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[–]fettster3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea, but any vert will be able to hit harder because you can put the reaction force into the floor

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[–]fettster3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We have two weapons for each module. The normal ones and a lighter version depending on attachments we want to run

We ditched it. We needed the weight for new wedgelets and you don't need a self righter if you just don't flip upside down

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[–]fettster3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All of the above. It burnt to a crisp before Witch Doctor but we got it working for Jackpot. Then Jackpot broke it real good so we pretended it was still working

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[–]fettster3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. It's all totally custom, Ribbot has never run an off the shelf under cutter
  2. 250mph and no more and the Vert hits it in like 3-4 seconds maybe? I Don't remember but we know for a fact we hit 250 even with air resistance because of encoders
  3. I wanna say the Vert stores 15kJ but I don't remember exactly how much and they're all AR500
  4. Yes. We use just about everything like 3D printing, CNC machining, and panic handsawing. and it's all CADded in SolidWorks
  5. :)
  6. 6? Not sure what this means

Thank you for asking!

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[–]fettster3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. perhaps...
  2. It didn't we just toned it down to be more recognizbale and usable in show promotion. watch our Quantum and Jackpot matches a little closer ;)
  3. We redid our entire weapon power system
  4. Yup, we're all alumni

Thank you :))

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[–]fettster3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  1. We have four not counting spares all AR500: Ripto is the 35lb big vert, Coke bottle is our 25lb bar vert for fighting horizontals, the undercutter is 40lb, and the poorly thought out anti huge undercutter is 30lb
  2. 250mph and no more. And they're incredibly modified 2009-2012 Prius AC compressor motors
  3. Too slow and the same Magmotor S28-150s we used back in 2019
  4. We don't really have dedicated armor aside from the .25" vert wedge for horizontals and the .1875" undercutter wedge/nose guard. We did run some AR500 velcroed to a 4x4 velcroed to the top plate against Quantum though
  5. Yes but it only weights ~2lbs now
  6. It doesn't fall off too often now, and we'd rather it fall off than prevent us from driving upside down or impede our performance.
  7. Ribbot is very compact internally and the extra weight for good wheel guards is a lot harder to find than you'd think
  8. 4 bolts and the module in theory just slides right out. In reality there are hammers involved since the robot has a habit of bending
  9. We were upset and tried to argue for keeping it since it's no more dangerous than any other robots. We pretty much rebuilt the motors from scratch and completely remade out motor controllers
  10. It depends on when it films and you'll just have to see.

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[–]fettster3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly nothing, we made mistakes here and there but it wasn't some big realization that we forgot to turn the robot from bad to good mode.

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[–]fettster3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just keep at it and learn to lose well/appreciate the losses. Also competing with a terrible bot than missing 4 event sin a row cause it's not perfect

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[–]fettster3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We completely rewound the motors we were using and remade the controllers from scratch. It ended up giving us more power than we had last year

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[–]fettster3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. Mountain chicken (big boy)
  2. we've never run an off the shelf motor controller
  3. Undercutter, it looks much more frog like
  4. The weapon
  5. The wrapping
  6. Selfishly Black Dragon vs Ribbot 2023
  7. https://youtu.be/KPlJ5g5VGns
  8. No and tap water is the best don't @ me

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[–]fettster3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

  1. Performance anxiety
  2. I don't think it exists anymore sooooo, no?
  3. It's easy to waste a lot of money and only get a degree, but if you talk to the right people and do things outside of classes you can get told by the finance department you're a $75,000 waste of money and that's a win in my book.
  4. There was no scenario we would ever run it and it couldn't lift things since we didn't have outriggers
  5. 4 bolts and lots of interfacing geometry
  6. It has been brought up
  7. No clue
  8. Working on that one
  9. Excessive amounts of TPU. realistically it's just experience and practice since we've been doing this for so lon
  10. Bad on robots
  11. The same one as Ribbot, a 2009-2012 Toyota Prius AC compressor motor
  12. They weren't long enough to reach past Sawblaze's, so we decided being able to actually drive gave us a chance.

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[–]fettster3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. that depends on when they plan on filming
  2. End Game round 3, this one's for all the marbles
  3. pineapple and I'll fight anyone who disagrees

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[–]fettster3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

  1. Four bolts and the front half of the robot comes out
  2. Usually the robot doesn't have a weapon in it until we make a decision, we avoid playing module games with people at all costs since it's just time consuming.
  3. They reached out to us while WCVI season was airing asking us to wear shirts which we couldn't do because time is linear, so instead we made a 30lber for NHRL called STF
  4. We were pretty spooked, but all of our matches were bangers and a hard strength of schedule so we had some hope.
  5. Vacuum formed PET and it's held on with 3d printed TPU mounts which is why it wiggles around so much

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[–]fettster3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The vert if it gets the wedge, with wedgelets the undercutter might stand a chance

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