I always hated that the bots with the most complex, awesome looking shit were nearly nonfunctional while the simple ass ones were the best.

>>73058
Pretty true. More complexity means more things that can go wrong, and sensitive electronics being flipped all over the place by a wedge can really do more damage than you would think. Same goes for rammers.

>>73058
It's Occam's Razor dude

>>73058
fuck yeah the simple ones kicked ass biohazard won 8 heavyweight championships and it was just a little box with a flipper.

>>73058
Like Grant's from Mythbusters. I always thought it was a great design. Small and flat, hard to flip, looks really solid, simple yet effective choice of weaponry, completely concealed.

>>73064
God damn that's gorgeous.

Have to wonder what the 'myth' was, though.

>>73065
It was before he was in Mythbusters. He used to be in the competitions.

>>73055
god dam nostalgia

I remember this one battle, where it was essentially a GIANT sawblade with wheels vs. a gyrobot with 3 spinning hammers going at super speed. One of the hammers connected with the side of the sawblade within the first few seconds and just demolished the other bot. I've always wondered how they could pair two bots together when it was so painfully obvious which one would win.

Ziggo= bestest

>>73066
Dude. I want a link to his fights.

Sir Killalot was god-tier house robot.

How exciting was it when one of the competing robots would try to take on a house robot.

>>73081
Here's the first one I came across:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpITt8YZWgo

Just search "deadblow robot" on Youtube.

oh god, this thread made me look up some videos of old battles, and I never even noticed until today that the crowd was never actually cheering.

3:03 for an example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVa1xoULF1k


also, those traps on the floor were cool

>>73083
Awesome.
I always loved this show but I can never find a torrent or anything.

>>73078
Bitch please

>>73099
>>73078
oh come on, hypnodisk was lame. Razer is where it's at. It's simple and it looks bad ass and it ate those flipper boxes for breakfast.

>Battlebots

Jesus Christ, man. You have no idea what deep nostalgia you have put me into tonight. I am now fourteen years old again, hanging out with my best friend playing Tony Hawks after watching this particular show.

>>73058

Complex designs are likelier to fail than simpler designs just because there are so many ways they can fuck up.

>>73064

>Grant

That motherfucker is going to start the robot apocalypse.

I'm telling you people, just watch. When the Terminator steps on your neck you'll have Grant to thank for it.

>>73120
>>73120
this.
Razer>Chaos 2>Hypnodisc>everyone else
ahhhhh nostalgia

Blendo here to tear up this entire damn thread.

I want to see these guys versus ASIMO. That little fucker has got moves now a days.

Alternatively, ASIMO versus BigDog. It would be awesome to watch ASIMO try to bullride BigDog

>>73077
I'm gonna say nightmare vs son of wyachi, from the second to last season when he was still a heavyweight. That was a hilarious match. My favorite is still hazard vs t minus. The hype was so obvious leading in, but it was still awesome to see that bumper get stuck in the blade. So satisfying.

http://www.youtube.com/user/BBCRobotwarsUK
every uk episode of robot wars
they're in parts and shitty quality, but I couldn't find them enywhere else

>bitches don't remember atomic wedgie

I remember this one was really simple it just had wheels and basically this really heavy spinning drum and it would hit the other bot with the drum and just send it flying because this thing was spinning at like 8000 rpm or something

>Have robot shoot thermite spray like maybe thermite with glue or something?
>Robot uses its flamethrower
>Watch other robot burn like crazy

dont know if this is allowed though

I went and saw robot wars live when I was younger. Got a foam hand signed by the razer team, hypodisk team and the panic attack team.

There was this one flipper robot that fucking flipped this little faggot one (Phoenix or some shit) across the entire fucking arena.

>>73082
Fuck yes sir killalot. I made and took a sir killalot banner to robot wars for that fucker. Shame he broke down on his way onto the arena. I never saw him fight ;_;

>>73064
didn't Jamie do robots too?

>>73274
He made that soda machine robot for the commercial, right?

Is there Microbeweight?

>>73248
No projectiles. Fire is acceptable, as long as it's a VERY small tank. (think Bic lighter.)

God dammit every time I start reading more about all the mythbusters guys they only become my heros more.

>>73192
Banned in Britain, I mean Robot Wars

Only one other show could touch Battlebots

>>73274
Yup, see :>>73192

The damn thing got honorary placements due to it's habit of sending shrapnel from the other robots over the safety glass.
It was beautiful.

>>73288
That show was just silly.

"Oh WOW! It looks like both teams just happened to find fully-functioning boat motors!"

It would have been great if they didn't plant the engines and other essential parts.

Anyway, I had a bunch of the Battle Bots toys when I was younger. I had the arena with all the traps and the robutts with the handles that you fought with in the arena. They were neat.

