I made a mini deathroll... and it's INSANE!
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Look out for scammers guys. I had someone try tell me I won the giveaway.
Yep it's a scam, they ask you for shipping payment for a fake prize. I don't have a telegram. Feel free to waste their time!
How will you contact the winner?
@@colinmanlives Future video.
@@MakersMuse will do, I got messaged too, but the language didn't quite sound like you Angus. Not yet up to the point where they have asked for money - apparently I am getting a guitar and macbook air.
Same here, his english was so bad, no way this was Angus. Probably some fat chinese dude.
It's just a silly little guy
Just a funny lil dude
Just a goofy wacky fella
What a rascal
Little silly goose
Wow. Look at that little man go
The sound effects around 9:32-9:37, where you play with the boot up sounds of the bot, was just pure enjoyment for my ears.
Hehe ty. Couldn't resist adding some nice reverb to the menacing arming sound.
@@MakersMuse name of the track please 🙏
Same, that was epic! The dramatic synth with those beeps instantly reminded me of Shotgun King
@@MakersMuse i have texted u in telegram
That's a scammer! sorry.
Just an idea; like you said, titanium while relatively hard, it's not that hard compared to hardened steel, but what you could try to improve edge retention when slamming into stuff is carbidizing the edges of the blades. It's basically welding a thin layer of tungsten-carbide onto one side of the edge to give it a much harder surface. I know that some knifemakers do that when/if they make titanium blades.
Never heard of this before, sounds like a great idea though.
Look closer at any tungsten carbide tipped drill bit and you'll see exactly this
This tbh
Der Bro hat eif Titan studiert
maybe titanium nitrade (golden coating on drill bits - super hard) could be an option?
As an American beetleweight and antweight builder, the ultimate design that I have been working at is an overhead bar spinner that uses shuffle pods instead of wheels. This gives the bot a 25% weight bonus, allowing for a more powerful weapon motor and a heavier bar. Additionally, this would be made out of a central TPU chassis for maximum damage absorption with aluminum top and bottom armor for rigidity. Oh and by the way, that weapon blade being given away would come in quite handy for my first fairyweight build! 😉
Thanks for all the entertaining content and hard work!
I can't believe a 150g bot sounds that lethal! Great job with mini Deathroll, you really nailed it!
Believe it
Oh man and you used Naomi’s new insert tool 😍 seriously awesome build!
It's so good!!!
I'm in the Nerf modding hobby, and those inserts are becoming pretty standard. I'm sure that a few high performance blasters could use that precision
I would probably just do Typhoon 2 with some kind of self-righting mechanism as my ultimate battle bot. The armor also being the weapon is a genius way to cut weight down to the point where they were able to power the thing with a small engine rather than the standard batteries, and the power that weapon had as a result is beyond terrifying. When your armor spins, every blow is glancing!
As a high schooler I do vex robotics and the zip tie idea looks fantastic. Last year the competition used discs that had to be shot out so we use zip ties to prevent the discs from flipping backwards.
Dude I used to be on a Vex team, graduated after Spin Up! What team are/were you on?
@@plasticlawnchair7197 hey, I’m on 8780B. We are an IL team. What team were you on
@@rishabnavadgi3116 I was on 2114R from Arizona
@@rishabnavadgi3116 Cool! I designed and printed 200 coins for team 29766 out of Indiana for the 2019 championships in KY.
Hey Angus! I been a big fan of battlebots since first seeing the ABC reboot as a kid. I like to think it’s a big reason I developed enough of an interest in pursuing engineering as a career and I’m happy to say I’m now going into my sophomore year of college as a mechanical engineer. It’s been great seeing combat robotics evolve so much over the past years and seeing the success of robots such as Tantrum, Sawblaze, and Huge. I’d say if I were designing an all out dream robot it would be a cross between Tantrum and Whiplash. All of the control of a lifter, and the ability to set precise attacks. Throw in the drivetrain of Claw Viper and it would be an absolute powerhouse!
I love the way everyone comes over to check out what's making that terrifying spin up sound.
I have been working on a 3lb robot that kinda looks like axe backwards. But I used a aluminum tube as the drum with a titanium bar on one side of it and all of the eltronics are inside the drum with the wheels on the outside. It works like a robot called noob tube but I put a rap around wedge that goes around one side so it can be somewhat defensive too. But this design is cool because around 3/4 of the weight is in the weapon.
