Robo Challenge Championships - Insomnia 61

[overkill]

Is anyone entering a horizontal spinner this year? Just deciding where to add extra armour to the new bot...

[Flag Captured]

Who needs armour? Just barebones it and stick an 8kg beater on the front

[overkill]

Tempting...

But I like my 8mm Ti armour .

[RogueTwoRobots]

I'm entering a tyre

[Theo]

I considered entering a brick into Hebocon earlier in the year.

[Maxamuslead]

HARDOX BRICKS FTW !

or maybe not

[Theo]

It does beg the question as to how effective bricks would be as armour.

[lowndsy]

I have an inch and a half of, erm... plastic! HDPE on top, low density plastic (yes, chopping board!) filling in voids and and brittle yellow stuff for the chassis, all under tension.

Reasonably confident FD will be able to get stuck in for a while before he gets torn to shreds, and since even I don't know what direction he will go in, the other bots won't stand a chance!

[inventor]

Any insight on when we can expect any news on the application?

Already booked the hotel as they were cheap but lets hope its not for nothing!

[SnowLabs]

I too would quite like to know this

[Jeroenl]

Hi guys, i have to withdraw, unfortunately. I have applied with Bonx, please remove it from the selection

[R9000]

I could really do with some news on this soon. I don't want to sound impatient, it's just hotel and train prices are getting more and more expensive the closer we get to the event, and as a student I need to save all the money I can!

[lowndsy]

It looks like a lot of people are building especially for this event so I bet it is a bit of a pain figuring out who to invite and who will be ready. My bot was meant to be ready for Manchester in April but overran a bit - he is 100% finished now.

Would it help if we did a head count of new bots which are / will definitely be ready?

[overkill]

Can't hurt!

[SnowLabs]

*raises hand* Mine'll be ready in time, no problem. I actually did a test run of the weaponless prototype version of my bot at Grantham (The one with the massive wheels). 60% chance it'll be called Spectre, 40% chance it'll be called Straddle. Think... Huge

https://youtu.be/6st6Kafh8_U - First fight!