Robo Challenge - Insomnia Gaming festival 26th to the 29th of August

[Liftoff]

Magnetise the whole floor. Now that would be fun :-)

Nah you won't but if you're hit hard enough you might fly off with a piece of the floor attached!

[PredictedCyborg]

Nah you won't but if you're hit hard enough you might fly off with a piece of the floor attached!

Well the original television series did have quite a few bots who managed to put smaller holes into the floor.
Time's ripe for a much larger one. :P

[Giles]

The thing with huge downforce is that you need to be able to drive still. According to Alex, Conker 3's magnets were too strong to drive with, and they aren't anywhere near as strong as a 500kg electromagnet. Let alone the fact that the magnet you linked weighs almost 5kg! If you spent that extra 5kg on armour, you would probably be better off vs a spinner.

[Liftoff]

The thing with huge downforce is that you need to be able to drive still. According to Alex, Conker 3's magnets were too strong to drive with, and they aren't anywhere near as strong as a 500kg electromagnet. Let alone the fact that the magnet you linked weighs almost 5kg! If you spent that extra 5kg on armour, you would probably be better off vs a spinner.

Thought someone would mention this, that's why I said electromagnet not a permanent magnet, so you'll be able to turn it on and off. So while driving the magnet is off, as the spinner approaches for the attack, turn the magnet on. At 4.5kg for 550kg worth of downforce is not much. You have 9kg left for building an indestructible brick!

[Eventorizon]

Are there any vids?

Has anybody got video footage of the fights left to upload? Unfortunately I didn't get anybody to film any of Mantis' fights and I would love to watch them back, it was all a blur to me.

Yep, lots of vids. Give it a few days for the regulars to upload their stuff, maybe next weekend. I have a load of 90 and 120 FPS footage from my Go Pro but I am busy so it may take a while to upload.

Thought someone would mention this, that's why I said electromagnet not a permanent magnet, so you'll be able to turn it on and off. So while driving the magnet is off, as the spinner approaches for the attack, turn the magnet on. At 4.5kg for 550kg worth of downforce is not much. You have 9kg left for building an indestructible brick!

Conker 3 had no magnets in it at all. I removed the 2 on the wedge after I discovered I couldn't drive at all with them and ran with just the wedge on the front.

I'd also say that massive magnet idea is a little too focused. You are never going to win a fight against other types of robot if you can't fight back, and since the spinner knows what you can do, they won't fall for it.

[stef]

Had a great weekend. It was pretty easy to come over with only a flight of 50 minutes. Thanks Grant for receiving and bringing over the crate with the robot in it.
Lets hope this event will keeps coming back! See you all next time!

stef

[Eventorizon]

Yep, even with two 25kg magnets it was enough to make driving impossible and for me to hang C3 off the arena wall!

[leorcc]

Spinners OP, need to nerf them!

[Giles]

Has anybody got video footage of the fights left to upload? Unfortunately I didn't get anybody to film any of Mantis' fights and I would love to watch them back, it was all a blur to me.