>>73082
Sir Killalot would fuck everything in the ring, if you know what i mean... But he's going over the allowed maximal weight and that's why he's a House Robot.

>>73292
yeah the junkyard premise seemed a little tacked on. I would of prefered a show with two groups of engineers, two warehouses and a sort of communal pool of scrap parts. none of the junkyard diving crap, just a layout of old cars appliances and scrap metal. focus more on the engineering than the "junkyard" part.

Okay so, remote control car, with a gun.

>>73289

I don't think you can get a much better design than blendo. The only way you could win a match against it is if it had some sort of technical problem, and in that regard it was a very well sorted bot. Maybe a bit hard to control, but you don't really need to have that much control over it.

I mean, it's a big spinning wedge. It's got a gas motor for the dome so it doesn't suck down batteries, and doesn't have the finicky drive systems of your disc/barrel bots, but it still has stupid offense. The sides (I hesitate to call them skirts) are pretty low and that combined with the teeth on the bottom makes it pretty much impossible to get under, and I doubt you could go through the top even if you could safely get within range.

Let me think of some other notable ones...

>Nightmare/any other vertical disc since they are all the same
I always liked these because they were fun to watch when they were driven right, but they all had shitty shit defense, not to mention every time we've seen those damn belts break and the whole thing become useless.
>Wedges/rammers/simple lifters
How good these are is entirely dependent on how well the internals are designed. Otherwise as long as you have low ground clearance, self righting/runs upside down and enclosed wheels, it's a good design.
>That one in battlebots with the three horizontal spinning hammers and the crawler feet
I can't spell their name, and don't feel like looking it up because I always got the impression that the team was run by the world's biggest cunt. Matching uniforms? Using crawler feet to get by regulations?

Oh, and I know I'm not the only one here that watched robotica.

>>73297
Best thing I remember happening when Sir Kill-a-lot was actually lifted off the ground slightly by Firestorm III, or was is IV, point is one of them.

If I remember right Firestorm flipped his opponent, then when Sir Kill-a-lot came to grab it he went for him too.
>>73120
I always felt sorry for anyone who went up against Razor because that thing was unstoppable. You couldn't damage it's armor, you couldn't stop it's claw, and you couldn't flip or push it around.

You.were.fucked.

that saw or whatever the fuck it is seems pretty weak, ever seen those carbide or abrasive saws that they put on chop saws to cut up metal? they should use one of those

The six-legged Mechadon was pimp. The only thing wrong with it is that the guys seemed to spend more effort on designing it than learning to pilot it to its fullest potential.

I noticed that a lot, actually. Really solid designs would fail due to operator clumsiness that could have been ironed out with a bit more practice time at the controls.

Holy shit. So much nostalgia

>>73333
yeah remember that snake thing he built in the later seasons? it was like the heaviest bot in the competition, but i don't think he ever got it to move under its own power. Interesting design concept, but terrible execution.

i like how this thread has gone completely off of actually making a little battlebot

>>73367

yeah /diy/ has gotten pretty shitty,replies are really slow and theres a bunch of pricks on here, this is what happens when man gets a gift from god (moot)

we've taken /diy/ and SOILED IT, SOILED IT, SOILED IT, SOILED IT, SOILED IT

>>73375
Agreed. It's annoying, too, because I love the concept of a /diy/ board.

Anyway I'd try to salvage this thread but I have no technical knowhow.

>>73375
Why don't you go ahead and take a stroll to /cgl/ and then come back and talk to me about off topic threads.

That board is for "cosplay and elegant gothic lolita", just in case you aren't able to figure it out while you are there.

Okay, then, /diy/. How about a wedge that could topple Sir Killalot? Two flippers. One, fast, with compressed air and one powerful, with motor-driven carjack?

>>73378

I dont think it would be that complex to build one

1. Plan as in draft your design with your specifications, you could do this by hand or if you had a fancy computer program to do this you could do that aswell, also you should probably have a think tank for this stage, find some dudes that are good with mechanics and shit

2. Prototype it

3. If it works build it for reals

4. Trial and error, see what works and what doesnt

5. More trial and error

6. TRIAL AND ERROR

6. ?????

7. Profit

>>73383

you are the HIV slowly infecting this board with your shit

What would such a fun cost, anyway?

whats the rule on flamethrowers and fire? could you have like a small bottle of oxygen and a small bottle of acetylene and have a fucking cutting torch on that bad boy?

>>73399
IIRC it was legal. Could have sworn I saw a few bots besides the house bots with fire.

>>73400

Pro deisgn = have bot with a claw that grabs the other bot, have oxy-acetylene cutting torch, torch the fuck out of him while you just hold him with your claw

Am I the only one that despised the bots that could only flip their opponents over?

