How to build a combat robot video

dont know if anyone has come accross this before but though id post it

http://revision3.com/systm/robots/http://revision3.com/systm/robots/

there are loads of episodes about different things
i found it interesting

thats the hardest way of removing a chuck off a drill i have ever seen lol, i just stick the chuck in the vice then turn the drill on so i will unscrew the chuck off

yeh i thought that

When was this made? Just looking at the retro intro graphics... I suspect that for most of the viewers, the 5 1/4 floppy disc was already obsolete before they were born.

hmm

well David has a robogames t-shirt and on the robogames website there is results which go back to 2004 but i think that year it was called robolympics and was named robogames from 2005 to now

but was added onto that page on 3rd march this year so is either brand new or copied from somewhere

he doesnt look to have aged either since we saw him in august 2007 so i think its a recent clip

Old or not, it is still applicable. Although I wouldnt take the chuck of a drill like that.

Actually, he mentions 2.4GHz so it cant be that old.

Well clearly it wasnt made in the 80s, just intrigued why they thought graphics of 5 1/4 floppies and something that looks like a Commodore PET was creating the right image...

Revision 3 (the production company) is only about a year old, so this is a brand new show. The 80s graphics are just meant to look old school.

Simon

Well then they succeeded. :)

That video is ace.

So funny! David is ace, great to have meet him and got to know him at the UK Champs in 2007, so funny.

Classic quotes This your run of the mill china slave labour drill... Very cheap.. .lol

And Do children still have paper rounds? i dunno, just old people throwing papers out of small vans...

LOL

Is a good clip, worth watching just for the fun of it, but it is helpful also.

Mr Stu

How about Get your Amish on

I did get annoyed with the host cutting of Daves sentences and Dave repeating every word after that.

yeh i agree that was very annoying the show could have been a few minutes shorter if that hadnt happened

glad everyone likes it seeing as i found it :)

Those robots arent made very well. The were designed for playing hockey, not for combat. When Dave took 4 of them to India for a demo competition one pretty much fell apart while fighting Desvastator with all the batteries falling out after it hit the roof and another died after only one hit from Avengers axe. If I remember right the other two lost after their drive wheels fell off.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kB4UVOnrwl8http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kB4UVOnrwl8

found another online one which i thought looked quite good, the whole sites seems to be about robots so even better

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-design-and-build-a-combat-robot/http://www.instructables.com/id/How-...-combat-robot/

Thats a pretty good guide you found there Alex.

Instructables is a great website, you can loose hours in it if you are not careful.

Check out my own Instructable at

http://www.instructables.com/id/RC-truck-robot-conversion/http://www.instructables.com/id/RC-t...ot-conversion/

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That is awesome. Really cool.

Thanks, I also have a humanoid robot which for which we organise UK combat and football events around the country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQKbDLqo9dUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQKbDLqo9dU

http://robosavvy.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=14http://robosavvy.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=14

Perhaps the FRA could do with a humanoid section ;)
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(Message edited by Orac on August 26, 2008)

May I just add that if you are not building a spinner between steps 3-4 or 5-6 you should build a model out of cardboard to test your robots against other models or just pieces of balsa wood