That’s very cool that you were able to make a mini deathroll. I used to watch these competitions years ago and now that I started 3D printing, every time you do a video on them it makes me want to get into it more. The mini deathroll looks like it’ll be a menace.
Do it brah
Hey Angus! It was great to see pancake live and looking forward to more exciting antweight stuff. After my bot got destroyed, i plan to redesign and build a new modular both that can swap to differemt weapon types making it able to compete in both non destructive and destructive categories next event!
Dibs on a picture with Tantrum and Blip with tiny Deathroll at Opensauce
The robot I always wanted was a specialized anti-horizontal spinner bot (I imagined this back when Tombstone was dominating everything): use squishy armor that would (hopefully) slow down and catch those crazy fast blades, but use their own force to ram a large spike on the side of my robot into the side of theirs. Possibly up the ante with a spring-powered punch system like they use on centerpunches. Since it uses the enemy's strength against it, I might call it Aikido. Wish I could be there across the bay at OpenSauce - tickets are all gone though. Good luck! I would love to see more robot combat content. I love battlebots but would like to see more between seasons.
In UK robot wars there was an anti horizontal spinner robot called gabriel that was just meant to not die (to try and counter carbide)
or you could just have a wedge
Has anyone else got a scam for telegram me saying that you won?
Building a flipper that uses bent carbon fiber as a lightweight high strength spring would be cool, styled like some kind of jumping bug as it will probably go flying with how much energy carbon fiber can store.
I feel like that carbon fiber would deteriorate within a match or 2 with the repeated stresses
@@BeefIngot Replace after every match, to get the most out of high performance material
@@BeefIngot replacing key parts on battlebots every battle is nothing unheard of
apparently on some spinners blades rarely rast more than one or two battles
armor plates have to freqnetly go thourgh major repairs and complete replacement
My wife wanted to make something like that only the flipper move in through both sides of the bots body. That way the robot itself could jump and flip over the robot. It would also get it one hell of a pushing force
All I know about carbon fiber that it's the worst material for springs. If you know of such applications I would be very curious to learn about a process to make it work. Kevlar would possibly be much better but It still will require some special binder as standart composites will be stiff as hell.
I love the mini death roll. Always been a fan of battle bots. I've always found tombstone to be one of my favorites, but for a antweight I think your design is better for a hard hitter with less damage to the robot itself 😂
My dream combat robot, I'm actually in the process of designing. It is a double drum with both drums in the front. They would be supported in the middle with a pair of forks like Scorpios, but back to back as to push the opponent to the outside. The drums would be fully reversible, and the bot designed to drive up side down. This way, no self righting would be required. The drums would be independently controlled so the gyroscopic action can be negated or utilized for steering. This would probably end up a paper tank like minotaur.
fantastic build. I really like the titanium colour
Great project! Mini Deathroll looks clean!
Fully agreed & glad to meet you here ☺
A flat robot using mechano wheels, with a different weapon on each side. For example, a ramp in one side, a vertical spinner on another, a spike hammer, and flipper arm on the two other sides. The mechano wheels would allow you to move in any direction so you can choose which weapon to attack with
If I were to build a battle bot I would name it "Viceroy" due to it's dual mandible design intended to crush its opponents' frames. Think stag beetle mandible shape.
Though maybe one mandible would be better because all the power goes to one arm instead of being split between two. In this case think hercules beetle mandible shape.
The only real problem I can see is the holding/grappling rules restricting the crush timing to a minimum.
Would love to do a super-capacitor bot that just blows the other bots up with a light touch 😂
😂 good luck sneaking that in!
I love your combat robotics content! It makes me happy to see your stuff. I've been working on a US antweight hammer saw design for a while (yes before the BB finals lol), so far I've only run a wedge but I'm hoping to have the hammer saw design finished for the next local competition. Its gonna be tough to get into the right limit but I'm only 50-60g away so I think I can make it work.
@makersmuse it looks like you have a phisher in the comments
@@lizrrdbreathI got similar message, definitely a scam
This little bot is AMAZING!
Hi Angus! My idea is that since combat robots don't seem to have much armor on the bottom, we can use a forklift style lifting arm to lift the robot up, and then cut into it from the bottom, using a small spinning blade. Weight would probably be the limiting factor, since the forklift arm needs to be long enough it can pick up robots, and move high enough that the opponent can't just drive off the arms. Or maybe some controlled flipper style mechanism, which will reliably flip robots on their back, and then a simpler cutting arm can cut from above.
