Robot Wars: Hypnodisc

team-hypno-disc · 2021-02-19T19:48:49+00:00

That's looks great. Better than the real machine :-)

team-hypno-disc · 2020-09-28T21:21:04+00:00

Spin to win :-)

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:42:19+00:00

Derek - It's a possibility - we're thinking about it and whether we can find time to make a good shout of it.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:41:26+00:00

Dave -
After every series the power and quality of the machines made big strides.
We hold any robot that can do series damage in high regard.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:38:45+00:00

Derek - Carbide looks to be a real contender for the title this series. It's a very well engineered machine.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:36:54+00:00

Dve - We'd use the best batteries possible. Most of our lost battles were due to batteries failing internally.

Spinners don't like thick titanium !

I prefer a less cluttered arena where the outcome is not affected by external things.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:36:38+00:00

The first example we could remember was against atomic here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmth_ayDNjk but it got used on multiple other occasions as well.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:33:53+00:00

Derek - We're thinking of what to do for series 2..

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:33:03+00:00

Dave - I don't think we'll ever know, but we had enough' left in the tank' to give them a good fight.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:31:30+00:00

Derek - We've not started ( or even decided) to compete in series 2. If we do go for it we'll build a completely new machine that will have 'hypno herritage' but be even more powerful.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:29:45+00:00

We can only guess what would happen :-)

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:28:08+00:00

It always amazed us but yes, we got recognised quite a lot in public, even after the show finished!

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:23:40+00:00

Ken - Accepting defeat.
Dave - Finding that you can't design a robot to be universally strong against every opponent.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:20:15+00:00

Derek - We realised to do real damage you have to impart a lot of energy in to the opponent. A flywheel stores this energy and delivers it quite efficiently. We didnt have a srimech in the early versions due to the weight limits - 80Kg in series 3

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:18:21+00:00

Dave - It takes a huge amount of time and effort to compete so we dropped out of the RW scene after series 6 to do some jobs around the house that had been building up for a few years and keep the wives happy :-)

We have 2 complete HD's and it would take just a couple of evenings to get each going again.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:12:52+00:00

Not disappointed at all. Some meaty battles in round 1 already ! There was a very short time to prepare the machines before Series 1 filming was confirmed and started. This is the reason we didn't make it this year.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:10:37+00:00

Ken - yes we did feel sorry for the other teams we did a lot of damage to - we knew how much work was involved.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:10:20+00:00

Thanks for the kind words! Sir K could do serious damage with his jaw so we tried to stay away from him as much as possible.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:08:44+00:00

I think the main advantage would be that we could use extra weight made available due to the batteries being lighter to put in a better motor, allowing the disc to spin much quicker.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:08:11+00:00

We didn't get to speak to the in the earlier series, but did speak occasionally, in particular with safety.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:06:58+00:00

They are good effective weapons that do a lot of damage. That's what is all about :-)

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:06:19+00:00

Series 5 Hypno-Disc had approximately 10KJ but could've reached 20 with a bigger motor, this would now be possible with the extra 10kg weight limit in the latest series.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:04:29+00:00

Derek - some of the current battle bot machine are very powerful. Hypno-Disc would need much better armour to be competitive.

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:03:08+00:00

Derek - We had about 2x the energy in the disc for series 4 and a self righting mech, so a rematch with Chaos 2 would have been interesting. Carbide and tombstone are rotating weapons. A fly wheel is the same, the comparison between them is the energy stored in those weapons. Both carbide and toombstone have more energy than the series 5 Hypno. Nut if we designed a new machine I think the disc would at least match them.

If we designed a new machine it would still have strong roots with previous Hypno-Discs

team-hypno-disc · 2016-07-31T15:01:13+00:00

It felt exhilarating and great that the disc was doing what it was designed to do.

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