Inspiration/innovation in weaponry

[typhoon_driver]

That's why I would recommend sharing the idea here as I'm sure you would get actual useful advice.

[craig_colliass]

Absolutely Craig, what we're finding with our experiments at the moment is getting a form of reliability and predictability with our unit is proving to be more than a little tricky.

Sometimes and I say this as a scientist as well, though certainly not as an engineer, we can be a tad conservative when it comes to exploring new avenues with a tendency to favour improvements on the established and proven.

But hey, even a failed experiment is a form of progress!

Quite right you don't learn from success but from the failures (that's why I know a lot ) I and many others in the robot scene applaud the noble efforts over the successful robots. I'm looking forward to seeing what this system is. win or lose.

[adamclark]

Instead of jumping , could you not use some flappy whegs instead?

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Always hankered after the idea of climbing onboard and then extruding metal wire into the interior of the robot.
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Basically a form of the Harlequins Kiss made real for any 40K fans
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Harlequin's_Kiss

[Black-Tie Knife Fight]

Despite it being all metal and wires, that would still be really gross to watch, Adam. I don't know why.

Craig, I'm really looking forward to showing it off, whether it is a success or a glorious failure. It's hard talking about it and being aware that going in to too much technical detail will perhaps upset my building buddies, not to mention show up my woeful engineering parlance. We're all just really excited and keen to get involved and meet people.

[Andy]

Adam that would be the coolest thing ever, build it :P horrible weapon to be on the receiving end of though if it is anywhere near effective, lipo fires every fight etc haha

[R9000]

Can't help but imagine intentionally shorting the opponent is in violation of some rule, like the 'Invisible Damage' rule. Perhaps it isn't, but also, how would you get the wires in? You'd have to make a hole in most robots, surely.

[Black-Tie Knife Fight]

I don't know, if you managed to get in and chew up a robots innards, it may well be ungentlemanly but it is still visible damage, just internal. I've dreamt of a heavyweight robot with a mini bot using a spinner that you could spin up on board the main robot and deploy under a flipper in to its innards if it missed the shot.

Very much pie in the sky but it would be cool.

[R9000]

Ahh I thought the wires were intended to short out connections, not just mangle the insides.

[adamclark]

Can't help but imagine intentionally shorting the opponent is in violation of some rule, like the 'Invisible Damage' rule. Perhaps it isn't, but also, how would you get the wires in? You'd have to make a hole in most robots, surely.

I think it would be quite visible, I also expect that most have some kind of opening. For sure where the wheels are, those spinners all seem to have a nice open hole with gears and belts exposed as well

[adamclark]

Ahh I thought the wires were intended to short out connections, not just mangle the insides.

A side effect would certainly be messing with electrics by direct contact. A few wires pushed inside a motor would look good.

[Shakey]

I think you're highly overestimating the effectiveness of the wire thing and even the ability to deploy them.

[maddox10]

In a fast paced fight trying to insert some wires in a ESC like a TZ85a, we're talking Borglike nanotech.

It's actualy in the rules from day 1 of the Original Mentorn rules :"no exposed electrical connections."

[Black-Tie Knife Fight]

Hmmmm the dawn of casual nano-warfare, I think if we got there those pesky spinners would pale in comparison! Some smart-aleck would simply enter grey-goo and wipe out all matter on Earth.

A tad excessive I think..

[team death]

I would simply like to refer you to this from my previous thread-

Everyone seems to have an opinion on how to build a winning robot for Robot Wars I found,

most turned out to be dreamers with concepts built around a radio controlled car and numerous ideas

for weapons- most of which would be illegal even under the oldest rules like machine guns and

electrical dissruption ect.

I' m working on a unique weapon myself so I'm all for new ideas-sensible ones

[john_frizell]

How would this differ from an axe or hammer?