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[matty_haka]

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Hacked off Ha-ka

Weight- 89.4kg- (WDOR)
Dimensions- H- 40cm, L- 1m, W- 70cm
Speed- 13.3mph or 5.3 m/s
Shape- 2 x 35 degree wedges about 40cm long, with a 3ocm box section in the middle.
Locomotion- 4x Solid aluminium hubs with old karting wets around it
Ground Clearance- 1mm at sides, 3mm at rear, 0 at front
Turning Circle- 0
Power- 4x Dustin motors running on 36V powered by 3 TMC 36V batteries/ They produce a total of 8.84BHp
Armour- 5mm Aluminium Boron Carbide
Weapon 1- A larger hammer than before weighing 11.5kg. It runs off some very nice 1000psi nitrogen rams, and produces around 4 tonnes at the beginning and about 2.7 towards the end. At the beginning I€™d say it€™d cut through 8mm titanium in 2 or 3 swift hits. It€™s double sided, with one Terrorhurtz style blade, and one Mortis one.
Weapon 2- A small strip of ti/vanadium alloy that should enable each wedge to slide under easier
Removable Link Position- Under a small 6mm steel electromagnetically secured panel at the back of the robot.
Srimech- invertible, but the axe will right it if necessary due to the fact that the head is angled back into a hole, which keeps the head inside the body.
Strengths- Powerful weaponry, Manouvreable, good acceleration, well armoured
Weaknesses- Not the best pushing power, limited CO2.

[matty_haka]

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Roo Cubed

Weight- 97.8kg (Weight distribution available on request)
Dimensions- H- 17.5cm D- 130cm
Speed- 15mph in driving speed.
Shape- Low wide cylinder. This time though, the ends go slightly into curved wedge mode by abut 2cm. At this point, the ring armour narrows down to about 4mm titanium.
Ground Clearance- Around 5.5mm
Turning Circle- 0
Armour- 2mm titanium over 2mm Polypropylene over another layer of 2mm titanium.
Locomotion- 4-x air filled tyres with expansive hole-filling mousse inserted in order to prevent puncturing.
Power- 4 x S28-150 Magmotors running at 24V off 2 packs of 24v Nicads. This produces 12BHp as well as only weighing a total of 13kg.
Removable Link- In the very centre of the machine. Positioned so few axes will have heads powerful nor long enough to reach it, whilst the shafts must be long and this will reduce their accuracy.
Weapon- A 38kg, titanium ring around the outside of the machine with 8x 4-inch long steel teeth with a chamfered triangular design in order to maximize damage. It€™s powered by a LEM-170 geared down by 5:2 giving out an output speed of 1286.4rpm. With a reasonably high horse power motor spinning it, and a low yet deadly top speed, it should get up to speed in around 2.8 seconds and has an output of 159Kj. It€™s 1cm thick as well so should withstand a good battering.
Srimech- Invertible
Strong against- Everything really.
Weak against- Very quick rammers, Me
Robot Most Compared to- Gyrobot?
House Robot Most Feared- Probably Growler
Strengths- Destructive, Invertible, Nippy, Well Armoured
Weaknesses- we€™ll add those as we find them out. The only one I can think of is that the armour may be vulnerable to axes. Has a tendenc yot be slightly unbalanced

[darkguru]

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Chris, Im asking about the motto cos my sanity is far gone anyway

[dinowarrior]

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Back in the time of the Celts, they had a compass made up of colours. Black, for example, was North, and White was South.

In the Horrible History book The Cut-Throat Celts, there were some games putting said compass to use. There was a picture of an extremely annoyed person collapsed over a bunch of chairs yelling THERES NO SUCH COLOUR AS GREENISH-PURPLE! (Purple was East, and I think green was south-west). It was so funny, I had to use it.

[matty_haka]

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Powerpoint The Thrasher 5 (PTT5)

Weight- 91.2kg (WDOR)
Dimensions- L- 60cm, W- 90cm, H- 28cm
Speed- 16.7mph, 7.5m/s
Shape- resembles a spanner, with the tightening bits at the side.
Ground Clearance- Not too big, but not tiny either, probably around 4mm
Turning circle- Minimal, if not nil
Armour- 1cm Grade 5 titanium all over, weighing a total of 38.88156kg
Power- 12 x 2480mAh, Apogee Lithium Polymer batteries, running at 11.1V each, but run in series to crank it up to a limit of just 24V as this is all we need and they weigh a total of just 1.86kg. They power 2 PERM-PMG-080€™s running at 24V and weigh a total of 6.1818182kg and produce 7.9BHp. The motors are geared down at a ratio of 14:1
Locomotion- We€™re using wheels from off-road skateboards for the main powered central reasons, and then we have 8 wheels from normal skateboards mounted on all corners top and bottom for extra stability.
Removable Link- The removable link is in the centre of the top of the machine, directly above the weapon.
Weapon- In the centre of the spanner form, there is a 50cm diameter horizontal disc, running off 2 x LEM 130€™s running on a reduced gearing to just 2000RPM . This will produce just over 10Kj, but the numerous little teeth on the outside (about 250 of them) will constantly chew at the surface. The whole disc is made of 1cm titanium and weighs just 9.2kg.
Srimech- Invertible
Strengths- Invertible, Nippy, Hard To Get Hold Of
Weaknesses- Slightly tricky to drive, Weapon will not damage thick armour

[team_britespark]

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On a school comp cos a certain person on this forum sent a virus to me. I knew nothing about Martyns design.

