Cheesecake takes a beating! (Windy City Showdown 2023)
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2024
- Cheesecake is back! This time it’s a Chicago tournament: the Windy City Showdown #2 in Berwyn IL. This event occurred on March 18, 2023. I’ve made some important changes, and I’ve learned about more changes I still need to make.
The tournament:
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The bracket:
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Additional design changes I didn’t mention in the video:
1. My weapon has a white sticker on it to cover up the weight-saving hole and thus further reduce the weapon’s air resistance as it spins.
2. My weapon adapter (the white TPU part which connects my weapon to my motor) now has big holes in it. These holes help draw air into the motor to cool it down, which has improved weapon reliability. My theory is that when the motor gets hot, its electrical resistance increases, making it harder for the battery to push current through it and keep it spinning. I think this is what happened at my last tournament when my weapon shut down temporarily during two of my fights.
3. I’m using a new battery. My old battery was a 3S 300mAh 30C, but my new battery is a 3S 450mAh 80C. Theoretically, my old battery should have been fine, but it tended to get hot, and its capacity was almost too small for the 1800KV motor with my weapon on it. When I switched to the new battery, my reliability seemed to improve. My takeaway is that it’s good to over-spec your battery.
0:00 - Upgrades
1:16 - Bugbite
1:26 - Cheesecake vs Bugbite
1:56 - Post-fight analysis #1
2:07 - Bocchi the Bot
2:20 - Cheesecake vs Bocchi the Bot
3:02 - Post-fight analysis #2
3:15 - Robobot
3:24 - Cheesecake vs Robobot
5:06 - Post-fight analysis #3
6:21 - Franklin
6:41 - Rebuilding Cheesecake
7:22 - Cheesecake vs Franklin, Round 1
9:32 - Cheesecake vs Franklin, Round 2
12:06 - Final analysis
I film all my fights at 4K resolution and 60 frames per second. This allows me to zoom in with my editing software up to 2X and still have 1920x1080 video, and it allows me to slow down the action up to 4X and still have 15 frames per second. Наука
Hey! Captain of Team Somethin’ and driver of Jimmy V0 here. This was an amazing tournament and I was really scared if i had to fight you. In the end you did amazing with Cheesecake and I wish good luck for Cheesecake’s future tournaments
Definitely a rough way to finish but the fights leading up to it show clear improvements!
I've honestly thought about rebuilding the very first version of Cheesecake, and then having it fight the latest version for comparison to showcase the improvements. That could be really funny.
I love seeing the progression and thought process behind Cheesecake's design! Keep up the awesome videos!
The smaller weapon was definitely more effective, but it seems that the smaller reach makes it quite a bit more likely for other bots to hit your chassis. Perhaps changing the pivot of the bot further back by moving the wheels and maybe heavier parts if possible will extend the weapon further from the pivot point and extend your range, mitigating this issue.
Cheesecake is amazing! What an aggressive little beast. Super fun to watch. Kudos!
I competed with Up Ya Go in the beetles and that floor seam gave me a tough time too. I almost lost a fight because I got stuck in them
What’s up cannan
Cheesecake's a monster! Can't wait to get my revenge... or at least try to! :)
JORDAN is a monster! Cheesecake needed all these changes just to keep up!
lol, I like bocchi (bow-chee) the bot. the color scheme and name is in reference to an anime. Nice video! love to see the progression and continued developments of projects like these.
Hey cheesecake I was at this competition I was the kid in the black hoodie with the beetle weight winner up ya go and I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed watching your fights and I’m mainframe my own bot now too
Good vid,cheesecakes lookin great! Ya doin great work w it and it’s come a long ways,very excited to see it at Jersey in April!
3:13 really got a taste of that CheeseCAKE
A little trik-o-filing... Floor Seams. Radius the low lip of any contact plate/piece/spin-blade and Glide over, instead of getting hung-up.