>>73411
Seems to be the most efficient tactic. It's hard to make a mechanism like a hammer or saw that physically damages the opponent with enough effectiveness while still maintaining a reasonable level of parts and simplicity.

>>73099
Is it just me, or does Hypno-Disc look like a record player?

Battlebots Season 1-2 for your enjoyment, /diy/. Just add the code to the end of a pastebin link to get to the downloads

8jV1tB0r

Would a captive bolt pistol count as a projectile?

Man I love Battlebots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJYbKqZNPGo&feature=related

I always wanted to just have a few small firearms mounted to the roof of a fast mover. It wouldn't exactly be safe to have around a crowd, though.

>beetleweight

The motors would be spinning in opposite directions as the offensive/defensive tactic, so the bot would spin about the axis. Turn the motors as you would any tank bot to move. The wheels should be larger and closer together for better defense, but idgaf, I'm on my phone. Just jam the controllers and antenna anywhere about the motor/battery body.

>>73464
Meant antweight. Could work in any light class, though. Can't be flipped, and still has defense/offense with one blown wheel and or motor.

>>73464
I have attempted to refine your basic concept, i have added a little spin of my own. this was the best i could come up with in 10 minutes.

>>73483
forgot pic.

this looks good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Cuj21GtZE&feature=related

>>73464
one major fault i noticed in your design was that a verical blade could destroy your batteries/circuitry. i attepted to correct that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh6NYGrhohE&feature=related

fuck yeah

>>73492
Hazard was the best.
If only a turbine engine had been used for the blades...

>>73492
This is the problem Battlebots had near the end.
Everything just became so refined that it was always one type of bot dominating every other type and the battles were always over in a matter of seconds.

>>73517
Refined has got nothing to do with that video, the other bot just had a stupid fucking design.

I'm surprised the treads weren't the first thing to get completely ripped apart.

Built and entered an antweight when I was sixteen to run with some local hobbyists. Iron Sheep was glorious, albeit terrible. Simple rammer with some steel wool. Did all right, though I managed to burn out a motor halfway through a match and had to withdraw.

Still, you'd be surprised at who does this. Engineering students love it, and I'm debating getting a group started in my area.

>>73541
Can someone give me a link or two to some good sites for building these tiny robutts that you guys are discussing? They seem really neat.

>>73541
lol if somone had an outward facing 9volt battery you could set the steel wool on fire.

>>73543
antweightrobots.com

They've got some all-right resources for people starting out. Mostly British, but good info. Really, once you get the basics (how to build something that moves and can be controlled by you), you start experimenting. I built a little Nightmare clone.

Being sixteen at the time, I didn't think to properly design it. The axle holding the blade in place snapped, and the disc shot off and nearly broke the safety cage. It was hilarious. Then his wireless controller got fried, so I junked him and never built another.

. . . fuck it, I'm getting a league together now.

>>73548
I've got an RC tank. Could I use the controls and receiver from the tank for the robutt, assuming it's 40Mhz?

Damn. Now I want to form a group and participate in this, but I have no idea how to go about creating a group or finding competitions or anything.

>>73548
Can you take a picture of your Nightmare? Pretty please?

Same goes for anyone in the thread--I would LOVE to see your creations.

>>73565
Same here. Are there communities for this?

so guys, how does one start a robot league?

>>73577
Step 1. Think of a clever name.

Step 2. Make forums.

Step 3. Gather interest from here, /g/, /m/, etc.

Step 4. Wait.

Step 5. Users have robots and can now find each other locally.

Step 6. Host tournaments.

Titanboa needs to get polished up with a more effective and powerful drive system, and then have a go at it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocyhbij9JYQ

>>73585
So. I guess that's our cue to start thinking of a clever name?

>>73598
Only one coming to mind for me is Robottalion. Which is a horrible, horrible pun.

>>73603
>pun

no. Portmanteau. Level up, slut.

>>73603
I'm thinking Iron Legion. It doesn't make any sense, and 4chan kind of hates legion, but it just sounds cool.

>>73598
Robotni/k/s?

>>73610
I was thinking something with /diy/ in it, though /k/ does seem fitting.

>>73620
/diy/mond dozen?

>trollmode

Destructive Intense Yeomen.

>>73569
Well, not a battlebot, but sure looks like one:

The Chum Chucker, a robot designed for the FIRST FRC 2010 competition, Breakaway.

120 pounds of pure badass orange. Kicked soccer balls with an approximate arc height of 16 inches, with a pneumatic kicker mechanism. Drives pretty damn fast too, at roughly 12 feet per second at it's max speed. He's also able to climb steep grades of up to 45 degrees.

He. Will. Fuck. You. Up.

