I've been watching BattleBots, and I'm convinced that with a good team behind me, we could make something competitive on that show. Ieed a knowledgeable and creative group, with at least some CAD experience.
We can share files through AutoDesk (which is free for students). I'm in neuroscience, so I won't be able to provide a lot of specialist skills in this field, but I will take care of all administrative duties including getting us into the tournament as well as securing sponsors and/or grants. I'm willing to take on 10-20 members. Perhaps we could get a Skype group together?
Anyways, here are the rules to the competition, which state that no building should take place until an application with our designs is accepted.
http://www.battlebots.com/rules/
>>8175224
I remember Robot Wars in the UK, I wish I'd taken that robotics course now.
>>8175224
I'll suck your dick for a nickel.
>>8175237
it's not really necessary, as long as you have knowledge (group or individual) of kinetic physics, design, and a bit of mechanical engineering
>>8175224
2 choices. spin bot or flip bot. no other bot ever succeeds.
I vote we put a gun on it.
>>8175497
fuck that make a robotic arm bot that grabs the other faggot bot and throws it.
>>8175508
Yeah, AR-15
>>8175524
We could use one of those laser wall levels to sight it. Shines a fan laser on the ground in front of the muzzle, get a perfectly straight line out to ten feet or so.
>>8175224
Applied maths and compsci grad
Various CAD experience and i took various robotics classes
I suggest discord instead, it's better
>>8175510
Doesn't work. People have tried
>>8175224
What about a forklift bot? gets underneath the other bot and flips them?
>>8175725
I get what that anon is saying though. Have you seen what an excavator arm can do? Can we just scale that down and speed it up a bit? I'm sure you could end up making quite a formidable bot with something like that.
>>8175731
I have the feeling you haven't watched battlebots before. What you describe sounds way too slow. The closest that has ever worked is sort of a spring-action flipper, but it's generally too slow and fucking up a couple times is game over. Sawblades and hammers usually do best, sometimes the flippers work.
>>8175224
>BattleBots
Pathetic show. Wait for the superior Robot Wars: it is gonna come out again soon.
>>8175224
What microcontroller are you going to use?
would it be against the rules to make a bot that uses super capacitors to create high enough voltages to try to fry the components of the other bots?
>>8175725
http://battlebots.wikia.com/wiki/Complete_Control
need a coder? cause that seems to be the only thing I excelled at at school, and frankly I need some practice and something to show potential employers that even though my degree isn't in computer science and I only found out that coding was my niche my senior year .
>>8175742
>Have you seen what an excavator arm can do? Can we just scale that down and speed it up a bit?
