The whiteboard fights seem like a great idea, and I'd certainly love to compete in a few of those if I can. The main reason I've been trying to accelerate the bot building process is that I keep seeing more and more people applying for Insomnia, and even though I doubt the machine would be that much of a threat, I'd still be dissapointed to find out that I applied too late to compete! If I could show up to the event even without qualifying just to compete in some whiteboard fights, then that's just makes me all the more determined to get this machine finished by the end of August!

Thanks for the reminder about accessibility btw: I don't have it in this version of the cad, but I'm planning for the sides to be held in via barrel nuts and a threaded aluminum bar, so that should hopefully should allow easy removals of the side panels. I still have to figure out a way to remove the lifter and actuator bars in a quick manner: I assume that the bars will be threaded, so really I should try to keep the nuts and washers as close to the ends as possible.