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Must admit have thought hammer bots had become a bit superceded by the power / kinetic energy race, but LoL'd at BETA.
Presumably when they said that guy had waited 14 years they meant waited to compete in America. Guess it's outside the puny UK rules. Hilarious when that and the other hammer bot chucked themselves about when the blow connected.
Presumably when they said that guy had waited 14 years they meant waited to compete in America. Guess it's outside the puny UK rules. Hilarious when that and the other hammer bot chucked themselves about when the blow connected.
FiF said:
Must admit have thought hammer bots had become a bit superceded by the power / kinetic energy race, but LoL'd at BETA.
Presumably when they said that guy had waited 14 years they meant waited to compete in America. Guess it's outside the puny UK rules. Hilarious when that and the other hammer bot chucked themselves about when the blow connected.
Basher in the UK, Beta outside (!?!?) - http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/BasherPresumably when they said that guy had waited 14 years they meant waited to compete in America. Guess it's outside the puny UK rules. Hilarious when that and the other hammer bot chucked themselves about when the blow connected.
"Due to exclusitivity clauses, Basher competes outside of Robot Wars under the name of Beta. Beta was originally built to compete in Season 5.0. of BattleBots, as the successor to their previous success, Killerhurtz. John Reid was joined by George Francis in this season. Beta's scheduled fight had it take on Bender, but the magnets within Beta's hammer were continually pulling up the flooring of the BattleBox, and thus, Beta were forced to withdraw."
FourWheelDrift said:
Basher in the UK, Beta outside (!?!?) - http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Basher
"Due to exclusitivity clauses, Basher competes outside of Robot Wars under the name of Beta. Beta was originally built to compete in Season 5.0. of BattleBots, as the successor to their previous success, Killerhurtz. John Reid was joined by George Francis in this season. Beta's scheduled fight had it take on Bender, but the magnets within Beta's hammer were continually pulling up the flooring of the BattleBox, and thus, Beta were forced to withdraw."
Thanks for that link. Digging down didn't realise Reid was the guy behind Killerhurtz, nor that he'd teamed with George Francis, nor Dave Moulds the guy behind Carbide and Cobalt. It explains sort of why it's taken him so many years and false starts."Due to exclusitivity clauses, Basher competes outside of Robot Wars under the name of Beta. Beta was originally built to compete in Season 5.0. of BattleBots, as the successor to their previous success, Killerhurtz. John Reid was joined by George Francis in this season. Beta's scheduled fight had it take on Bender, but the magnets within Beta's hammer were continually pulling up the flooring of the BattleBox, and thus, Beta were forced to withdraw."
FiF said:
Thanks for that link. Digging down didn't realise Reid was the guy behind Killerhurtz, nor that he'd teamed with George Francis, nor Dave Moulds the guy behind Carbide and Cobalt. It explains sort of why it's taken him so many years and false starts.
dig further into the links and you find....◾John Reid is the younger brother of experienced Le Mans and touring car driver Anthony Reid
SpamCan said:
I don't know what they have planned for entanglement nets and the likes in the next series but could kill off spinners entirely bringing everybody into flippers, whereas allowing armoured brick pushbots would not - but they are "boring" 
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I think that reading between the lines the entanglement devices allowed aren't nets etc, and can't join the two robots together. So you have to engineer snare a spinner then release it rather than covering the bot in netting..
From a design perspective I'm a fan of Yeti's design in battlebots. A powerful drum spinner which can also push well and the lifting fork gives it something different. I'd get rid of the exposed wheels (I liked the tidyness of the Aftershock drive layout when you saw it in the grand final) but keep the weaponry the same.
In terms of armour-I sometimes think the importance of thick plating is over-estimated. Once a spinner gets going it can slice into plating and you have to go to stupid lengths to stop it from doing so. Even then it's likely to rip it off the mountings and the weight of the bot goes up and up trying to counter it. I think a strong frame with the internals buried deep in the robot and a polycarbonate cover would be a better solution.Let the panels and the frame take the hits rather than having metal panels getting twisted into moving parts.
hairykrishna said:
defblade said:
All this talk of high quality engineering on Battlebots... then, last night, a bot wins mainly by having a garden rake gaffa taped on 
The robot with the rake (Hypershock) has a chassis made of ridiculously expensive, high fracture toughness, pre-preg carbon fibre.
That's entertainment!hairykrishna said:
It's not really shed engineering.
You're right, gaffa tape is driveway engineering. If they'd have had a shed available, they'd have used Araldite instead 
defblade said:
hairykrishna said:
defblade said:
All this talk of high quality engineering on Battlebots... then, last night, a bot wins mainly by having a garden rake gaffa taped on
The robot with the rake (Hypershock) has a chassis made of ridiculously expensive, high fracture toughness, pre-preg carbon fibre. That's entertainment!hairykrishna said:
It's not really shed engineering.
You're right, gaffa tape is driveway engineering. If they'd have had a shed available, they'd have used Araldite instead They do things a little differently in Japan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_xTvZCvuQ4
FourWheelDrift said:
They do things a little differently in Japan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_xTvZCvuQ4
Comedy, but soooo frustrating!Just want to chuck Tombstone in there and have at it.
cookie118 said:
SpamCan said:
I don't know what they have planned for entanglement nets and the likes in the next series but could kill off spinners entirely bringing everybody into flippers, whereas allowing armoured brick pushbots would not - but they are "boring"
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I think that reading between the lines the entanglement devices allowed aren't nets etc, and can't join the two robots together. So you have to engineer snare a spinner then release it rather than covering the bot in netting..
From a design perspective I'm a fan of Yeti's design in battlebots. A powerful drum spinner which can also push well and the lifting fork gives it something different. I'd get rid of the exposed wheels (I liked the tidyness of the Aftershock drive layout when you saw it in the grand final) but keep the weaponry the same.
In terms of armour-I sometimes think the importance of thick plating is over-estimated. Once a spinner gets going it can slice into plating and you have to go to stupid lengths to stop it from doing so. Even then it's likely to rip it off the mountings and the weight of the bot goes up and up trying to counter it. I think a strong frame with the internals buried deep in the robot and a polycarbonate cover would be a better solution.Let the panels and the frame take the hits rather than having metal panels getting twisted into moving parts.
Battlebots episode 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2So0nyi5fI
1st battle......KIN'ELL !!!!
1st battle......KIN'ELL !!!!
Edited by FourWheelDrift on Tuesday 29th May 17:23
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