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Events attended:


May 4, 2003

Well, I talked to the EO for HSAC earlier this week, and he said he needed 16 bots for the tournament format he was going to do, so I took an old (4 channel) RC vehicle and ripped it apart... A few days of super glue, epoxy, and double-sided tape later, and I have a servo bot working.

--The lifter servo is not hacked and rotattes about 90 degrees. It's on channel 3, or the throttle, so it stays where I put it on the controls (no springs). The arm is about 3.5" from center of horn to tip, and can get under most paper. It's ~16 gauge Al with folded top and bottom edges hammered square for hardening and rigidity.

--The drive is two standard servos with whheels direct driven. They are put on channel 1 & 2 so you can use diagonal quasi-mixing. The wheels (1.1 oz each) are modified Lego Mindstorms wheels, about 3.25" dia. these allow me to work ( albeit limited ) inverted and it prevents me from being stood on my back panel.

--Armor is a sheet of thin steel in the baack, bent to fit the contours of the servos and battery pack under it, and in the front is a simple covering of ~16 gauge Al ( same as lifter arm ) in two pieces which also slopes down in the front into the wedge.

oh yeah, and those 4 pogs on the back 8^)

it went 4-0 undefeated at HSAC (except in the rumble, Coffee Grinder(beetle) dramatically "re-engineered" my lifter arm ;) , with the help of those awesome Arsenic blades), and a practice round with VCA. And it won the antweight championship & Best Engineered. good thing they didn't see the sticky tape frame...yay for armor!


Team member Michael Vroegop attended this event. I helped out some, painting some of the details on the "beach scene" inside the arena, and sweeping up after the destruction of a "Jap" bike (an old Suzuki, FYI), by Toro, The Hate Tank (AKA The Judge), and Tornado Mer.




Team member Michael Vroegop attended this event. We had planned to take video, but, unfortunately, only stills were allowed. That's understandable, though, as the event producer and host has to make money selling videos and other promotions. We competed a stripped-down Battlebots toy in the Antweight division, just for the heck of it. To learn more about Antweights, check out SOZBOTS . Sozbots is an organization created to regulate the Antweight class of combat robots. They also sell some great parts for building ants.