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Re: Epic Robotics

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Famous last words, part II
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i want to see this thing in action at full tilt though im expecting things to explode
how hard can it be???
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I could sense my name being used. Just been watching the AWS live stream.

RefAnt and KatKin can be seen on Gary's site here http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g0xan/sac/pictures.htm

Back in the days of servo's it was a squeeze, but Katkin ran on 4 micro servos with a stripped down RX and very tame disc motor. It was more a show piece than a full on fighter.

RefAnt was just a concept Gary and I had that we put into place, I guess with current tech it could be made a whole lot smaller.

Speak soon guys.

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And here's a video of it. Sorry about the music.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSOmAm_x5-4
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Scott how's entropy going after I broke the self right / blade thing ?(sorry about that,I saw it rebroke straight away in the next fight)
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You didn't break it; it appears that the self-righting servo was twitching when the disk was spinning. If it twitched badly enough, the disk would catch on the top of the armour flap and jam the whole thing up. Not sure what's causing it, but I suspect a power dip from a BEC somewhere. Quite peculiar.

Outside of that I'm fairly happy with how it performed, though. The good hits it did get in the fights where it didn't self-destruct worked as planned; causing some good damage and throwing robots away without also throwing itself in the opposite direction.
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Until it broke quite a few people thought it would come close to winning
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Since Post-AWS roundups seem to be all the rage, I thought I'd do one!

Void: Reliable as always, unfortunately it still loses against anything which it can't control, which is normally things with huge wheels or which can get around to the side, as I'm quite slow at turning. I have 7g or so spare on it, so I'm looking at possibly saving a little bit of weight elsewhere and bodging a servo into the top of the flipper to grab people. This should tide me over until I want to build a new version.

Entropy: As I've said, the hits it did get were excellent, and the one time it lost without destroying itself was against what I knew it would lose to, so I can accept that. Its a bit frustrating that the weapon jammed itself twice in a way which didn't show up during testing, but at least I know what was causing it now. I have an idea to keep the weaponry the same while removing one of it's core weaknesses, but that requires a full rebuild.

EmberStorm: Utterly undrivable. I was using the new Deltang RX65 board, and while I absolutely love how compact and powerful it is, it's designed for cars, not robots. Because of that, the outputs don't brake when the sticks return to the centre; they coast instead, which makes it tricky to drive, as it ends up carrying on forwards when you expect it to stop. I've e-mailed David at Deltang and he says he'll look at adding a brake option into the programming options for the future, but for now I'll just replace it with something else.
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EmberStorm was great. I'd love you to keep it going and get it under control. The fight against Anticide was one of the best of the day til it drove out.
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Re: Epic Robotics

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i watched the vid of this and im suprised entropy didnt decimate everything and i too loved ember storm would love to see how the insides are laid out though i have never heard of the control bord you used though after looking into it i thinki might have to get something similar for chaos theory (my chaos 2 toy mod )
how hard can it be???
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