Cereal Box BattleBot: the Path to Victory!

[@jacquelinemiller355]

I can't believe you didn't call your bot Cereal Killer.

[@TheCulturedMan34]

Damn you was thinking that. Or Trix R4 Bots if it was a trix box

[@joegrant4245]

That's an awesome name!

[@TheSteakJustice]

Probably too close to Serial Box Killer who was on TV

[@itsfitzpatrick790]

A tip would be to add better traction and stronger wheel power

[@Lumakid100]

The OG Krave Monster in his natural habitat.

[@niIIer1]

Holy shit dude your driving is perfect. It would be amazing if you made a heavyweight version of Krave and entered BB.

[@CarterHurd]

Well I'm not going to scale up Krave (there is no pit to throw opponents into), but I am applying for BB! Involved with two different hopeful teams actually. Gonna try some wild stuff

[@niIIer1]

AltaPowderDog I was thinking about using the hammers but I forgot how bad those actually are.

[@themutantcreeperstv96]

Kinda like mega tento

[@justjack796]

TheMutant Creepers ya except mega sucks and krave bot doesnt

[@pavelthefabulous5675]

It would be like Mega Tento, but it wouldn't suck!

[@HamsterWheelGaming]

The Harambe bot at the end was hilarious

[@VestedUTuber]

It's not just Harambe, it's Harambe driving a Zamboni.

[@Ethan-ck6iz]

It's mega tento, but it actually works

[@callenhunger3769]

Dude, congrats on the championship! My first robot was a lifter made of a captain crunch box. I was going to call him captain crush, but changed it to Burn Box after I burned out a servo in it. I built a second robot out of tougher cardboard, based on Dantomkia from Robot Wars. I still haven't named it, though. I became chief engineer of my school robotics club, and we fight them every day we can!

[@CarterHurd]

Congratulations, and sounds like fun!

[@ThePapaUra]

AltaPowderDog Can you add the motor mounts from danger zone 2.0 to your thingiverse file on it? Also I think that 10 days till destruction is a fingertech robotics viper kit with a spinner add on. Maybe you should enter one this year.

[@loganhughes2935]

What do u do in robotics club?

[@alexsalchemy]

This is the video that inspired me to build my combat robot, thank you for your hard work and for continuing to deliver awesome content!

[@walletwarrior4322]

You should get paid for promoting there cereal xD

[@J13Arrowz]

Congrats! Just goes to show you don't need to have an expensive robot to win.

[@VestedUTuber]

To be fair, I wouldn't say that this would be a cheap bot to build. Cheap on materials, yes, but most of the money goes into electronics. That being said, if you scrounge around for good prices you could probably build something competitive for under $200.

[@ThugNugget_.45]

VestedUTuber this wasn't very competitive though.

[@BlackLightningRobotics]

I mean, it won...

[@Splagnet]

I was there! Nice win, everyone like the krave monster.

[@jamesweir139]

I was eating Krave Cereal for my first time and wanted to see how it was made and came across your video! Watched til the first take down, well done!) Kept watching and found the other battles to be quite funny. I can see why people get into battle bots:)

[@loganhughes2935]

I can't tell u how many times I have watched this video. I love it!

[@Yenrabbit]

Well done! looks like a ton of fun, and hilarious to see a cereal box take victory!

[@foreveryoung7582]

dude this version of danger zone was the most sketch thing ever HAHA

[@joegrant4245]

Great video. I like how to took the time to explain what worked and what didn't.

[@AzurePain]

That was incredible :) . Good job!

[@ZetkoCZ60]

You should add like a little pusher inside the cereal box monster :D

[@CarterHurd]

It was hard to kick them out of the mouth, yes. However I could have just driven into the trap door all those times, the robot who has control is viewed as falling into the trap door last

[@CarterHurd]

....or are you suggesting a.. multibot antweight?

[@ThePapaUra]

+AltaPowderDog Next year make a full body spinner.

[@ThePapaUra]

If you make redrum 2.0 can you upload the 3d printed parts to thingverse and make a parts list?

[@datguy8805]

AltaPowderDog was this the birth of the idea

[@davariusaz]

Awesome fights! Congrats on the victories!

[@ProDreamCrusher]

For a cardboard box Krave is amazing good.

[@tmlrobotics5446]

I went to see you compete yesterday. I loved seeing such a goofy bot win! I plan to enter a bot next year. Good luck in the future.

[@themutantcreeperstv96]

TML ProductionsTM good luck man!

[@tmlrobotics5446]

TheMutant Creepers Thanks!

[@-fazik-3713]

Best robot ever :D. Thanks and Gratz!

