I made a mini deathroll... and it's INSANE!

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[@user-ec7uu9ch7n]

Look out for scammers guys. I had someone try tell me I won the giveaway.

[@MakersMuse]

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!

[@colinmanlives]

How will you contact the winner?

[@MakersMuse]

@@colinmanlives Future video.

[@RandomSmith]

@@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.

[@hmm11111ooo]

Same here, his english was so bad, no way this was Angus. Probably some fat chinese dude.

[@cavinrauch]

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.

[@MakersMuse]

Hehe ty. Couldn't resist adding some nice reverb to the menacing arming sound.

[@baderyasin]

@@MakersMuse name of the track please 🙏

[@CollinJS]

Same, that was epic! The dramatic synth with those beeps instantly reminded me of Shotgun King

[@arunyadavvv14]

@@MakersMuse i have texted u in telegram

[@MakersMuse]

That's a scammer! sorry.

[@colehickman3757]

It's just a silly little guy

[@africkingupsidedownmountai7362]

Just a funny lil dude

[@lousboards]

Just a goofy wacky fella

[@nado121]

What a rascal

[@noelsnave9395]

Little silly goose

[@Bad-Vertisements]

Wow. Look at that little man go

[@TjinDeDjen]

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.

[@onesadtech]

Never heard of this before, sounds like a great idea though.

[@dan-nutu]

Look closer at any tungsten carbide tipped drill bit and you'll see exactly this

[@lgazak]

This tbh

[@ternocimadh5863]

Der Bro hat eif Titan studiert

[@alyero6341]

maybe titanium nitrade (golden coating on drill bits - super hard) could be an option?

[@isaiahschell]

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!

[@alyandthecats]

I can't believe a 150g bot sounds that lethal! Great job with mini Deathroll, you really nailed it!

[@chdreturns]

Believe it

[@michaeldahlinger5626]

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!

[@UncleJessy]

Oh man and you used Naomi’s new insert tool 😍 seriously awesome build!

[@MakersMuse]

It's so good!!!

[@RiverWilliamson]

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

[@rishabnavadgi3116]

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.

[@plasticlawnchair7197]

Dude I used to be on a Vex team, graduated after Spin Up! What team are/were you on?

[@rishabnavadgi3116]

@@plasticlawnchair7197 hey, I’m on 8780B. We are an IL team. What team were you on

[@plasticlawnchair7197]

@@rishabnavadgi3116 I was on 2114R from Arizona

[@oldsjunkie1]

@@rishabnavadgi3116 Cool! I designed and printed 200 coins for team 29766 out of Indiana for the 2019 championships in KY.

[@AdityaPrakash-kt3rf]

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!

[@Wizarth]

I love the way everyone comes over to check out what's making that terrifying spin up sound.

[@coachster]

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.

[@plasmapanasonic4741]

Do it brah

[@Trouble_2X]

Looks amazing and great explanation of how you made it. I should mention that you saying it might be the most powerful antweight spinner might be correct for Australia but it isn't in other countries. Either way the fact that it is almost a perfectly scaled down deathroll and it works well without being designed around that weight class is very impressive.

[@ReedCBowman]

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.

[@flyingcharlie6073]

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)

[@Fennecfanboy]

or you could just have a wedge

[@DragonMG2]

Has anyone else got a scam for telegram me saying that you won?

[@jaarbear]

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.

[@BeefIngot]

I feel like that carbon fiber would deteriorate within a match or 2 with the repeated stresses

[@SuperLuminalMan]

@@BeefIngot Replace after every match, to get the most out of high performance material

[@zjanez2868]

@@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

[@madmachanicest9955]

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

[@avelkm]

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.

[@jman145]

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.

[@MontaCodeProductions]

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 😂

[@Timko122]

fantastic build. I really like the titanium colour

[@BuildyBryce]

Great project! Mini Deathroll looks clean!

