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Re: re-starting the hobby
Yeah the number of parts that get thrown off robots by spinners could easily take out some audience members if it wasn't for the requirement that spinner-friendly arenas have to have a protective cocoon of polycarb.
Sounds like a good plan for your first FW to go for a non-spinner, that way it allows you to compete in more than one or two events a year and gives you a chance to try out your robot without worrying about encountering a spinner in your first ever battle.
To be honest though, even though there are some powerful brushless motor-powered spinners emerging, the age-old idea that every match against a spinner results in your robot being taken home in a bin bag in bits doesn't really hold true anymore. A robot doesn't need to be severly over-armoured to survive a spinner. As long as the general construction is quite robust and perhaps carries some thicker armour in the more exposed places, the majority of damage will probably be some torn edges or a ripped panel or two, simple repair job.
A four-wheel drive robot with a 'tasty little lifter' is pretty much the setup of one of my robots, Kaizer. It was really nippy around the arena but it's currently in bits because my teammate enjoyed driving it full-pelt into both the arena walls and the opponents' spinning discs, and I didn't really construct it robustly
Also, the tasty little lifter was actually quite slow and didn't get used much but it was a nice setup to have and could've been good at controlling a battle if the robot didn't handle like a five-year-old kid high on E-numbers!
So yeah, what all that rambling translates to is me saying that your plan of a Storm II inspired 4WD lifter robot is a solid platform for a good featherweight robot
Yeah the number of parts that get thrown off robots by spinners could easily take out some audience members if it wasn't for the requirement that spinner-friendly arenas have to have a protective cocoon of polycarb.
Sounds like a good plan for your first FW to go for a non-spinner, that way it allows you to compete in more than one or two events a year and gives you a chance to try out your robot without worrying about encountering a spinner in your first ever battle.
To be honest though, even though there are some powerful brushless motor-powered spinners emerging, the age-old idea that every match against a spinner results in your robot being taken home in a bin bag in bits doesn't really hold true anymore. A robot doesn't need to be severly over-armoured to survive a spinner. As long as the general construction is quite robust and perhaps carries some thicker armour in the more exposed places, the majority of damage will probably be some torn edges or a ripped panel or two, simple repair job.
A four-wheel drive robot with a 'tasty little lifter' is pretty much the setup of one of my robots, Kaizer. It was really nippy around the arena but it's currently in bits because my teammate enjoyed driving it full-pelt into both the arena walls and the opponents' spinning discs, and I didn't really construct it robustly
Also, the tasty little lifter was actually quite slow and didn't get used much but it was a nice setup to have and could've been good at controlling a battle if the robot didn't handle like a five-year-old kid high on E-numbers!
So yeah, what all that rambling translates to is me saying that your plan of a Storm II inspired 4WD lifter robot is a solid platform for a good featherweight robot
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