Grass roots robot fitin' rocks
just a fan of combat robots, but curious about the pits (you dont see them covered on NHRL or other sites much) would some colored nail polish, tags, zip ties, heatshrink on the wire harnesses make it easier to quicly change and replace parts w/ less risk of mixup?
Oh yes, my latest design is much more internally organized, with just enough color coding to ensure I plug the battery into the right place.
Sir, I've been watching little Cheesecake toil endless opponents for about an hour now, learning a little about your bot in the process. I see you're using a Skywalker 3S ESC, (finally, I've been curious) to pair up with your 1800kv motor. You'd surely be able to save quite a few grams were you to swap it for a BL-Heli_S or BL-Heli_32 ESC, while gaining some awesome programmability over the power delivery. You probably don't use the Skywalker's BEC, so it's just generating heat and wasting space anyway (the ESCs I speak of don't have 5V outputs). Besides, the quad-style ESC's are cheaper, too
Thank you for being such a loyal fan! I'm actually using this ESC linked below, which uses the BL-Heli_S firmware, and is pretty light and small.
www.amazon.com/Electronic-Controller-Brushless-Multicopter-Quadcopter/dp/B09F3G4KNB
@@alexsalchemy Perfection, my guy. I'm enjoying watching these matches, and the steady iterative changes. Kicking myself for starting at the most recent video, lol
@@GhostRyderFPV - Haha, I should really feature the playlist of all Cheesecake's tournaments more prominently somewhere: tell the story from the start as new people find the channel!
Ooh tough lesson, but you learned ftom your mistake. Great stuff 👍
bro cheese cake never taps out
Ow, that's a "gin Binge" your Bot kinda took, while ya weren't lookin'?! Crossed wires.
Why wouldn't they just sand down that seam? haha
Bocchi the bot is not real, it can’t hurt you.
Bocchi the bot:
Repairs in Plastic Armour; . Try to use Cragle & arm+ Hammer as a filler, or E-6000.
This was an awesome recap
2 seconds into the championship match and you hear that Uh-oh. Definitely not a good sign mate.
Re: air resistance. Could you taper the edge if your spinner, even a little. Like a knife blade without losing too much structural strength
I thought about it, but it would be very hard to manufacture, and I kind of need that square shape to really bite into opponents on the tip anyway.
Kinda amazes me how many go with totally unprotected foam/plastic/rubber wheels.
I agree! One of my design goals for Cheesecake was to have the wheels inside the chassis, even if it costs some extra weight.
Could you print some components with chetaflex maybe?
I'd try add some more shock absorbing material to more components. Thin layers of semi-hard rubber maybe, you want to dampen the acceleration curve of the BIG hits, too soft and it will bottom out too easily on the big ones.
Ooh someone watched that end game video ;-)
@@RennieAsh Yes, and ME degree :D.
I've always been a big proponent of shock absorption. Around 50% of critical failures arise from the inside of robots vs external mechanical failures.
Ah ha, so you became a Could of Been champion 🏆
Nice work! What options are you considering for upgrading the motor mounts? Would TPU work?
I thought about using TPU for the motor mounts, but there are two embedded locknuts in each mount which allow me to bolt them to the frame, and I think TPU would be too squishy to keep those nuts from rotating as I tighten the mounting screws into them. Good idea though, maybe an alternative mounting strategy would allow me to use TPU for these parts.
"Hey he took a bite on my butt" wich butt yours or cheescakes🤔
cheesecake for the win
I see you're also competing at "SWORD at the museum"!
Just by seeing what you did to that one viper kit makes me VERY scared to fight you, so try not to absolutely level my bot.
I actually had to drop out of SWORD: not enough time for that and the GSCRL finals :(
@@alexsalchemy darn
That’s rough
bocchi the bot, hahahahahha
See you in April Annihilation
The arena builder needs to be fired.
You hit my frame and I was not able to fight for a month. I had to buy a new frame. So thanks allot and I don’t mean it
>Enters robot fighting competition
>Has option to tap out
>Does not tap out
>Sustains damage
>Loses
>???
>This is my opponents fault