Noodle's Showcase

[R0B0SH4RK]

Step 1) Take a look at R4 (the BBEANS 5 splash will do).
Step 2) Notice the two long white things coming out the top? Those are the "ears."
Step 3) ?????
Step 4) Profit.

[Noodle]

Yeah I know I said I wouldn't work on my robot anymore tonight.  I lied (rather, I got bored :P ).

I managed to get one "ear" on it just shy of the weight limit (the samurai sword is useful, who knew?).  It has made a noticeable difference.  It still can't help me beat Wide Cut.  I don't know how, but that stupid thing tears this robot apart.

[Noodle]

Here's a robot I just sort of made up on the spot without and premeditated designing or anything.  I first built the super compact DSA chassis which could house two-wheel drive, two blacks, and 4 snappers and didn't know what to do with it.  So, I just put four spinners on it and name it Seal of Approval.  For something I didn't plan, it's a pretty good robot, however I keep having an annoying problem where robots (even if they're not remotely wedge shaped) can get under it and start gut ripping it.  This is why I have that stupid wedge appendage (which does little to fix the problem).   If this doesn't happen, Seal of Approval almost always wins.

I'm open to any suggestions or constructive criticism, as usual.

[Pwnator]

Not bad as a concept, but could be better (especially the wedge).

If you learn how to snapper load, you can get the motors onto 2 Snapper2s so you can upgrade to 4WD.

[Naryar]

Probably would be better with only 2 spinners, a double wedge and 4WD, yeah.

[Noodle]

Not bad as a concept, but could be better (especially the wedge).

If you learn how to snapper load, you can get the motors onto 2 Snapper2s so you can upgrade to 4WD.

I know how to snapper load.  How do you think I fit everything in the first place?

Probably would be better with only 2 spinners, a double wedge and 4WD, yeah.

I'm gonna try doing that, although I'm not entirely certain how I will.

[Pwnator]

Oh yeah. Forgot that you snapper loaded the drive. XD

Anyway, with 2 of the Snapper 2s, attach your weapon motors onto it (a 20cm extender for each snapper would do fine). For the other 2 Snapper2s, use them for wedges (though you probably have to attach them externally so they can be symmetrical).

[Noodle]

Yay for builder's block!  That was... two months?  You may have noticed some of the pictures disappeared, and that's because I organized my Photobucket account over that period of time.  I'll get about to fixing them some time later.

Anyway I finally got another bot.  I made the chassis a lot more airtight than I usually do.  This is due to the fact that I built like Joe once said he did (putting all the components down in a huge chassis and then trimming it down to fit) and that my grid mod helped LOADS.  I could tighten it up a bit more, but I just wanted to lay out the basic build first.

The resulting bot is Porcelain.  It's a bit of a concept; it's a horizontal spinner with something resembling a giant armored dustpan in the front.  It's got DSA, two stacked black batteries, 4 HP-Zteks, and two DDT's for the wedges.  The wheels and ram-pan are mounted on two blue snappers and the spinners on another two blue snappers.

While I thought the concept would work great, it's not as good as I thought.  It does a lot of damage but despite the armored ram-pan I find the robot lives up to it's name and is very fragile.

[Sage]

It's the extenders that make it fragile, plus only having 2 ramplates to protect the front really isn't a lot. See if you could mount the drive and stuff from the back of the front two snappers, and get rid of the two back snappers. Save a lot of weight for more weapons/armor.

[NFX]

...but there is only two snappers. I think. Are the other two buried inside the DDTs?
 
Trouble is, extenders and tribars have not much HP at all. You generally want to knock them away with your weapons before they get a chance to do damage (common 36HS), or clamp sideways onto their bots and apply continuous pressure to components until they drop off, something akin to Child's Play IV. Keeping them in a position where they can deal damage to your extenders generally isn't a good plan. Very nice concept though, but I don't think it's viab//le in competition.

[Sage]

@ NFX:
A trained eye might spot the little blue dot inside the HPZ in the top right of the last picture, as well as the extended chassis shape past the ends of the DDTs :)

[NFX]

......so there is. =] I should not have doubted the Stock Master.

[Noodle]

...but there is only two snappers. I think. Are the other two buried inside the DDTs?

Yes, they're buried inside of the drive motors.
I really should have made a picture with most of the stuff removed. :P

Trouble is, extenders and tribars have not much HP at all. You generally want to knock them away with your weapons before they get a chance to do damage (common 36HS), or clamp sideways onto their bots and apply continuous pressure to components until they drop off, something akin to Child's Play IV. Keeping them in a position where they can deal damage to your extenders generally isn't a good plan. Very nice concept though, but I don't think it's viab//le in competition.

The plan was to get them caught in the pan where they'd aimlessly grind their weapons on the ram plates while my spinners tore them up.  There were a few problem in executing this that are probably the reasons the robot failed.  First off, I ran out of weight faster than I thought, so my original plan to use smaller spinners on discs was cut.  The tribar spinners do more damage, but they don't get that constant grinding effect spinners on discs do (ie, the ones on a juggler).  Secondly, the pan isn't tall or strong enough to hold an enemy robot in place for a long period of time.

Anyway, I'm gonna get working on it after I fix all the pictures in this thread.

[Noodle]

So I've been in the botlab for about two hours, and this is what I came up with.  I somehow went from a dustpan to a juggler.  It was mostly a waste of time in my opinion.  I figured I'd showcase it 'cus it looks cool.

I guess the bot is an improvement, but it's still got loads of problems.  The wedges suck and the robot is too unstable and fast for me to drive.  It does do significant damage when it gets under a bot though, and the four razors perpendicular to each motor are well protected by the ram plates.

Anyway, I'm gonna have to take another whack at this obviously. :P

[Sage]

the razors on the sides arent doing anthing if they're under the ramplates...

[Noodle]

the razors on the sides arent doing anthing if they're under the ramplates...

Well they were hitting something because the still managed to get torn off sometimes. 

[Naryar]

Cool, and original.

Replace the side razors by maces maybe ? Or just put them into extenders so they are parallel to the other razors.

[NFX]

I <3 that robot.

I agree with Nar, maybe swap the perpendicular razors for maces, and try not to attach too much weight on the same burst you use for wedges, it makes them suck somehow.

[Noodle]

Well after a bit convincing from Sparkey and bit of thought applied to the subject, I've decided to give GTM another try.  Since there is no introduction section and the junkyard is more or less off limits I figured the best place to re-introduce myself would be in the thread where I introduced myself in the first place.  I'm not even sure if I'm going to be staying for a decent bit of time, and whether or not I do is probably going to be based on the state of things here and what my reputation with everyone else is.

On a more relevant note, I actually have a robot to present.  Also, not far from ordinary, its broken and I need some help. 

I spent a good couple hours putting this thing together, and since it's been some time since I created a robot I decided to keep it simple and do a HS.  Well, simple until I decided to put 36 maces on the thing.  All in all, it's got 4 weapon HPZs, 2 drive HPZs, 2 black batts, and two blue snappers for mounts.  I effed a bunch of stuff and got it all working right (supposedly).  Problem is that when I go to test it the robot does a bit of a mini-havoc and flips over.  Oddly enough, when flipped over, it doesn't keep havocing.  Any help with this is appreciated, I'd rather not completely disregard the design.




No idea why, but I've got the strangest feeling something bad is going to happen.

[Pwnator]

Try rubbers and see if it havoks less.