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What modeling do you use?

why does nobody make massive counter rotating wlywheels stacked on top of each other to counteract their gyroscopic forces?

the boss robot at 11.30 has some amazing driving skills

the last fight is just 100% outskilled driving

I am a bit curious about the clutch engage rpm, and how often does it wear down and need for a replacement. Look forward to part 2!

Ain't it possible to use the flywheel as a weapon and to get a wheelless robot moving to get weight bonus, while also tapping the flywheel as a flipper?

What an fantastic video! I hadn't realised there had been so many attempts at flywheel flippers. Good luck with the build it looks great! Andy (Anticide/Rapid/Formula/Hounds)

Maaaan I wanna do stuff like this tooo! Looks like such a blast! I gotta get into this

i love flywheel flippers although i have never attempted to make one myself, magneato was one of the robots to get me into combat robotics in the first place. Wonderful looking build i cant wait to see your fight video on it.

flywheel twisting a rope is an absolutely ingenious design

14:28 the screw unscrewing itself while winding up the cutter is pretty hilarious and terrifying

I am hyped

This might be a silly comment, but is there any reason for not adding some kind of stabby tooth or saw teeth to the flywheel to turn it into a kind of alternate weapon? It would give you the option to use the power of the flywheel to either flip or stab / cut depending on the situation. I’m sure there must be a reason, but I’m genuinely interested in what it is.

Hey man, I'm a subscriber and I enjoy your content, but I think. your thumbnails could use a bit of work because I saw your video quite a few times on my homepage, but I was quite hesitant to click on it because it just wasn't as appealing as some of the other videos. Just a tip for you, man. I just think you could use some better thumbnails. The current one that you have, not so good, but I know you can do better. All just my opinion of course. Otherwise, great video!

I’ve been chewing on how to couple a flywheel for robot weapon use for weeks now, thank you so much for this video!

I really like that you don't present these as "I'm awesome, I won", but rather as an engineering style analysis of builds, match ups, and strategies. Especially highlighting the sportsmanship between yourself and competitors. It's great to see.

roll cake's flywheel almost looks like a drum spiner

Always afraid of magnesium parts in an application where heat or friction is involved.

I hear that before every NHRL event all the competitors say a quick prayer to keep you on the otherside of the planet.

So, finally succumbed to the PCBWay sponsorship huh, heh. Just remember what you said to me at the feather event in NZ ;)

What about dual, redundant, horizontal counter rotating flywheels and clutch mechanisms? One on either side of the flipper arm, pulling a rope on either side of the flipper arm. Also, always a fan of flywheel flippers that also use the flywheel as a conventional spinner weapon.

Roll cake mentioned 😭

I’m curious about the possibility of mounting the flywheel horizontally. This would likely increase complexity of gearing to get the correct output, but it should improve drive characteristics, right?

I won't pretend I know very much about this stuff, but how fast are those elastic pulling the flipper arm back? Is there no issue with slowing it down, and can the robot just take the punch?

My teammate at nhrl made a 3lb called pretty fly which is a flywheel flipper

wow <3

This is awesome and I look forward to seeing the final thing in action and possibly the mechanism in slow mo

I didn't quite understand your discussion of gyroscopic effects. It seemed like you said you preferred mounting the flywheel vertically because of gyroscopic effects but if you want to be able to steer without the wheels lifting, you should aim to mount the flywheel horizontally. As a bonus, this makes your bot stable against flipping whole the flywheel is spun up (it's equally difficult to flip back the right way up if the flywheel is running but you should basically never get flipped)

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Maximum Paralysis v3 is also a flywheel flipper, although it's design is kind of unknown. We also tried a bit of flywheel design with Bravado, but that's on hold right now. Its great to see this video and history, everything is looking great!

There is no way anyone could make this without a high grade 3D printer/ laser cutter if on a higher scale. Just goes to show how you can’t do much without being well off in robot combat nower days :(

Gyro effects are definitely annoying, I'd target a horizontal flywheel if starting over as the wheelies when turning right are the Achilles heel of Blip. How much math modeling have you done on optimizing energy transfer? You seem on a decent track with the cam implementation but the ratio swing truly required is pretty big over a flip duration. Very stoked to see more takes on flywheel flippers!

Don’t know if you know this or if it’s a copy of blip but mark rober built a flywheel flipper

Keen to see it in action. Glad to see fellow FIRST alumni still building awesome robots!

What made you go for the Flywheel flipper design? the pure challenge of such a difficult design. You metioned blip, but why not have a look at tantrums Choo Choo flipper mechanism? (have a look at the video "Inside BattleBot Tantrum's Unique "Choo-Choo" Mechanism" if you have not already seen it.)

wouldn't the best position for the flywheel be horizontal ???

I’m very likely the wrong person to be asking this, but why not refine the system in your Antweight and then scale that up?

Looking forward to seeing it in action!

Been waiting for this! Love the design Been messing with my own flywheel flipper for a few years now but never committed to a design due to many oversights, definitely got some fresh inspiration from this

This design is impressive!

I seen the modle of this it is insane

I love your videos!! I dream of the day i could build something like it

I really like the basic concept of Warrior, with the disc weapon acting as a flywheel for the flipper. It's a shame it didn't really work, as either a spinner or a flipper. Having the flywheel axis of rotation perpendicular to that of the flipper arm can't be ideal though - I'd really like to see a bot using a vertical disc / eggbeater / drum weapon as the flywheel instead. Anyway, interesting video, and good luck with your design! 🎅

nice video

Definately a robot i've been keen to make for a while now, hoping for the best as there are so many variables and unsolved problems. As of writing this, the machine is still an overflowing box of parts! The script for this video was gunning to be almost 8000 words, had to cut it back to about 3000 for a digestible video. One day I might make some thinly disguised lecture on the fascinating fine details but that will have to wait. For now I need to get the robot done so the droning noise of my mill can finally stop haunting my dreams...

I'm building a servo controlled Antweight Flipper at the moment, this is an amazing creation and fantastic video. I really love your explanations, since usually only the final product is shown, whereas you explain the whole process.

Awesome!

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Congrats on the win! A retrospective on Derive would be a cool video, you could go through what worked and what didn’t, and even how you would fix the issues in the future.

Great video. Thanks for sharing!