the robotting begins again

first round changes for flippin' heck:
- flipped the wheel motors around so the center of mass is slightly in front of the wheels instead of behind them
- moved the wheels out a bit to reduce risk of rubbing against the hull if misaligned slightly
- inset the front a bit, also for extra clearance for the scoop in case of misalignment
- not shown in this picture, but the wheel guards (loops of spring wire going out from the front to rear corners) are getting reinforcement of some sort at their mounting points, after the "got tangled in an opponent, stopped the match, spent several minutes untangling them, then immediately did the same thing again" incident last time

#theWorkshop #combatRobotics
@dkozlov

Amusing misCATegorization.

This post showed up on my Misskey (Iceshrimp) Antenna for Robotic Combat, which means one of the configured keywords - that I associated with
#combatrobotics - had to appear.

I couldn't figure it out by glancing so I did grep-in-a-loop and found the culprit was
MRCA. As in MRCAtrickSwayze.
MRCA

Midwest Robot Combat Association - Ant weight (1lb) combat robot tournament league

MRCA
The March competition from #NHRL inspired me to crunch numbers.

It's not much, but it's a thing. Maybe more thing come later.

gitlab.com/jbt/nhrl_stats

#combatrobotics
John / NHRL Stats · GitLab

GitLab.com

GitLab
Settling in for some #PrimeTime viewing on a 2-hour delay. Really looking forward to it. Don't spoil it for me too badly!

#NHRL #CombatRobotics
smashy robot day :3
#combatrobotics
huzzah, two whole grams under the weight limit

#combatrobotics
robot not fitting together quite right after minor dimensional changes?

try biting a chunk out of your motor mounts

you will certainly not regret biting a chunk out of your motor mounts

#theWorkshop #combatRobotics
Any other #CombatRobotics fans watching the Emirates hosting the British (a la #RobotsLive) putting on an American-style (specifically #BattleBots -style) tournament? The way the announcers & production are being done is more appropriate and, IMO, 100x better than what the Russians did last week ( #BitvaRobotov ).

#GamesOfTheFuture #GOTF #BattleOfRobots
Telling an interpreter to do it live, without seemingly giving her a background primer on how #CombatRobotics works first, is honestly kind of crazy.

But I'm glad they did it. The alternative was zero English. And that would've been a little harder to understand - there are things I would've missed for sure.

It also would've been cool if the production team took a little time to become aware of what combat robotics is and why people watch also, but, you know, government work and all that.

vkvideo.ru/video-219465931_456241090

#BitvaRobotov
TIL about the Bitva Robot tournament. And that its finals are this weekend.

bitvarobotov.tech

Or if an auto-translate-to-English is more your speed:
That page has links to cost-free video on VK.


bitvarobotov-tech.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true

I would, of course, be rooting for Black Dragon. And since Black Dragon has previously competed on Battle Bots, that justifies the hashtag.

#CombatRobotics #RoboticCombat #Bitva #BattleBots
Чемпионат «Битва роботов»

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