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Knightrous
Site Admin
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 8511
Location: NSW
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The Slightly Blurry, Sleep Deprived Event Report
The build for FarmBoy/Immortan was pretty shit, no need to rehash this.
Pre-Event
I finished the robot at 3AM, armouring it up in wood and paper because I thought it was going to be overweight, turned out to be 1kg under weight and I could have used 5mm aluminium everywhere...
Arrived at the event, put the battery on charge and found 10 minutes later that it had postal and was ready to explode. Carefully disassembled the robot to remove it. Unfortunately Hobby King hard fucked Glen and I over in the fortnight before by not shipping our order of spare batteries........ spare batteries.... spare.....
My only spares were a pair of 18.5v 4500mAh batteries that were way too big to fit in the chassis. Shit... Epic robot community to the rescue, Miles gave me a 14.8v 2000mAh that was tiny and fitted in the chassis. This was Kojacks only spare pack, but he still lent it to me. Lots of bro love, Miles!
Was worried the robot would be a bit down on power going from 22.2v to 14.8v, but beggers can't be choosers. (24v weapon motor, running on nearly 12v gives it 1/4 the power, lucky it's a feckin big motor with lots of gearing)
Fight One - FarmBoy VS Kojack
Trololololol. He lends me a battery and then we have to fight first up. Fight went the distance with a lot of dancing and lifting. I 'think' I remember Kojack was having some control issues towards the last half of the match and I was able to smack some agression into him along with a couple of lifts/flips. Goes to a judges decision and FarmBoy is declared the winner.
Fight Two - FarmBoy VS Das Boot
Well I think we've done this before... I think I'm just going to make Das Butt the official rival of FarmBoy (Kojack a close second, because it has FarmBoy 1.0's weapon assembly). So just like in 2013, this match barely goes 20 seconds and history repeats itself. Dat Boot gets a a perfect flip on FarmBoy and just like last time, the weapon failed! Instead of the pinion gear slipping like in 2013, the bloody chain derailed and I couldn't self right.... Win by KO to Dos Boob
Fight Three - FarmBoy VS Zoidberg
Best Match Ever. Just total ownage of Zoidberg by Farmboy. The best way to sum up the fight is to just watch it.
http://youtu.be/PgeT89UU-HI
Win by Ass Whooping - Farmboy
Fight Four - FarmBoy VS Brutus
Newcomer Adam with a Burshless powered axe built in conjunction with Dylon. Looked good, but it had one MAJOR weakness.... Dylon and his insatiable love for Kmart 18V Drills. I'm a bit hazy on the match, but there was a lot of trading of hits, lifts and eventually the chain broke on Brutus, leaving Farmboy to toss it around the arena like a smoldering Kmart drill.
Winner - Farmboy
Fight Five - Farmboy VS Kojack
Here I said, same as ever.
Borrowed a battery, battled clever.
Took on Kojack, jumped the chain.
Lost the battle, damn it again.
Winner by Judgement Decisiveness - Kojack
Post-Event
This nugget robot keeps me motivated for some retarded reason. Despite it's epic amounts of dodgy features (box section bearings bro!) it still did awesome things like the crazy spinning break dancing. I'm going to rebuild it to fix some of the crap rush work.
The BotBitz GM45's worked well as drive motors so actually keen to keep them in the robot now instead of the Dewalts. Just need to design the whole robot to be more serviceable. _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
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