[@PCBWay]

Fully agreed & glad to meet you here ☺

[@ogfoxhound]

Love the setup, bot, and the class limit. Would love to build something like that. Awesome work

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

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!

[@lizrrdbreath]

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.

[@lizrrdbreath]

@makersmuse it looks like you have a phisher in the comments

[@Happy3dprinting]

@@lizrrdbreathI got similar message, definitely a scam

[@jacojacobs05]

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😊

[@dip8]

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

[@arenhill1557]

Dibs on a picture with Tantrum and Blip with tiny Deathroll at Opensauce

[@crispy_338]

Would love to do a super-capacitor bot that just blows the other bots up with a light touch 😂

[@emeraldseason]

😂 good luck sneaking that in!

[@robofighthq]

What a beautiful and clean design!

[@jameslmorehead]

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.

[@shittinator]

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.

[@jessicabradfield7888]

That would have to be an INSANELY strong bot WOW!

[@biaxolotl5171]

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.

[@SaS-Music]

Thanks for sharing. Always enjoy your videos. 👍🏼

[@EarthEngineMelbourne]

HI Maker's Muse do you have already videos talks about the Z-offset variations between filaments. I just find out, the Z-offset is very stable when I change filaments between ABS/PLA/PETG filaments for using 3.9mm as Z-offset, but as soon as I switched to use Wood filament (PLA based) I suddenly need to set it to 4.0mm to have good bed adherence. The same setting for other filaments will be too small and starts to observe elephant foots.

[@jb-br8bf]

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.

[@MakersMuse]

That's so cool! Doesn't matter how good your bot is as long as you're having fun building and competing.

[@jb-br8bf]

@@MakersMuse it is a lot of fun. Currently designing my first beetleweight!

[@bendover-bz4bc]

​@@jb-br8bfyou need to make KZbin videos about your bots. I also want to learn to make these bots at home but I'm completely rookie to electronics.

[@qe7793]

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.

[@peytonharrell9935]

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

[@chdreturns]

Triple Crown wasn't completed by the time it "fought". I think the only thing working was its drive.

[@cszulewski]

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

[@jamestruman4384]

Awesome build - this video makes us want to build our own! I like your design style.

[@xethknight]

Please more 3d printing with combat robots 🔥❤

[@avelkm]

on the main channel!)

[@circleofowls]

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."

[@HateHater2205]

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!

[@BraydenComer-ud2mg]

Thanks for the great content Angus. I would build a robot with a similar flipping mechanism to your second control robot and a more enclosed body but possible smaller scale so as to have the extra weight to add extra features and change it to better suite me. That mechanism seemed very effective and a good weapon that cost less. I would use PCBway and injection mold with nylon while still keeping a budget for lack of a expensive weapon blade though still making a very effective battle bot.

[@W0B0N]

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.

[@jasperdaniels9045]

My 2 favourite bots have always been hypno disc and razer. The pure destruction of hypno disc led to some incredible moments and watching razer just bite down on anything it could grab and just bite right through it. Not sure how transmittable razer is, can't imagine any system even relatively close could be light. But hypno is just a horizontal flywheel with some special teeth. Been considering getting into combat bots but I'm already time starved as is, reckon it'll be a side project eventually though

[@richard-likes-to-travel]

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

[@theexchipmunk]

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.

[@AussieMich]

Nice to see more footage of the workshop

[@coulterjb22]

Love your vids! I hope there are local manufacturers to support, based in Australia. Local first, country second.

[@gunraptor]

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.

[@kengineer09]

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.

[@Furiora]

Beautiful design and damn that blade is scary, the SPEEEEEEEEEN on that little man in insane! Unsure if the compatition is still on, but I'll share this regardless, I just love nerding out about combat robots. My ultimate robot design is actually one I've had in my head in various forms throughout most of my life. Firewyrm is a 4 wheel drive, invertable, skid-steer, dual spinner design. Looking from the top, the body has an enlongated chevron design, sort of like a sergeant's emblem. The main weapon is a horizontal single-tooth disk at the pointy end of the design, with a single-tooth bar alternate for fighting verts, while the secondary is a vertical drum spinner housed in the center of the two rear fins. The paint scheme is that of a menacing red dragon, the forward point looking like a snout with a pair of evil yellow eyes while the underside has a decoration of belly plates, which aside from being stylish also lets me easily tell which way up it is at a glance.

