On the EM flipper vs. Inductive magnetic rule. I always interpreted the EM/Inductive rule to mean using induction to heat or EM to surge the other robots electronics (weapons like that), I don't see anything wrong with say a solonoid pulling down a sprung flipper and releasing it. If we were going to say no to electromagnets involvement in weapons then we'd have no motors to use
And on the walker front you can actually have say an arduino read the PWM signals from the trainer port of a transmitter then fiddle them for the robot before it uses it's own small 2.4GHz transmitter to talk to the robot. Or just have the arduino (one of the REALLY small clones probably) in the robot which would be easier.
Recall mark setrakians snake using a servo puppet to control his big snake. That be intresting to do. My thoughts were also to hack a blade and replace the control pots with my signal outputs. The pwm might be neater tho.
I agree with Alex that a solenoid powered or triggered flipper/lifter does not fall into the category of inductive/magnetic weapons. If it did, we would have to ban all the servo-powered lifters as well!
You can do whatever signal processing you like before or after sending PWM signals to the robot. However, there is a rule that all transmitters have to comply with the relevant CE directives, so best not to muck about with the actual signal modulation. Putting some "intelligence" between the controls and the transmitter or in the robot between the receiver and the speed controllers is absolutely fine.
I wish my robots had some intelligence between the receiver and the speed controllers - it might help to compensate for my poor driving!
I would like to see flying robots banned. New technology (micro drones and such) means what used to be a highly novel idea is now completely possible and I think it should be nipped in the bud before we have a silly cluster of where half of it just hovers for 3 mins. I know it probably wouldn't win if its main body is wiped out but it would be a tedious waste of time running the battle out.