I don't want the weapon disc, but I'd like to say thanks for introducing me to combat robotics. It's one of my new favourite hobbies even if I suck. I recently upgraded my CR-10 so I could print nylon more easily for new chassis so my bots won't explode as much.
That's so cool! Doesn't matter how good your bot is as long as you're having fun building and competing.
@@MakersMuse it is a lot of fun. Currently designing my first beetleweight!
@@jb-br8bfyou need to make RUclips videos about your bots. I also want to learn to make these bots at home but I'm completely rookie to electronics.
I know triplecrown didn’t get too much battlebots screen time, but I really enjoyed seeing a swerve drive in a competition with usually pretty basic wheel layouts. So if I could design my dream robot, it would probably have a swerve drive (probably just two swerve pods instead of three) alongside a horizontal spinner on one side and a flipper on the other.
I would go for coaxial four wheel swerve (triple crown uses differential, and with that comes a very finicky drivetrain under high weight) with a vertical disk
Triple Crown wasn't completed by the time it "fought". I think the only thing working was its drive.
Flamethrower would be cool but no place to store the stuff so
A shock bot, it has some kind of taser or tesla coil or something so Powerful that would basically turn off the opponent, I'm not sure if that's allowed
In case it isn't here's another idea: egg robot, or well more like sphere robot, I'm not 100% certain how you'd move it but i have a few ways in my mind (having "cuts" that work like wheels) and make the robot as indestructible as it can get and make it really fast.
There are so many beaters, spinners and flippers.
But I've always wanted to see a robot that jousted more or less.
Piston, big pointy spear, horizontal that could be tilted up and down. Would be so cool.
Completely insane, this is the stuff that makes me exited for where this sport is going, as an upcoming builder myself, you're certainty an inspiration.
Please more 3d printing with combat robots 🔥❤
on the main channel!)
Using the spining blade you made and using it vertically in the front (if the blade were balanced it could be used horizontally to counteract the gyro effect when turning and even use it as a self balancing feature making it harder to flip the bot as it would stay horizontal in the air).
For locomotion just one power wheel in the back and a servo upfront that would touch the ground creating drag to steer the bot.
With that much weight saving you could make a sturdy chassis to allow the bot to take a beating.
Another option would be to have a massive capacitor and explode it when touching the other bot as a 1 shot weapon.
Love the setup, bot, and the class limit. Would love to build something like that. Awesome work
If I had to do a tiny bot, I think I'd want to recreate Mythbusters' Blendo. In one of Savage's videos, he goes over how Blendo was so obnoxiously effective that it actually flung bots over the barrier and into the crowd. The team was pulled aside, given an award, and told not to bring Blendo back because their lawyers would have an aneurysm. Savage said it was basically the best possible result you could ever hope for.
A smaller version that's proportionally easier to handle but just as lethal in its weight class just seems like the perfect thing to do.
That would have to be an INSANELY strong bot WOW!
2:55 is truly amazing comedy. "So anyway, here's the full production CAD of Deathroll"
So, one mechanical concept rules light weight battle bots. The ability to store up energy to unleash all at once, hitting far above the weight class would imply.
This is why spinners are so common, because the ability to spin up the weapon to high RPM for a single blow allows even featherweights to hit like bullets.
One idea I'd love to see is that idea taken to the extreme. A bot that uses elastic tension and a winch system to draw a metal spike back, then stab it into the enemy. like a crossbow that's made for melee. (No projectile, the bolt never actually leaves the weapon)
I've seen this idea handled a different way in Robot Wars with Pain. That robot used a Co2 canister to fire a piston, but the weapon idea was the same. Stab the enemy at high speed.
I would build a hexagon shaped robot with 6 spinning blades on each corner, and make the wheels stick out on both ways so it can drive upside-down. Pretty redicoulos but i think its beautifull
I love drum spinners. Some like Minotaur have excellent moveability and they can pack some serious punch. So that would probably be my dream bot to build. I've actually designed one already just need to get the parts someday😊
Put traction grip pads under the front of the robot, so when the spinner engages the enemy and lifts the enemy, it pushes the front of your robot down and grips the floor. You need a little bit of spring at the front to hold the traction pad JUST above the floor and and a lot of traction pad area.
