Inspiration/innovation in weaponry

[Black-Tie Knife Fight]

My experience, and I felt sad about admitting it to myself, was that anything complex and elaborate using new and quirky ideas, dies quick when given a good belt by a 10k drum.

That's definitely my fear, but I feel if I have 10 ideas and 1 of them ends up giving people something to think about or even just a laugh then it feels like time well spent, after picking up the remains of my contraption from the arena floor of course.

[Black-Tie Knife Fight]

I like that idea of splitting up the machine, I feel like it would be hard to implement but pretty spectacular if someone made it work. If it were durable or the machine is quick enough enough you could have a pop at the space between a horizontal spinner and its owner.

[R9000]

I like that idea of splitting up the machine, I feel like it would be hard to implement but pretty spectacular if someone made it work. If it were durable or the machine is quick enough enough you could have a pop at the space between a horizontal spinner and its owner.

Thanks, yeah that was what I was thinking about. The idea being that most robots are built to withstand pressure and impacts from the outside inwards, but not from the inside outwards.

[Tim The Plumber]

As a fully qualified armchair expert....

The jumping idea will definately work very well if you can use the full mass of your machine and get on top of those nasty spinning things and just pound away on them.

You might have trouble when you come up against a sloping pyramid thing though.....

[Black-Tie Knife Fight]

Absolutely Craig, what we're finding with our experiments at the moment is getting a form of reliability and predictability with our unit is proving to be more than a little tricky.

Sometimes and I say this as a scientist as well, though certainly not as an engineer, we can be a tad conservative when it comes to exploring new avenues with a tendency to favour improvements on the established and proven.

But hey, even a failed experiment is a form of progress!

[craig_colliass]

Absolutely Craig, what we're finding with our experiments at the moment is getting a form of reliability and predictability with our unit is proving to be more than a little tricky.

Sometimes and I say this as a scientist as well, though certainly not as an engineer, we can be a tad conservative when it comes to exploring new avenues with a tendency to favour improvements on the established and proven.

But hey, even a failed experiment is a form of progress!

Quite right you don't learn from success but from the failures (that's why I know a lot ) I and many others in the robot scene applaud the noble efforts over the successful robots. I'm looking forward to seeing what this system is. win or lose.

[typhoon_driver]

That's why I would recommend sharing the idea here as I'm sure you would get actual useful advice.

[adamclark]

Instead of jumping , could you not use some flappy whegs instead?

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Always hankered after the idea of climbing onboard and then extruding metal wire into the interior of the robot.
New-2Pcs-Retractable-Wire-Brushes-Jazz-font-b-Drum-b-font-font-b-Sticks-b-font.jpg
Basically a form of the Harlequins Kiss made real for any 40K fans
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Harlequin's_Kiss

[adamclark]

Always hankered after the idea of climbing onboard and then extruding metal wire into the interior of the robot.
New-2Pcs-Retractable-Wire-Brushes-Jazz-font-b-Drum-b-font-font-b-Sticks-b-font.jpg
Basically a form of the Harlequins Kiss made real for any 40K fans
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Harlequin's_Kiss

Looks like the option of injecting/feeding steel wire or spring steel is now a viable option with the rule changes allowing some forms of entanglement

[Runsler]

some entanglement is allowed now?
wow, didn't know this before... must have missed it.
Why is this change? spinners getting mighty?^^