[@speakp4ngolin]

Probably the most polished Antweight/Fairy I have ever seen; Looking great!

[@magicmanspaz]

Wow that is actually really easy anodizing the Ti. Thanks for the info.

[@alexanderreid5812]

I am currently in the process of designing/building a robot that is a crusher (similar to Razer or Quantum), but the beak has a drill on it to deal more damage, and prevent the crushed robot from getting stuck to the beak. Thank you for all the videos and content! Your channel is awesome!

[@youtubeSuckssNow]

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.

[@lourenco3216]

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.

[@IOUaUsername]

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.

[@anthonystownsend]

After I saw you last Combat Robot video I got intrigued and found there's a combat robot league near me and have been designing in OnShape. For the Titanium spinner I'd mount it in the middle of the body and have a circular wedge type body, almost like a lifter, to get underneath the opponent and force it into the spinning blade.

[@Fossilnet]

One thing I would like to point out about h mjf pa12 is that if you would like an increase in elongation at break probably look into seeing if pcbway could do a vapor smoothing process, or maybe look into the material property of pa11 as that is an option for mjf printers.

[@LeftoverBeefcake]

WOW that is pure solid electro-mechanical awesomeness!!! And it's so unbelievably tiny!

[@OneLabToRuleThemAll]

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.

[@chrisparis3808]

I think I might try to do something with a diagonal rotor. It would be difficult to engineer and look a little weird, but I think going for a junker design would work well with it. Maybe working into it design that leaves very few stable orientations other than wheels down, maybe by having spikes jut out Mad Max style, would be pretty beneficial as well

[@iamburnzombie3271]

Ive had the idea for a long time of a combat robot that uses the same type of "blade" as a weed wacker. You can get serrated steel weed wacker blades and theyre fairly lightweight which allows then to spin up to very high speeds and then they eat up everything in their path. Ive created the beginning CAD model in the past year, but havent had the time or money to build the bot.

[@Zeldalovesme]

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!

[@20100lude92]

Fluffy some of the most effective and compact pioneers of horizontal spinner. Robot War S5. the thing had a petrol engine. Brings us back

[@BraxtonMeyer]

i love this yt channel. Death Roll is epic, it takes a kicking and keeps on licking.

[@paulriggs42]

Awesome build !

[@OCDRex11]

Heck, I'd be so thrilled just to even compete!!! I have watched Battle Bots since the first airings way back in the early 2000's. I wouldn't even know what I would design but a titanium disc spinning at 30,000 rpm would certainly be part of it! Great video!

[@abigsillay5226]

One of the first combat robots I was going to build was a robot very similar to the robot named Droopy from NHRL, with two large overhead horizontal spinners, intersecting, but unfortunately due to budget and a lack of experience, had to put it on hold, but I hope to revisit the idea one day

[@LucasPlay171]

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.

[@ifell3]

Yes, zip tie roll cage, love it 🤙

[@plasticchair8541]

i think mini biteforce can be interesting. A bot based on tanking and self-flip while can flip other components aswell. With a two stable steel claws and a steel front blocker/ ramp, it can be quite interesting to watch against opponents with a strong spinning stuffs.

[@projectafterworld2557]

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.

[@shaneh7519]

5:45 what a cool tool. I did my first insert the other day and wow was it horrible. I printed it with the recommended hole, but the insert ended up melting off center and leaving a big gap. Luckily it’s still strong enough, but next time maybe I’ll make a chamfer or something to guide it in place?

[@fjniedercorn]

Hello, Just wanted to say Hi and thank you for setting me in 3D printing. Legit channel and full of good advices.

