Near Chaos Robotics

[MikeNCR]

Spanky is wired up and running. Weight is just a hair over 22lbs as pictured, leaving almost 8lbs for weapon configurations. The spike wedges are 1lb 3.4oz and will be used primarily with the axe and hammer weapons. I'm intending to armor up the chainsaw and circular saw attachments as heavily as the weight budget allows me.


Here's a finished shot with the high visibility paint job-

[Badnik96]

Dang those purple highlights just look awesome. Can't wait to see its attachments.

[MikeNCR]

Here's an internal shot, it's very tightly packed-

[MassimoV]

Well for sure ain't gonna tell you less empty space...

[Kossokei]

Here's an internal shot, it's very tightly packed-


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if you stacked the rads within each other, you could shrink the chassis and get DSA

Looks like a properly menacing bot, though I worry that it's susceptible to a decently built horizontal spinner

[R1885]

Here's an internal shot, it's very tightly packed-


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if you stacked the rads within each other, you could shrink the chassis and get DSA

Looks like a properly menacing bot, though I worry that it's susceptible to a decently built horizontal spinner

Meaningless because its for Dragoncon and Sportsman competitions.

[MikeNCR]

First test video with a placeholder attachment to avoid damaging the floor:

[MassimoV]

The overhead attack acyually looks way more controlled then I thought it was going to be.

[MikeNCR]

Still have to make the legs/feet for both configurations, but the weapons are coming along well-

[Badnik96]

Very nice. That chainsaw attachment looks especially nasty.

[MassimoV]

Looks sweet.

[MikeNCR]

Test spin of the chainsaw attachment:





Real gearboxes should ship mid week, which means I may have it properly working by next weekend.

[MikeNCR]

Finished up the last of the work on the active weapons today. The weight with the circular saw is 29lb 10.8oz and the weight with the chainsaw is 29lb 5.8oz. The axe attachment is done, and there's just a bit left to do on the hammer.

[Badnik96]

Sawblade looks pretty nasty, even though I know it won't be :P

[MassimoV]

Mini Dracolich or whatever it was called. Looks sweet.

[MikeNCR]

Figure it's time for a few updates.

First, meet Hypnus:



Hypnus will mainly be used at Dragon Con and for bot hockey. Still haven't settled on who will actually be driving it for either.

Second, the bot formerly known as testbot:



This will be driven at Dragon Con by John, who drives Reptar. Planning to use it for bot hockey as well.

Third, Nyx is due for a redesign. Here's the concept as of a few days ago:



In theory, it should take under 5 minutes to switch from any weapon to any other weapon. I'm planning to have all three active weapons ready for Motorama 2015.

[Badnik96]

Wait you own Testbot now? That's fairly awesome.

You also got Team Tiki's bot I see. Going to add anything to Testbot to make it work better for bot hockey (IE prongs to control the puck)?

[MikeNCR]

It's going to get Apollyon's spare wedge (after some modifications) and for the first version, will have a free swinging prong in the middle cavity that can catch the puck (or other bots) and let it drive them around. Eventually I'm intending to add a powered weapon to the middle cavity that'll have a similar structure. The Tikibot is getting some Apollyon style horns added at some point soon.

[MikeNCR]

Here's the full team as it sits-

[Jonzu95]

They're all awesome.