About This is my custom case for holding a Pinecil Soldering Iron and an Omnifixo Helping Hands. The Omnifixo base acts like a lid and attaches using the Omni Magnets. The only additional hardware you need is about half a foot of 3/32 (2.0-2.5mm) piano wire, which can be found at most hobby shops…
Despite going to a ton of events the last couple of years, I haven’t written an Event Report in awhile… so let’s fix that! This event followers my 1 pound PLANT “Asuka Lotta Questions” and my 150g fairyweight “Gimli” in Las Vegas, Nevada. Thanks to BattleBots, this is now my 4th trip to Vegas in…
Making Banshee in Robot Rumble 2? Putting together a Banshee papercraft? Use these decals to make your model look just like the real thing! (This image is provided for free but is not for commercial use)
EVAC (East Valley Attack Combat Robotics), is the newest combat robotic club in Arizona alongside Wolves Robotics Booster Club, UoA’s Wildcat Robotics Club, and of course my own club: Arizona Robotic Combat. Since this was their first ever event, I was expecting a nice laid back competition that was fun to both hang out and…
The Harbor Freight black and yellow organizers are nice and cheap, but I wanted some smaller compartment options. These are drop-in replacements of the existing bins that do just that. 4×2 (Large) 2×2 (Medium) 1×2 (Small) These all use the same grid system so you can combine two Smalls to make a Medium and so…
Puca V2 Wait a minute, Puca 3? What happened to 2? Let’s cover that real quick. So after Puca won Norwalk in January 2023, it fought at Motorama the next month where it would slowly obtain a negative win/loss ratio. Pictured above is Puca’s big secret. The 4-in-1 ESC actually sticks out the back…
Wow… I can’t believe I’ve made 10+ versions of this robot and it’s almost a decade old! V10 is my biggest redesign yet. The chassis is all TPU again, except for the baseplate AND the arm supports, which are carbon fiber to keep things rigid. Laser cutting is great and all, but quite pricey. That’s…
Background Dark Energy Disc (DED) is a 1lb plastic antweight I built for my brother James. It’s a simple horizontal midcutter that uses a Colbolt-inspirted blade for a weapon. Theme DED is a Yu-Gi-Oh themed robot. The name itself comes from one of the more humorous instances of censorship in the anime. Originally, Yugi and…
Fight Videos All of Gimli’s fights can be found here.However, I won’t be doing a recap video on Púca and Son of Kram. They didn’t do too well and I don’t have the time. But I will cover what happened in their fights in this write-up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOJ8inG1hKQ&ab_channel=TeamSmallRobots Gimli So the first day of Motorama…