My dream battlebot resembles an upside-down traffic cone. It has a single track-ball wheel and uses gyrosensors and Segway-style control strategy to balance and move about on its one wheel. It can also telescope along its vertical axis, and expand quickly to hop. Its weapon is a downward-firing spike. It is a glorious combination of a OneWheel, pogo stick, and jackhammer. It is finicky, obscure, unique, and will deliver spectacular death-blows. You can include a righting mechanism if you're the sort of wimp who thinks high-performance aircraft should have ejection seats. An alternate version has wheels top and bottom and a hinge in the middle, allowing it to do flips and cartwheels.
What a beautiful and clean design!
Building close to ground robot that has a way of getting underneath the others and springing it's top up to flip them over.
Im not sure how much torque you would need, but maybe twisting some string making an actuator could work with a small cellphone vibration motor. It should be substantially less weight and should be enough force to flip the bot
That's not a bad idea! I'll play with some prototypes
It’s about the damage, a two stage hit would be my preference. Like a two parts hammer, flat hammerhead hits and if angle shows it hit the robot the spiked hammer follows (prevents nailing yourself to the floor). Or two spinning disks with opposite rotations, you either hit it hard enough with one or resistance will drag the other disk into play. This is for mini robots, for larger it’s usually just about compactness-hitting power balance
Hm, the two opposing spinning discs are an interesting idea. I actually get an image of a nastier bizarro version of Blendo´s weapon combined with the shape of vertical spinners like the one here in my mind. Two high mass horizontal spinners with a single protruding "blade"/impactor each. With some nice programming and variable speed one could add in an absolutely devastating function. Normal spinners create a high energy impact and throw their opponent away. But if you get smart with the horizontal double array, you can vary the speed and basically create a hammer-shear that can be created in any direction by varying the rotational speed and changing the point where the blades overlap. Its a good defense as one blade alone would throw away an opponent, but if the enemy bot gets in between the "kill zone" that both blades meet at, it could do massive amounts of damage by just shearing chunks out of it.
Awesome build - this video makes us want to build our own! I like your design style.
A titanium sphere, rolly pollying around. You'd win by control :)
My ultimate design for a combat robot would be some sort of full body spinner with a full articulating walking system. I love the robot by the way, definitely one of the coolest at that weight class.
Dream-bot concept: Swarm-bot - where the robot divides into multiple robots to attack as a pack. Most battlebot designs assume one opponent so will struggle against a swarm. E.g., 3 robots, the first, a vertical blade spinner, takes the attention of the opponent's weapon. Meanwhile the second, a lifter comes around the back to expose the drive wheels or some other vulnerability. The third, a pancake, sneaks under and destroys the drive wheels.
i absolutley love this kind of content, even tho im more of a 3d printing guy and i havent gotten in touch with combat robotics... yet. I think this countent even for your current audience could be very nice
flamethrower that heats a chainsaw that turns very fast and the bod has a dragon theme and to reverse it has a rotating blade as a tail🐲🔥
OMG, the sound of that spinning up is crazy. however, that gave me an idea of making a defense first bot that has essentially a arm clamp that has brillo pad curtains on the end of it to essentially clog up the opponents motorized device.
the blade spinning that fast works also as gyroscope making it more difficult to flip
Probably the most polished Antweight/Fairy I have ever seen; Looking great!
Hey Angus. Just a huge flywheel like your Deathroll. The motos, everything inside the hub. You can't get near it without being trashed.
My ultimate robot design would be a two arm battle bug that has curved flipper arms armed with spinner blades similar to yours. The arms would be mounted in the middle and be able to swing from left to right. It would have a futuristic look similar to the cyber truck but a very organic squid like paint job. Has been a blast. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for reigniting Battlebots in my memories, two decades and I still haven't forgotten how kid me channel surfed and found cool robots just clashing steel
Fluffy some of the most effective and compact pioneers of horizontal spinner. Robot War S5. the thing had a petrol engine. Brings us back
Love the combat robots, ant weight looks like quite the challenge. I did have a design in mind, a disk-shaped robot similar to a simple spinner but with two toothed and counter-rotating rings completely encircling robot. The teeth on the bottom ring could be angled downwards if necessary to protect from wedge robots. It might even be possible to stop the weapon and use the teeth to pinch other bots so they could be dragged to pits or other hazards. I call it "Crown of Thorns."
Seeing your shirt inspires me, I would make a Doctor Who themed Combat Tardis! With an undercutting blade (covered with the galaxy design mimicking how the Tardis teleports) which wraps around sort of like a shell spinner/skirting and the main Tardis structure as a fixed self righting tower housing the components!