[@exzir34]

I'm a big fan of horizontal spinners, I'd love to see the difference in design between one built for that!

[@adlz518]

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.

[@Happy3dprinting]

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 😂

[@psycholocke4090]

I wish you a really pleasant trip!!! So many of my favorite makers will be there, I think it will be awesome. I never have seen a spherical battle bot. But I also didn't have a good idea to weaponize it. Pneumatic spikes punching outwards? In some movie there was a trap like a ball that crippled the hands if held to long... Man I don't remember the title.

[@animalsaver6717]

Wish I could have went but didn’t get tickets in time😢

[@nicoladiiorio8898]

the blade spinning that fast works also as gyroscope making it more difficult to flip

[@FriedCuttlefish]

The very second you said "Battlebots", an incomprehensible wave of nostalgia was sent through my entire body, and I felt it all.

[@iristhewitch_]

omg it's adorable. yay Naomi!!

[@wizrom3046]

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.

[@brunoczyz1185]

My idea for an ant weight b-bot: it would be called "the hider", the hider would be basically a box made of polycarbonate with vertical titanium sheets (up to a 0.7 cm long) connected on the top to nicely slide onto the engraved plastic for protection against horizontal spinning weapons (best in ant weight) and for easy repair. It would also have silicon rubber on the bottom edges. Why? Because it could ''hide'' by moving it's two wheels up so the robot would stand still. The hider would do that really quickly so it would have a better chance of not falling into the pit and getting itself more time to push the other opponent. The hider also wouldn't have a roof so a double-sided moving mechanism would work even if the robot is flipped. I hope to get this piece as I'm not able to make one myself but I also wish everyone else good luck.

[@vergil2763]

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.

[@MihirJain-ps5xb]

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.

[@Shovel________________]

i find the tiny battlebots so funny. all of them are so light that the smallest hit sends both opponents to the other side of the arena.

[@DanielLink-nf8hr]

Hey Angus! I've loved battlebots since I was a kid. Dream robot would be an axe/flipper/spinner cross with the flipper ramp would open revealing a spinner blade but also doubling as a crusher.

[@LohStultus]

Such a fan of Tombstone, it was such an iconic build!

[@Shothii]

This thing is insane, my guy

[@Ull3Rnet]

A very thin, springy robot, that could drive itself under the opponents and flip em by releasing the spring mechanism.. havnt figured out the rest yet, but that's what came to mind! Keep up the good work :)

[@Triantor]

It seems to me you could have a blade which encompasses the entire bot spinning horizontally, preventing anything from actually getting close. Effectively the entire outer frame becomes a spinning blade, with a conical shell so that wheels can lift it up and drive it, keeping the blade just off the ground.

[@techtimeteddy]

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.

[@PyroRobo]

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.

[@450gmo]

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.

[@PUNCHEDPUNCHEDPUNCHED]

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

[@arrow2000m]

I would do something similar to deathroll. Instead of a singular spinning blade it would you a pair of counter rotating blade set at an angle to each other. This would allow the blades to cover a larger area and having each one be a counter rotating set would hopefully keep it balanced.

[@CK3DLLC]

This is what I love about 3d printing. it gives anyone the ability to create their wildest dreams.

[@wadeoler1458]

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

[@MakersMuse]

That's not a bad idea! I'll play with some prototypes

[@_ninthRing_]

You could try reinforcing those stress points with Epoxy & Carbon Fibre Tape. Also, a couple of 2-4mm wide sections of 30mm diameter rubber hose may work ok as upright bouncers (especially with the incredible torque from the Titanium spinner). If the weight gets (just barely) too much, out with the Dremel to grind out a couple of holes (here & there).

[@aprilscherz1233]

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

[@Zoltan54]

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!

[@Cubez4life]

My dream battle bot would be one that was short and hide and would slot a sort of arm undder the other bot and then flipped it up in the air. It would then have a spinning blade or wheel that would be on top and smash into the opponents bot. Thank you for the good content!!