UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

[jonny]

if matt doesn't take it all i'm interested in the drum spinner. by the way any update on the arena?

[jonny]

just put up a test video of my beetlweight called kookaburra, named after the deadliest of creatures in the australian outback.

... t_received

[harry hills]

i hope that fights a spinner

[mattsdragons]

I want to hopefully build a drum spinner or something pneumatic, if that's even possible in this weight class

[mattsdragons]

I want to hopefully build a drum spinner or something pneumatic, if that's even possible in this weight class

[Andy]

What kind of brushless motors are the best for this weight class and is attaching it directly the bar ok?

[Kenny]

I wouldn't suggest mounting directly to the motor shaft in this weight class as they arn't strong enough to withstand the impacts we are expecting

[john_frizell]

would spinners be able to fight at most events of would they only be at select events?

Good question. The big question is whether anyone is building an arena that can take these machines. Someone please correct me if I am wrong but at present there is no arena which is available and suitable for this class - whether they are pushers, flippers, spinnners or whatever.

[PJ-27]

Talking about arena hazards what about house robots?

It's just occurred to me that I have a couple of those R/C Robot Wars toys they made a while back. These 2 actually;

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0618651120

I liked Jamie's idea of turning his Chaos 2 toy into a competing Ant, so thought I'd do the same with these!

They only have plastic shells, so I wouldn't want to compete with these (spinners and all that.....) plus seems unlikely I would get them under 1.36 kgs, but could be interesting to watch from an audience perspective if they acted as the house robots they are based on.

How is the arena coming along? Who is building it, and would they be bringing it to events? Or running their own events?

[xtreme]

I built the arena. Kennys going to be taking it to Robots Live events somtime.