We were all noobs once...

[pcbore]

We were all noobs once...

My first bot was designed under the old Just write a descriptive paragraph system

[swiss_tony]

We were all noobs once...

I dont think I neeed to say anything here. You all remember.

[andrewj]

We were all noobs once...

The first vapourbot I made was no better than Tims Fairground Killride. It made its debut about 6 years ago defeating Psychosprout in the Steven Superstar Tournament. I present to you... Ripper!

Name: Ripper
weight: 90kg
dimensions: W-30cm, L-50cm, H-20cm
clearance: 0.1 cm
power: 2 motorbike batteries and 2 lorry windscreen wiper motors
Armour: titanium with steel weapons and steel frame
weapons: two steel fixed spikes (front), high speed/power chain saw at 750rpm (between front spikes) mounted on a co2 powered ram, rear flywheel at 800rpm
notes: ram is used for slamming the chainsaw onto other bots flipping bots and acts as rippers SHRIMEC
flywheel has 30 teeth
26 teeth on chainsaw

We could have a field day with that in the How Could I Improve thread.

[davids]

We were all noobs once...

At least your weapons are clear, unlike Timmys gyroscopic thingie which is powered by 6 motors!

[knightrous]

We were all noobs once...

Got an original copy of my first vapourbot Disctruction (circa 2002) on this computer somewhere...

Twas a 200kg monster, walker with a 50kg vert flywheel powered by modified starter motors, running on around 120 x 5000mAh NiCds... Drives were Magmotors IIRC. Had a rear hinge flipper powered by the kinetic energy from the flywheel too.

Even have a crappy rhino render Ill post it when I find where it is in my 2+TB of hard disk

[kodster]

We were all noobs once...

The original Wedginator had a huge flipper and two vertical discs at the back. It had aluminium armour as well.

And yeah, this was way back in the RW Forums in 2002 :P