[@Coboxite]

Congrats on winning with a cereal box. If it wasn't for Dark Pounder(And my own work with my forward hinged flipper), I would love to make my own version. Shame that DZ met an unfortunate end. Hopefully its next build will make it even better.

[@CarterHurd]

DZ might be reincarnated as a flipper... Maybe. We shall see haha

[@ThePapaUra]

AltaPowderDog Keep it as a drum spinner.

[@loganhughes2935]

U should challenge the michanical ninjineer to a battle bot fight

[@chefboiarby304]

i think 10 days to destruction is a fingertech viper kit with a custom saw blade

[@gregorjefferson6610]

I love Crave cereal

[@Slikx666]

I'd say that the cereal box robot is in the best designed fighting robots I've seen. And I'm taking into account all categories, weights and countries. I don't think I would work if you made a small version to enter into an antweight fight, but I think it would work in the next weight category up. With the drum spinner robot you could mount the motor inside the drum and use the planetary gears from a cordless drill to drive it at a good speed with good torque. This would help by not having any drive belts etc exposed. Keep building and maybe I'll see you in battle.

[@imashovel2747]

If you can, try adding a drum inside the mouth to deal damage when the opponent gets inside like mega tento from battlebots

[@CarterHurd]

Weight. This thing is 12" x 11" by 4", has four drive wheels and a clamp, and is only 1lb. It's already about 1/4th as dense as any of the other antweights. One year I built two 1/2 lb ones, and that video shows just how poor they do when you try stripping out things like the extra two drive wheels in the name of weight. So I could try to add a drum, and it would be possible, but it would do worse in competition. Fewer weapons = more effective. It's best to pick one weapon (clamp, drum, flipper, hammer) and do it really well, especially when you are in a really low weight class and only have 1 lb to work with. Whenever I try multiple weapons (dual Kraves & my latest triangle bot) I'm doing that for fun, not because it's a good design decision if you want to win. BattleBots is a bit different, because there is no trap door. I'm lucky that CIRC has that trap door, it makes control bots more competitive

[@robynb7083]

I was there leave was pretty fun to watch

[@Talguy21]

In that post-finals picture, was that 10 Days' blade as a souvenir? Hilarious fights, and great driving of this derpy thing. At the time, did you expect your joke bot to do nearly that well?

[@asianfarmer5658]

There might not be a lot of explosions but at least this is something that looks fun to do and I'm 11 so I wanna make a pusher bot made of Pringle bottles

[@loganhughes2935]

Are u entering a bot this year. I would love anouther video! I think u should build anouther beetleweight because there is more destruction in those matches.

[@CarterHurd]

I am! I haven't really started building yet (12 more days..), but I have 2 ants and 1 beetle spot. Krave will probably return, I'll make a spinner for the 2nd ant, and then I'm not sure what the beetle will be. Perhaps a 2nd try with King Googly.

[@loganhughes2935]

AltaPowderDog ok that sounds great. My battle bot competition is in September.

[@loganhughes2935]

AltaPowderDog I think u should try and make a horizontal spinner for one of them.

[@CamdenWallraff]

Grats on the win, shame my hockey puck of death never got a chance to fight krave in the tournament bracket :P

[@CarterHurd]

Your hockey puck of death would have been difficult to keep track of and actually get in the mouth- it was quite zippy and impossible to tell what direction the wheels were pointing. Woulda been a cool fight. Maybe next year

[@chdreturns]

+AltaPowderDog Are you going to rebuild Krave out of sturdier material now that its proven itself?

[@CarterHurd]

If I have time next summer, yes! I'll probably keep some foam on the exterior though, because it's fun to see carnage

[@TheTotalGeek]

Awesome! Well done 😃

[@StupidRobotFightingLeague]

Awesome man!

[@supergamerdeluxe6213]

I'm building a 1 pound robot called cinnamon toast crusher which is a cinnamon toast crunch churro box and if I have weight I will add a spinner to it which looks like 2 churros

[@loganhughes2935]

Did you get a prize for winning?

[@Kyeaeaea]

Do you think it would be possible for maybe even easy to add some sort of lever on the roof of the mouth to lock them in

[@ThyrusEvo]

I need to rebuild Krave in RA2 :D

[@daggius]

that was great

[@bryanjames1376]

How much did it cost to make the bot?

[@lobot4780]

-350 dollars after getting sponsored by Krave Cereal

[@vxseven7]

I made a battlebot out of a rc car took the plastic skin of made armor than a saw it's name is Rumble Rover

[@heishizixingk]

风骚走位，天才之作。

[@meslyguzman1647]

Hi @altasprojects I have a 6year old nephew who is obsessed with these robots and I would like to see if I could buy one of these cereal robots from you? I would like to gift it to him for Christmas

[@TheRisingStorm316]

You could just build one yourself. You’d need an R/C car, some hobby gear-motors, and an Arduino for starters.