Great battle bot! I would love to build a spinning driving net with ball bearings at the intersections of the rope. The net would get tangled in other spinners and hopefully make them stop working.
Oh and the disc is a map of Australia! Nice!! Looks amazing AND brutal!
It's a really unique design! Balancing it was a bit tricky but worth it.
I would design a robot with 4 wheels, a large vertical spinner, a counterbalancing flywheel (for stabilization) and long forks on linkages. Using a servo the forks tilt down and lift the robot onto two wheels so that the forks have the maximum low ground. There would also be electro magnets on the bottom to keep it on the floor.
My ultimate dream robot would be a claw/hugger bot with two angle grinder on its jaws. Biting down on a enemy would mean cutting through their chassis instead of just knocking them away!
My ideal robot's main strategy would be to immobilize the competition. It would purposely have materials hanging off of it that would hopefully get tied up in the enemy robot. clog the wheels, the main weapon, and hopefully anything else that spins. Once its achieved this, it would have a pincher of some kind to squeeze the enemy, in hopes to pierce armor and delete electronics
I've always wanted to design a combat robot with an internal horizontal flywheel that is disconnected from the weapon by a clutch pack. This would allow the flywheel to build momentum even if pinned while hitting with power similar to a horizontal spinner. Rush the opponent, pin then or their weapon while internally spinning up my own, then delivery the death stroke. Good luck making that on an ant weight scale though!
a tiny little butane torch and 3 little spinners going in alternating directions and thin titanium plates for protection. It would be pretty hard to pull off the torch, but I feel like it could work.
my current idea is hammer saw/ beater bar with the beater mounted in an articulating arm, so it could function as a vert or a top attack robot with more memetic energy than a typical hammer saw.
Nice to see more footage of the workshop
A tip for heat inserted threads, I take the longest bolt available and thread it on the insert and heat it up, that way its easier to keep straight as it melts into place
Cool battle bot idea would be a giant gear chain that goes all around the bot. One motor could power the entire robot weapon, protecting it from all angles.
I love the fact that you casually use Nadsat in your every day vocabulary.
My plan is to make a little hub on wheels that could drive around, surrounded by a big horizontal belt drive. Just a big round spinning neoprene belt orbiting around a little drive robot. In my mind it would win by chucking the opposing robot at walls on contact. Admittedly, it's probably not a very consistent win condition, but at least it's dramatic. I've also long suspected that giving the hub robot enough traction to counter the force of the whirling belt would be a bit of a pain, though.
Thanks for sharing. Always enjoy your videos. 👍🏼
I would have a disc out of the robot on an arm to add range and have a system on the bottom to spring it up when in trouble
Awesome build !
I always wanted to build a robot like Minion, with a basic wedge design, a vertical dorsally mounted circular saw, a smaller trio of vertical circular saws on the back, and a self-righting arm that folded flush to the body. Basically, imagine the Aurora [possibly fictional] spy plane, and make it into a wedge and vertical circular saw type fighting robot.
That shade of blue is super pretty, and the process seems surprisingly simple. Though in my head I'm comparing it to those "electroplating FDM prints" videos.
Love the awsome build, and I have another GREAT DESIGN CONCEPT! I also plan on making a direct mounted 150g vert, I'm from the USA so I will call it a fairy weight from now on. But basically it is kinda like end game, but with 2wd, maybe 4 in the future, with front hinged forks. And I found a way to direct mount it to the weapon motor of my 450g bot, I see some true power potential. I also plan printing the entire frame out of 100% Nylon for a little bit of extra impact resistance over rigidness, I would also use one of my Malenki Nanos for weight efficiency and the ability to use a 5 gram servo with a self righting arm(Also like End Game). Most of this weight would come out of the wheel guards and the little details that don't help the acual performance. Many fairy weights don't look that cool, but another funny thing is that Purple fits my green Poison color scheme. Overall, I've made plans, most of which already exist physically, and with a blade like that, this thing will NOT disappoint. Good luck at Open Sauce!
Another thing, I would gladly send a concept design if needed.
The bully bot, I would make a robot that jumps and the glides/floats down ontop of the opposition and attacks them front the top, I'm thinking it jumps up a good 2-4.feet, expands wings to aim itself on top of the enemy and drops on it with a spiked feet, the top of it is hard and you can aim it sideways to jump into robots like a hammer.