>>73662
Oh, forgot to mention:

I did help build him. I installed the electrical systems on the machine, while a friend of mine did most of the plumbing.

I was also a backup driver for Chummy, who is just so freaking easy to use.

anyone here got torrents for this shit all eps packs w.e that are not with 0 or 1 seeder? on decent connection ?

>>73484
I see what you mean, but wouldn't being a sphere leave it prone to just falling to one side?

A case can be added to cover the internals, but I left it our for clarity. I'd probably go with a slightly smaller rubber ball hollowed out if weight/heat would allow for it. If spike weapons still prove to be an issue, kevlar should help with impact resistance.

I wouldn't want the balls touching, though, because that would be gay.

fuck, i remember a game, was for pc.
anyone know the name of it? it was battlebots or battle bots themed, all i can remeber is a weapon you got from bossfights, a switchblade thingie

Chaos 2 was always a shit load of fun to watch. If I remember correctly it was the first robot to flip another out of the arena in robot wars, then its signature finishing move was to flip the other nigga out the arena. Then people started to build self-righting robots.

>>73662
Hell yeah, FIRST! Was it able to hang?

>>73736
Well, yes, and no.

We had an arm ready for an off season competition in Indiana (IRI) and got to use it.. twice.

The first time, we started the lift before time ran out, and the second time it lifted all the way... then fell, killing the cRIO.

Another team was kind enough to lend us theirs though, a good thing too, because that allowed us to continue playing.

>>73743
Ah, yeah. Our arm worked about as well. We hung once, but doing so broke our hanging mechanism pretty badly. The hang was the best thing to happen to us that year though.

I wish finding a team to do battlebots type stuff was as easy as finding a FIRST team though.

What do you think would be the legality of a wedge-type bot with a cutter at the top of the ramp, ala Jaws of Life?

The bot would get up under the opponent and push them against the wall, then activate the jaws, crushing/cutting the opponent bot

A wedge bot with a vertical buzzsaw ontop.

Fuck yes or fuck yes?

I seem to recall one nasty bot with a single overhead swinging pike powered by a garage door spring. You got hit with that thing, game over.

>>73901

yeah that seems like a pretty good design, I wonder if you could use hydraulics or compressed air and make it even stronger

Did any of you ever actually read the rules for competition in Robot Wars? There were weight classes, and you could go over weight classes if you were a walking/bi-pedal bot Vs. an efficient four wheeled one.

Sir Killalot was a house robot, but he wasn't just grandfathered in because of it. Once you get to Super Heavyweight class, the only thing limiting your robot's weight is the ability to fit through the doors. Literally. If you could create a robot efficient and powerful enough to be made of lead and fit through the doors, it could lay over on other robots and just crush them.

You also could not use projectiles. No nail guns, no thermite, no adhesives, no magnetic weapons. Any projectiles had to be tethered to your bot. So, you could have a lasso using robot, or a net firing robot. But not a thermite, glue or acoustic blaring robot.

You could also make Composite Bots. That is, more than one person could steer more than one robot on one team, but the two robots could not go over the weight class. Effectively halving your weight/power but doubling the actions your team could take.

Batteries, liquid coolants/fuels/lubricants had to be positioned and protected to where they wouldn't leak all over the ring, creating engineering challenges for bot hygiene.

I wish I had the money for this stuff. I had a nice theory for a sure-fire win bot.

It's a Combo-bot. Two autonomous robots that are attached to the same body. Completely legitimate for the Robot Wars rules, as so long as the bot can fit through the doors, it meets super-heavyweight status. And if it's on legs and not treads or wheels, that effectively doubles even the liberal status. So theoretically a super-super heavyweight could fight in the medium or heavyweight leagues.

The bottom half would be tank treaded, I'm thinking. Built like a bulldozer or a crane. Lots of room and mass for hydraulics.
The top half would be a humanoid torso. The hands and wrists would be outfitted with finger individual hydraulic claws, with heavy heavy armoring on the forearms and elbows.

In theory the manual dexterity, the deflecting defenses, the ability to reach, grab, squeeze, poke, push, pull and flip an enemy bot would make it very much like a gorilla on treads Vs. anything. The super-heavyweight status being only to add counterweights and to fit in an oversized, overdeveloped hydraulic claw power system.

>>74088

Good luck getting the controls and electronics for those arms to work properly without breaking when some disc bot comes up and slaps your shit.

>>73693
It would be weighted as to always return to it's wheels if it's knocked over. furthermore the outward facing spades on the spikes would allow of a weapon that is impossible to avoid while attacking. the hemispheres would rotate in different directions at maximum rpm. the effect would be little different than 2 spinning sawblades in an "orbit" around the sphere.
Sry for late reply