I have a crazy amount of experience fighting robots made from wood. It's awesome. Hardwood for lids and bases and softwood like 2x2 for sides. When spinner blades hit it they just bind up and slow down. As mentioned, the technique that works well I find is just a wall of softwood and keep bullying said spinner so it never gets to spin up. I will works brill.
@overkill it's in podcast form, but it's a good one.
https://soundcloud.com/insidethebot/...r-james-cooper
Thanks, that was very interesting!
As a highly biased Spinner builder . I am not sure if entanglement will produce interesting TV, even with the limitations mentioned. It wasn't mentioned if the entanglement rules applied to feathers or just to the heavies - does any one know more about that.
Last edited by overkill; 14th March 2017 at 22:21.
I would assume that any general rule for the heavies also goes for the feathers. Still I don't think spinners have been as big a problem in FW right? Not completely dominating as such.
That's true, the flippers have dominated for the past few years. There was talk of raising the FW arena's inner walls last year, which would be relatively easy to do. An alternative might be to borrow from the Sportsman rules and limit the flipper width to a percentage of the bot's width (which would really annoy several teams ).
Personally, I just updated my application form to have an entanglement device as an optional 2nd weapon.
Just thinking ahead, it would make really boring matches if spinners also had effective entanglement weapons - fights would end up being pushing matches if both weapons were disabled.
Last edited by overkill; 14th March 2017 at 23:54.
Most interesting thing about these limitations on entanglement for feathers is, if the length stays the same.
One meter is much more on a feather than on a heavy.
Depending on that i might have an idea that really could stop anything from spinning within these limitations and is a ready-to-buy-solution.
Share the solution? I've got a sail winch feeding 50cm of hawser with a fish hook on the bench at the moment. Also it's 1m per bot so minibots with 1m total each could be interesting
Well... you know these clothes lumberjacks wear (or should wear) safety jackets and stuff filled with aramid fibers?
Those really aren't long (i doubt longer than 1m), but those clothes are made to get ripped by chainsaws, get those fibers into the chainsaw, wrap them around anything moving and get them stuck.
just build a wooden bot, use some staples to put pieces of those clothes on there -> boom, spinner-proof wooden bot.
Well, if you survive the first hit, that is... would have to try and go for just a light touch early on.
And i'd pity any roboteer having to clean those fibers out of any rotating stuff inside...
Just realised: 1m per bot meaning also 1m total, or is it 1m per bot per string (and multiple strings allowed)?
Forget my idea if it is 1m total.
And absolutely forget it if i can finish my spinner before the event in germany in april and you want to go there
The caveat was that any entanglement devices could not be woven cloth/chainmail/nets. I don't think fabric would be allowed, even in strips.
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