[@brodinigotmagic5972]

A cereal box won? Really?

[@Jbox-gy3cd]

Make a video on how to make the hockey puck of death please

[@teamscrewup1809]

Jbox 9566 he can't as he doesn't own the robot

[@loganhughes2935]

How do u make your videos? Also what do u use to make the voice overs?

[@Star-pl1xs]

s o g o o d

[@BeaverBotics2]

congrats on the win! are we going to see a new version Krave monster in the future, or is he retired to work on other projects?

[@CarterHurd]

I have no idea! I have too many projects to complete them all with school and work. If it does get rebuilt it won't be the same though: maybe something new with the same Krave theme, or a significant upgrade to the pusherbot part

[@ubergamer0198]

3 lb krave with lots of aluminium, and more powerful drive

[@nico43714]

Is this a beetle weight classes? o:

[@CarterHurd]

Nope, ant!

[@nico43714]

Ohhh looks awesome :D but i think you should make your bot metalic next time for more endurance D:

[@lobot4780]

If he did that it would be too heavy to be an ant.

[@sparky3239]

krave monster is a serial killer

[@datguy8805]

If you were to remake danger zone id make him an egg beater

[@CarterHurd]

I agree, eggbeaters work great in the smaller weight classes. I'd just need to find a place to get the weapon machined..

[@datguy8805]

AltaPowderDog maybe you could get it candy dyed its not incredibly difficult if i remember correctly... but i dont remember exactly how to do it and what the vid was, it was about a titanium ring if i remember correctly

[@datguy8805]

AltaPowderDog nvm it was timascus and i was a tired idiot. Nvm again, candy still played a part in its color

[@loganhughes2935]

.... Goes to show when you build a drumb spinner make as many teeth on the drum as you can. And make your battle bot invertable

[@CarterHurd]

Most experienced builders believe the ideal number of teeth for a drum is one. This maximizes bite. Opponents with ablative armor (like foam) are a rairly encountered exception

[@loganhughes2935]

But u can get more hits in with more teeth right?

[@CarterHurd]

Yes, but the main goal for most destructive weapons isn't more small hits, the main goal is to catch a big chunk of the opponent and rip it off or send them flying into the air. For this you need to get a good bite on the opponent. A single tooth let's you get this, because you can drive closer to them before that one tooth comes back around, so it catches a bigger chunk of them. It's a bit counterintuitive, but this explanation from Ask Aaron is a good one: "bite is the maximum depth of opponent insertion into the arc of a spinning weapon at a given weapon RPM and forward velocity.... What's the diffference between a little bite and a lot of bite? More match wins! Bite is good, and more bite is better"

[@loganhughes2935]

Alta's Projects oh ok. But doesn't yeti have a lot of teeth on that drumb? And he is s one of the best battle bots alive!

[@CarterHurd]

Yeti is fantastic. It's got 4 teeth, two on one side two on the other (so essentially two teeth locations per 1 rotation). It's a good configuration that's easier to balance than a single tooth drum like Minotaur uses, but won't get quite as much bite as a single tooth would. Yeti runs their drum a bit slower as a result (faster drums store more energy but it's harder to get a good bite at high rpm, two teeth locations per rotation means they can't run quite as fast and still get good bite as minitour can get away with)

[@Celestial_Wing]

Waka, waka, waka

[@bljle3604]

What kind of control do you use

[@ivansalcedo9495]

What kind of person names their bot "No"?

[@chefboiarby304]

i think it was short for no fear

[@BlackLightningRobotics]

"No" was the father's bot on a father-son team. The son said "no" to every name idea the father had, so as a dad joke he named the bot "No."

[@sandrabustamante3524]

Krave monster rules

[@loganhughes2935]

What rpm are your drive motors?

[@CarterHurd]

LNDS Studios 100rpm, with large wheels. I'm switching to 300rpm this year, this Krave was slow. Many other builders use much faster (~1000rpm) motors with smaller wheels.

[@loganhughes2935]

Alta's Projects ok good because I just ordered some 1000 rpm motors! Thanks!

[@gillbrook6418]

How heavy is this category?

[@CarterHurd]

1 lb.

[@gillbrook6418]

Thanks :)

[@hilaire35]

I *KRAVE* CEREAL

[@thomasheath8425]

where is this?

[@CarterHurd]

Peoria Civic Center in central Illinois

[@thomasheath8425]

AltaPowderDog so it's American?

[@CarterHurd]

Yes

[@thomasheath8425]

AltaPowderDog damn, but thanks

[@AddisonButts]

id die for krave monster

[@baconpantsable]

Death has googly eyes