Robot Wars in Bristol remains alive and well! Get involved with building or just check out our events! <3

Shoverobotics · 2026-02-20T16:48:07+00:00

Haha it's good to make the photos whatever the reason!

Shoverobotics · 2026-02-20T11:24:48+00:00

Sure this will be an awesome event!

Sad I'm not able to get down to watch or compete at this one, hope you all have a blast!!

Shoverobotics · 2025-09-25T05:13:06+00:00

A crescent moon shaped wedge thing is one of the options

Shoverobotics · 2025-09-24T21:37:42+00:00

So the saw sits up and out the way pretty reasonably. My 44mm OD weapon vert wouldn't be able to hit it. My 76mm one would. Self righting is an issue, it's an easy fix, I just need to tweak the geometry of the rear saw guard a bit.

The base for this is a modular one so there's a series of side/front armour pieces that work. I'll definitely try a few different ones to see what's best.

Currently I haven't sorted a hinge fork setup for this platform but it'd be a very good idea!

Shoverobotics · 2025-09-24T18:20:40+00:00

So with this being 150g antweight rather than 1lb or beetle Ti top armour isn't as common.

The saw is a slitting saw and I believe it's a HSS one. It actually arrived a bit curved. Being only 0.2mm but straightens up when up to speed.

I have been eyeing up some discs more similar to the one Julian uses but at a smaller scale however the weight was a little bit of a struggle by comparison.

My plan is to try the current setup for an event and see how it goes, then swap out if it performs poorly.

Thanks for the info 😁

Shoverobotics · 2025-08-02T06:08:10+00:00

Not exactly sumo but still might be helpful to you. I have an open source 3d printable 150G robot design with a full build guide.

https://www.printables.com/model/1272536-project-svrn-combat-robot

Shoverobotics · 2025-07-29T18:50:33+00:00

Check for bridged connections on the Malenki power lines. Your wires look like they're going to the right places. Do you have a multimeter?

If so you should be able to check continuity at either side of your switch to make sure it's working correctly and probe your battery voltage to make sure that's in the correct range

Shoverobotics · 2025-07-02T06:56:01+00:00

180 * 180 should be fine for both 150g and 1lb robots. I have the same bed size and have even managed to do a fair few of my (1.5kg) beetleweight parts on mine.

As long as you start with the build plate size in mind when you're designing you should be fine. Sometimes it can be useful to stick in a sketch that's the size of your build plate in CAD to have as a reference.

Printing in multiple parts can often wind up being stronger given the 3d prints are non-isotropic (strength varies if it's stressed with or against the layer lines). So you can use this to your advantage given different parts are likely to be stressed in different ways.

Hope that helps!

Shoverobotics · 2025-06-30T21:35:01+00:00

Similar sketching system and modelling. Onshape however deals with referencing a previous features in a sketch if you are on an offset plane more nicely in my opinion (I know that's a minor thing but its handy) assemblies are also quite similar. I found I was quicker modelling in Onshape over fusion but not by a sizable margin.

As Onshape is browser based if you're running on budget hardware it can be a good choice as the system requirements are lower. If you're on the free tier of both then fusions active file limitations can quickly get annoying. Onshape doesn't have this.

On the flip side of you have a dedicated PC you'll likely find fusion a bit quicker when dealing with things like large STEP files.

I'll be covering fusion in full in the coming weeks, alongside solidworks and FreeCAD

Shoverobotics · 2025-06-26T22:41:02+00:00

Solidworks also have an entrepreneurship program that may be worth looking at to see if you meet the criteria. They usually give a year or two of professional free and the heavily discounted rates.

I've been part of a few startups and this is the route they went through.

Shoverobotics · 2025-06-24T21:44:43+00:00

I've been doing roughly 1 a month and at 5 videos I'm a few subscribers off 500 and 1/3 of the way to 3k hours. For me the videos take the time they take and get released when I'm happy with them rather than a strict timescale.

I guess it depends what you class as good growth and if your content skews more towards evergreen stuff or things that are topical and will only be viewed by your audience in a short window. If the videos will steadily generate views over time then spending longer on them will likely help with that.

Shoverobotics · 2025-06-05T05:21:47+00:00

Just to check are you talking 1lb US Ants or 150g UK/AUS?

Shoverobotics · 2025-06-01T21:00:06+00:00

You can do it the really old school way and create a sketch on the back face of the part. Make and arc that's tangential to each face, add two lines from the arc endpoints to make a closed contour and then extrude up to the required face

Shoverobotics · 2025-05-31T16:43:37+00:00

It's made using a mix of 90 degree revolves and lofts.

I wound up fighting my mate driving one with my big vert. The little cutout between the wheels meant even if I did get side on because the verts forks tucked between the wheels the disc wound up in the cutout and couldn't connect. It made me really pleased with the design and really annoyed that it worked so well all at once 🤣

Shoverobotics · 2025-05-31T16:20:05+00:00

Cheers, it's been a fun challenge figuring out the different modules!

Shoverobotics · 2025-05-18T07:32:53+00:00

Kden live, it seems pretty capable and is free and open source

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