:47:11 AM »
I'm super pumped someone actually made it in RA2. Hope it works as good in game
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« on: March 03, 2018, 10:19:00 AM »
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge
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« on: December 09, 2017, 12:31:39 PM »
Thoughts from someone who's never built a hobby weight or a wedge, just feather and beetle spinners.
25-30 is gonna be rough to control, so practice will be needed. You may also need magnets to be able to get to speed quickly rather than just doing mad burnouts. Not sure of any kits but a 4wd brick shouldn't be hard to put together. As for a bludgeon, whatever you put together should be very very solid, so the front should effectively act like a bludgeon either way. Whether it is a wedge or a flat brick. Putting something on that is really solid just means you need a really really solid mount for it so it doesn't absorb all of the force of a spinner hit and just get blown off the robot.
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« on: November 14, 2017, 08:53:12 PM »
Most of my stuff comes from either supplier websites (NPC, VEX), Grabcad (Ampflow, some Banebots stuff), or McMaster. Hobbyking will provide drawings if you're nice and ask, but it's really just easiest to buy a motor and CAD it yourself from them. Otherwise, asking around in FB groups, since usually somebody has made any given model before.
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« on: November 05, 2017, 12:17:45 PM »
You're probably thinking the AceUplink (AU) Battlebots mod
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« on: October 23, 2017, 07:37:06 PM »
can we all for a moment just gaze in awestruck wonder that lra2 managed to avoid being banned for 8 years
I think it happened at some point and he just kept squelching back in so often that we all dealt with it. Ah the good old days. When you could write off all his BS because he was like 9.
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« on: September 20, 2017, 09:49:36 PM »
Oh hey how's it goin
Pika pika
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'm readyyyyyyy
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