[martyn]

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surley you are on the school computer cause you are at school, anyway you did cause i told you about it on msn and i can prove it.

[majinb]

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*decides to drop by to give his thoughts about a subject called originality*

originality is scarce people, it is, 99,99% of everything we do, wether it is on school, at home, or while designing vapourbots, has been done before, really.
We basically use the same armours, the same movement type, the same engines and the same weapons. Almost every single FBS looks like every other FBS, cause theyre so bloody well-tested during the past years of roboteering... using ideas which have proven their worthy in the past isnt that bad at all, it might not be very original, so what?
Every single bot which can put up a good fight gains my respect...
Then there are the original machines, I highly respect a truly original bot, such as Alex Blizzard, and Ill respect them alot more when they can put up a good fight. And guess what happen when they do so, people will use that idea and itll lose its originality, except for the original which will always be original, cause trust me, when Blizzard gets his first good Tournament result, there WILL be other screwbots, and I dont think thats much of a problem at all, cause really, EVERY SINGLE APPROVEN CONCEPT HAS BEEN COPIED (and modified)

for this sole reason, there ARE vapourbots which look an awfully lot like Razer, Biohazard, Beta etc, cause theyre approven, even though it hugely lacks originality...

Originality is beatiful, it really is, but using approved concepts isnt bad at all, cause lets face it, isnt that what we do all day?

when it comes to Dan and Martyn, I havent got a clue whos wrong or right, but I really think anyone is free to use a tree shaker on his vapourbot, although Martyn does deserve credit IF hes the one who told this idea to Dan...

I also agree with Aron btw, the tree shaker might look good on paper, but it might take so much effort to build that the bot behind it might lack lotsa power and armour, o well...

[darkguru]

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Dudes, we ever gonna stop this beyatching and actually fight? Save it for the arena.

[majinb]

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thats actually what I meant

[andrewj]

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*gives Martijn one hell of a round of aplause*

a certain person on this forum sent a virus to me

I hope that wasnt aimed at me either...

[alex_holt]

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All my bots are now present and correct on my site.

Also I thank you for the completement Martijn, I do make an effort to try and make my creations interesting. Much to most peoples annoyance, it look me 3 tournies before the spinner ring sank in properly...

[majinb]

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lol, I can tell you put effort in your designs Alex, the last few days I spend lotsa time reading bout other peoples vapours, to prepare for my all out comeback in vapourrobotering, I actually understood how the spinner ring would work the moment I read about it, its a fun gadget to absorb the kinetic energy unleashed by any horizontal spinner

[knightrous]

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Very nice speech Mr Martijn

Alex has huge amounts of originality on tap, some good(Baldur), some not(Ice Armour Robot), but everyone has a shocker of a bot now an again (Gyrate for me :sad

I remember back in the ole days of vapourbots, when every person had wheeled robots. I believe I was one of the very first people to start mass producing walkers in my entries :P Caused a lot of bitching and stuff. I also brought out Flea, a robot that jumped to evade the opponent. Was a simple box shaped rammer covered in rubber, but it was unique :-P

I try to be creative with technology. MDU was revolutionary in a certain respective. Sure, the FBS had been done before in the form of Gyrobot, but I tried the idea of going a walker design and using the extra weight to allow me the use of a Gas Turbine for the weapon power, which eventually got banned in some tourneys....

Sure MDU was the same boring cylindrical shaped FBS ring spinner, but the inner parts and technology was what made it different and original at the time. MDU 3 is based on the unique design of Y-Pout, similar shape, three wheels, three etek motors..... But I changed the controlling technology behind it to a similar system to Cyclone bot and added some stuff I had used before, like the variable drive train. Modifying what someone had already made has enabled me to make something unique in another area.

To sum it up, originality comes out in a number of forms. People I give credit to for some original designs are Nick, Steven, Alex, Matty Haka and Tom Roper, there are a few more of you, but this is just off the top of my head

The whole meaning of this post..... I forgot

[dinowarrior]

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Ill agree to those. Most of my designs arent exactly original, but they still do their job well.

I added the player on Ram-Raider because I wanted it to be different. That, and I will crush you had lost it somewhere.