-praying to get the cool titanium thing 🤞🤣
I want to make a heavy flywheel which drives a super grippy tyre on the top of a wedge bot through a special clutch. I had the realisation that the impact of a spinner with claws making contact breaks the attacker more often than the opponent. What breaks the opponent is throwing them really hard, and hard surfaces don't really hold onto the opponent very well. So the idea is getting under them so they're wedged up on top of a dragster tyre, then dumping the clutch to grip them like crazy and throw them as hard as any other spinner. Rather than a glancing blow, every time you can wait for the opponent to be fully resting on the tyre before throwing them. If you're upside down, you also get no resistance to spinning up the flywheel and the tyre can throw you hard enough to self-right.
I'd build a 4 way low profile wedge that high centers the other bot and jaws of life style cuts it in half via proximity sensor if auto control is allowed. I would cam the jaws for fast actuation transitioning to extreme torque. Alternatively, two low exposure, top, fixed blades coupled with a projecting saw that runs within a pair of barbed harpoons might look pretty impressive. Perhaps timed blades in an x-pattern, with a profile similar to your deathroll, which rotate away from your bot in a counter clockwise fashion would throw some serious force at the walls of the arena.
Wow that is actually really easy anodizing the Ti. Thanks for the info.
My ultimate battle bot design would be a bot with 2 blades in the front (one on top of each other) but spinning opposite directions. Then have the blades designed in a way so when they're spinning they make a screeching sound.
As a fellow Aussie, I would love to make a battlebot called the Akubra, with a hat shaped top surrounded by weights on strings (like corks), that spins to act as the weapon. It will be self-righting because the bowl-shaped top and uneven weight distribution will put one side of the weapon in contact with the ground and the spinning will right it
Went and signed up to PCBWay. Now to leave a comment for the algorithm. Fantastic work as always, mate!
Great video, haven’t seen anything as entertaining as this for ages. As with any design there’s a compromise, but if you can overcome the stuck turtle issue, I would hate to be put against that little beast 😂
Outdoor-FPS-Mini-mech battles will soon be here and it will be the best sport ever.
I've been wanting to build a robot that has a welder built in, and just welds the other bot to itself, or to the ground. Imagine if you show up with a big tack welding hug, and the other robot just fuses to itself. No idea how to fit that in any weight class, but I think it would be hilarious.
WOW that is pure solid electro-mechanical awesomeness!!! And it's so unbelievably tiny!
A bullet ant style claw mechanism at the front of the bot, used to both trap and damage the opponent. Along with some way to make it spin incredibly fast in order to just launch the trapped bot
A grabber that can gum up opponents spinning weapons, with a pile bunker drill that it can use to once the opponent has been grabbed would be my design.
This is what I love about 3d printing. it gives anyone the ability to create their wildest dreams.
My dream battle robot combines sleek, humanoid aesthetics with advanced functionality, featuring a durable, agile frame, integrated weapons systems, versatile sensors, and seamless team coordination capabilities.
Love seeing battle bots. Reminds me of the days spent as a kid playing Robot Arena 2 and watching the fights on tv.
when was in highschool / middle school (im 35 now) i had so many bot designs and i could just go on for hours but with how the tech has evolved so much i doubt any of my ideas could even work today. i always loved full body spinners but a design i saw some one else do was a design i had as a kid that is completely useless again metal armor or full scale bot, but in smaller classes where plastic is mostly used it works better than it should. the design im talking about is an over head saw design that cuts from above and would slice right through most plastic, but its been done and its devastating
I've ALWAYS wanted to get into this hobby ever since I was a little kid. I've loved watching battlebots but I've never had the opportunity to get into it. But now I have experience with 3d printing, my new printer is on the way, and I'll be making good pay at my new job I'm hoping I can print off and start doing my own little robots. Maybe do some planes or boats also. Love the video!
Deathroll with domed 360 degree bumpers to get under and flip your opponent then cut them to ribbons would be awesome!
Bread is heavy. Could you use aluminum inserts with aluminum or titanium screws to save a bit more on weight and get in the bits you want? Or eliminate the inserts and go to self tapping screws?
I think a vertical spinner that looks a bit like a crab's claws would be cool
One side of the claw would be the rotating blade and the other side would be an arm that is there to keep the blade from touching the ground and getting under the ramped robots
but its actual function is to steer other robots in the direction of the blade
(on one side is the blade and on the other the arm so there is no escape)
There is no other arm on the opposite side so that there is nothing in the way of the blade if the arm should somehow get in the way on the one side (other robot is too big or keeps getting stuck on the arm. ..)