Battlebots 09 Photos

[RogueTwoRobots]

Copied across from the Robowars.org forum:

http://pics.killerbotics.com/BattleBots-Apr09/

I think my favourite in terms of sheer cool-lookingness has to be this one

[dgr]

So that's how Donald Hudson would get Diesector down to heavy weight...build a new one!
Thanks for those Jamie. Although there is something interesting on the far left of this one:
http://pics.killerbotics.com/BattleBots ... C01079.JPG
I didn't know Napoleon Dynamite had a battlebot...

[craig_anto]

I thought that was McHarg

plus girls with Angle grinders mmmmhmmmm

[RogueTwoRobots]

You're a funny man Mr. Danby
Actually I guess it could've been me if I hadn't gone and got my hair cut short at the beginning of the week (starting to miss the old mop-top )

[john]

most american bots r ugly

[cavecrusher]

girls with Angle grinders mmmmhmmmm

http://www.grindergirl.com/home.html

[anukhet]

plus girls with Angle grinders mmmmhmmmm

In my long search for a job I didn't get as much of a direct insult as the time I was asked whether all my tools had pink handles. I told him that they did and it matched my pink Bosch angle grinder - and (unlike him) I knew how to use them

Reminds me of a quote from Terry Pratchett's 'The Light Fantastic'
Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway

[babeth]

That's the spirit lady !

[terrorhurtz]

Donald entered Root Canal in the end. Which used to be a middleweight...

I made up a page with thumbnails:
http://b-e-t-a.com/bb2009pics.aspx

I like this BioHazard-like middleweight - looks to be only about 50mm high! It's called Babs.
http://pics.killerbotics.com/BattleBots ... C01140.JPG
It is of course built by Team Whyachi. Who else would make a gearbox like that. Might be the gearbox from Red Square.

Counter Revolution:
http://pics.killerbotics.com/BattleBots ... C01110.JPG
Interesting idea with counter-revolving discs to cancel precession effects.
Looks like it might be using A123s.
Not sure how long those discs would last.

[dgr]

How did Warrior do? That robot is amazing.