Robot Wars

[paradigm]

man, the memories

Razer was by far the best robot; didn't look like a tin of baked beans & had the coolest weapon

The odd thing was that for some reason whenever I watched robot wars, all the robots always seemed to look the same size as your regular monster truck but when the owners were interviewed and stuff like car wheels/car doors were shown in the arenas it became clear the robots were much bigger, but it was a bit weird, as if the cameras used an odd lens to make the robots look smaller or something.

Was it just me?

I guess it was different for me having built one, and having been heavily into my 1/10th scale R/C too. I never saw them as small on TV, just the arena and the hosue robots dwarfed them.

None of the better robots used "junk" sourced motors, that and the ESC's for them were stupidly expensive!

 

[Tefal]

Razor Kills Matilda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e4cHWS2758&feature=related
Awsome!

I think if razer managed to get behind killalot/on the side and get the beak in long enough to clamp he could take out a track/hydrolics then go to work on him

 

[Monkey Puzzle]

Paradigm - what was the name of your robot?

 

[Doohickey]

Got rubbish when Tornado started to win. Most boring 'robot' ever.

Took the **** when it came up against Razer and the team decided to just put a big **** off frame around it so that Razer couldn't get near.

 

[Tom0]

My Comprehensive School won UK Season 2 \/

http://archive.southwalesargus.co.uk/2001/7/27/76215.html

 

[Shoei]

Got rubbish when Tornado started to win. Most boring 'robot' ever.

Took the **** when it came up against Razer and the team decided to just put a big **** off frame around it so that Razer couldn't get near.

I remember that. Prior to that Razer to it to pieces, bit by bit, then they built the big frame which it stopped it going in the pit. Bunch of wusses.

Warhead, the bot the Razer team built for battle-bots was awesome.

 

[MeatLoaf]

Hypnodisc was always my fave but in the later series it became prone to breaking

 

[Cyanide]

I lost interest when Clarkson was replaced by Craig Charles. He just wasn't the same

 

[Alibaba99]

Got rubbish when Tornado started to win. Most boring 'robot' ever.

Took the **** when it came up against Razer and the team decided to just put a big **** off frame around it so that Razer couldn't get near.

You could say that was clever interpretation of the rules, and the realisation that it was possible to build something legal that was too large for the pit.

Anyway Season 7 was won by a full body spinner which was capable of dealing out destruction plus taking out the arena walls.

 

[my_computer]

road block was one of the first wedge/flipper robots and totally dominated at first.

my friends brother made road block.. its nice going to his house and seeing it on the ceiling

 

[paradigm]

Paradigm - what was the name of your robot?

Twas Edgehog.

 

[Doohickey]

You could say that was clever interpretation of the rules, and the realisation that it was possible to build something legal that was too large for the pit.

Well yeah, but still, made a boring machine even more boring. I mean, yes in later incarnations it had that little vertical flywheel thing, but that hardly did anything. All it did was... push :| gtfo

 

[Raikiri]

Twas Edgehog.

Edgehog
From: Chesire
Weight: 100 Kilos
Dimensions: 0.87M X 0.95M X 0.80M
Power: 2 X 750W Electric Motors
Weapons: Pneumatic Axe
Strengths: Strong Weapon
Weaknesses: Breaking Down

 

[Stellios]

Razer and Mortis were easily the best IMO, I thought Gemini was cleverly done, but never really understood how it passed off as one robot.

Chaos 2s flipper was amazing, and whilst I neveer liked robots with a siple flipped, Chaos 2s was just immense.

 

[paradigm]

Edgehog
From: Chesire
Weight: 100 Kilos
Dimensions: 0.87M X 0.95M X 0.80M
Power: 2 X 750W Electric Motors
Weapons: Pneumatic Axe
Strengths: Strong Weapon
Weaknesses: Breaking Down

Yes, we had issues with drive

 

[Hamish]

My mate was on it, I've forgotten what his robot was but it was rectangular and made of perspex, think it might have had an axe, don't think he got very far, its sat in his garage now!

 

[Hyper]

What was that one called that came in half and therefore acted as 2 robots?

 

[Doohickey]

What was that one called that came in half and therefore acted as 2 robots?

Gemini, a so called 'cluster-bot'

 

[paradigm]

What was that one called that came in half and therefore acted as 2 robots?

I forget, but cluster bots had a different weight limit, so a good idea in theory if you used it as one bot primarily.

 

[Doohickey]

I loved (or not really) how they came up with all these craptastic new terms in Robot Wars, like 'cluster bot' and 'srimech'. 'Srimech' sounds so rubbish, lol.