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.....
When It comes to new weapons everyone would be pleased to see it. the rules restricting weapons are for the safety of the Roboteers or audience, or they are to make sure the weapon does not stop the fight early entanglement weapons radio interference etc.
What I would say about new weapons is they take several years to perfect and development costs a lot!
Many people in this game are professionals in science and engineering. If it's going to be effective and reliable they would have thought about it or something similar, please develop it but be aware you may find there is a good reason it hasn't been put into practice before.
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!
That's why I would recommend sharing the idea here as I'm sure you would get actual useful advice.
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.
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Basically a form of the Harlequins Kiss made real for any 40K fans
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Harlequin's_Kiss
Despite it being all metal and wires, that would still be really gross to watch, Adam. I don't know why.
Craig, I'm really looking forward to showing it off, whether it is a success or a glorious failure. It's hard talking about it and being aware that going in to too much technical detail will perhaps upset my building buddies, not to mention show up my woeful engineering parlance. We're all just really excited and keen to get involved and meet people.
Adam that would be the coolest thing ever, build it :P horrible weapon to be on the receiving end of though if it is anywhere near effective, lipo fires every fight etc haha
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