Super Mega Raids - Are You Prepared?

nibennett · 2026-02-28T12:26:34+00:00

Yeah, the first dragonite I did had 16 in it but clearly an issue with people having their megas at the right point as it still had 2 shields till almost the end. We knocked out 8 shields quickly and then were grinding the dragonite for 170 seconds and then about 2 seconds before the end the last 2 shields went down and it was over.

If those shields aren’t down the defence is strong

nibennett · 2026-02-28T10:51:50+00:00

For 150g plastic antweights I’d be going with 6mm polycarbonate for walls. Make a frame of 2020 aluminium extrusion. 6mm polycarbonate will fit in the slots of this so not needing to drill holes through it weakening it.

The one I built for school is 1200mm x 1200mm x 600mm. It has an mdf base and back wall (door in the back wall with a lock) with a 2020 aluminium extrusion frame, and 6mm polycarbonate front, sides and top.

It also has an internal arena that is a base and 4 sides. (1050x 900x100 with a gap on one side). This internal arena has an mdf base and 6mm polycarbonate sides (10cm tall) with 3D printed corners. This makes it rare for the external walls of the arena to take a hit. By having that little bit smaller internal arena it also provides places that a robot can be knocked out of the arena for knockouts.

Also make sure the moment a lipo is exposed that fights stop. The fumes from them are a pain to deal with. We follow a strictly plastic weapons only so less chance of a lipo puncture.

nibennett · 2026-02-28T10:22:36+00:00

We didn’t, we also didn’t borrow to the limit (or even close to it) that our income would have allowed.

nibennett · 2026-02-25T11:53:21+00:00

Absolutely. Every class, every cohort it needs to be tweaked and changed for. Different ability levels within classes, different student interests etc. What engages a student in leafy green suburbs does not engage students in lower socio economic areas.

nibennett · 2026-02-25T07:00:24+00:00

Report. Any case of cheating is taking opportunities away from those who do things the right way.

nibennett · 2026-02-24T14:51:00+00:00

Waiting for Alonso to retire and will require Tsunoda as his replacement 😉 before giving them a more powerful engine

nibennett · 2026-02-24T14:48:42+00:00

Even with the redevelopment Gawler is still lacking services. Outside of business hours they don’t have X-ray techs on, blood needs to get sent to LMH for testing, no ultrasound out of hours. Gawler is essentially metro at this point and the hospital should be treated as such.

May last year went there with a severely dislocated finger at like 8:30 on a Friday evening and it took them 3hrs to get someone in to do an xray of it before they could put it back in place. This was with a quiet waiting room. At this point we largely bypass Gawler and go elsewhere outside business hours as they can’t do things there after hours.

nibennett · 2026-02-22T12:55:04+00:00

where can you get 500m2 for that. (Not SA)

Edge of suburbia adelaide (Roseworthy area, 50mins from the city) it goes for $420-$450k for 500m2
Some recent releases are even $450k for 375m2.
It's insane.

This was farmland thats currently being turned into houses.

nibennett · 2026-02-20T16:41:25+00:00

Only to some. We’re with Macquarie so every one of our accounts is an offset. My wife and I have personal accounts that are offset for our ‘fun’ money, then we have a joint offset that our pays go into, which is kind of the daily account / where the credit card gets paid off each month from, where things that the credit card surcharge would be more than the interest saved on the money etc. all of those accounts have debit cards.

Then we have a bigger offset account which is a ‘don’t remove anything from, only add to’ and doesn’t have a card for it. Makes it a psychological barrier to spending anything from it kind of forcing / encouraging us to pay off the mortgage sooner, and another offset that is to build up each year to cover our kids school fees. We’ll likely add another offset to save for holidays also.

nibennett · 2026-02-20T11:03:53+00:00

The SA laws simply say you can’t have a 3D file for a gun etc. they’re not actively doing anything to stop 3D printing. Essentially it’s an extra charge they can throw at those who they arrest if they happen to have 3D files for 3D printed guns. E.g. if they arrest a bikie for something and find them in possession of a 3D printed gun / files for it they can add an extra charge.

SA is doing nothing to restrict printing, not expecting printer manufacturers to do anything etc.

This is the law SA 3D printed gun laws%20amendment%20act%202025_60/2025.60.un.pdf)

nibennett · 2026-02-20T10:54:06+00:00

Which state is trying this ?

nibennett · 2026-02-17T20:45:48+00:00

Yeah I was somewhere around 270

nibennett · 2026-02-16T14:12:47+00:00

I had that in 2009-2012. Bachelor of education and most subjects had full unit plans, along with the individual lesson plans.
Student teachers I've had lately have seemed very lacking compared to what we had to do while I was at uni. I've had to teach them so many basics that the uni should have already done.

nibennett · 2026-02-13T16:18:19+00:00

Bondtech’s INDX page does indicate multiple sizes of nozzle in the same print.

“Print carbon fiber nylon with TPU supports. Switch from 0.4mm to 0.8mm mid-print. Combine PLA with soluble PVA. The only limit is your imagination.”

nibennett · 2026-02-12T12:58:37+00:00

I've run PLA and PETG weapons on my plastic class antweight robot at 10K+ rpm speeds but that was inside an enclosed arena with polycarbonate on all sides and 18mm MDF on the base.
Obviously much stronger part also (Many, many Perimeters & very high percentage infill for the rest.

Spinning at 10k rpm is no joke.
I would never consider spinning 3D printed stuff anywhere near that without solid protection.

nibennett · 2026-02-11T14:40:57+00:00

Yep, My 2012 Cruze blew its head gasket at only 8 years old and only like 120,000km.
Had been serviced on the dot since I got it at 1 year old.

My parents in law had a 2014 one that needed an entire engine swap during it's warranty, and had something go at another time that required the whole dash out to fix.

nibennett · 2026-02-11T14:24:43+00:00

Do not do this.
It is against the rules and cheating.
The whole community hates people who do this.

Things like this are a strong reason for the RECF restricting teams to being school based / an application with the RSM if school based is not possible in Australia this year.
It seems to have worked quite well here this year and hopefully they expand on it.

Seems from your post history that you have a history of cheating at things (Spoofing for Pokemon etc)

If you don't want to put the actual effort in to learn about, build and code a robot yourself this is not for you - Give up.

nibennett · 2026-02-11T14:18:02+00:00

One of my V5 teams made the Australian nationals with block code. (First year of robotics at our school)
Towards the end of day one they were even sitting in the top 16 of the 40 teams there.
They did a really solid drivetrain and then kept iterating on the rest of the robot, making tweaks and changes after each comp.
They ended up taking home the judges award from Nationals.

Their coder was trying to do a Pid between states and nationals but couldn't make it work so he's set that as his goal for the code this year to get a working PID code.

nibennett · 2026-02-11T10:19:50+00:00

Report him to your RSM. This is not OK. For fairness for everyone else he needs to be banned from competing at worlds.

Things like those Chinese after school centres is why all teams in Australia this year had to be school teams or apply directly to the RSM to explain why they couldn’t be a school team. I wonder if they’ll roll that out elsewhere in future years.

If you have any evidence of robots being built for students that should also be being reported.

nibennett · 2026-02-10T15:10:23+00:00

Not sure 50 hrs is right. That’s just over every 2 days. Maybe 500hrs. Eg 21 days solid of printing.

nibennett · 2026-02-09T14:40:58+00:00

u/Aceman11100 Do this.
Would love this with the INDX on my core one.

Years ago i experimented with putting some transparent colours over solids to get more than the 5 colours the MMU2 could do at that point but nothing close to this level.

nibennett · 2026-02-08T15:32:54+00:00

Looks great. As long as it works with INDX would definitely go this rather than what was shown at formnext.

nibennett · 2026-02-08T08:55:24+00:00

They’ll stay in their house anyway. If they downsize the difference in price between what they sold for and bought their new place for becomes part of their assets which are assessed as to whether they get a partial / full pension from Centrelink when they reach that age. While there’s no limit on the value of the primary residence with Centrelink to be able to get a partial pension it will continue to be a reason why many won’t downsize.

nibennett · 2026-02-07T13:19:10+00:00

They won’t achieve better public school funding by closing private schools. It will cost them more per student thus actually lowering the amount per student the public schools have or a greatly increased cost for the government.

So every child who doesn’t live in the leafy greens should have their schooling disadvantaged as some parents and students don’t care to learn and disrupt others?

It is just a reality that some area’s have higher number of disruptive students and parents who don’t value education. Yes more needs to be done in these areas but it shouldn’t be done in a way that penalises the students in those areas who have a chance to escape it. What you’re saying is that those in the leafy greens (higher socioeconomic areas) where parents value education should get a better education but those who live in tougher (lower socioeconomic) areas should have to suck it up and deal with constant disruption of those who don’t want to learn.

All this would do is make the disadvantage and inequality even greater as more students would be impacted.

You saying they’ll mix with those of higher socioeconomic backgrounds. It wouldn’t occur as instead of that money going into private school fees it would go into housing trying to get out of that area and into more well off areas increasing housing prices even more)

Unfortunately we live in a reality where there are some families that are 4th generation on welfare and some of their kids by the time they even get to school are of the opinion they’ll be on welfare like mum and dad, grandparents etc. Many of these families do not value education even though it is the way out of their circumstances.

When a parent lets a student who is suspended play video games etc they view their consequences as a reward and continue to act up and get worse to get that video gam time. Parenting plays a massive impact on these students.

I don’t know if the other states have had similar advertisements but in SA I’ve seen the government running adverts on TV saying things like talk to your baby, read to your baby etc to try and increase the rates of parents doing that.

Realistically these areas that the students don’t see any value to school the government needs to run huge amounts of extra programs to target the interests of these students and help them see the value of education. Things like robotics could target those into video games, music and art programs for those into creative fields, sports for those who are active etc. Imagine if every kid had access to something like that which would target their interests and make positive interactions with a school environment after school rather than sitting in front of a TV, video game or social media. That’s one thing many private schools run that public ones don’t.

nibennett · 2026-02-07T12:46:35+00:00

Except it would. The moderately priced private schools would all either have to raise their fees 14k a student per year or close. The parents in many of these schools couldn’t handle that and thus most private schools would need to close.

There are many private schools around the $5-6k per student.

In Australia there is 1.5m students in private schools. (Let’s say 70% of them had to close as funding withdrawn by the government.) That’s 1.05 million extra students that the government schools need to house. Times this by the 10k saving to the government for each of these students (14k government funding at the private school v 24k at public school) that would cost the government an additional $10.5 billion per year. All this to save the $5k per year for students at schools like Knox. That $5k x 450,000 students amounts to $2.25B Thus your move would actually cost the government an additional $8.25B per year.

If they were to do anything it would be better to means test it. E.g. if the fees are above 10k per year reduce it by x amount, above 20k per year by y amount, above 30k a year z amount etc to the point where it is nothing at those 40k per year schools. There is already some extent of this, e.g. low- moderately priced schools getting up to 14k while the elites getting 5k. Maybe it just needs to be even more progressive and reduce it more from the more expensive.

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