This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with Tantrum’s two newest co-captains, Ginger Schmidt and Alex Grant! Ginger and Alex have both built really interesting robots earlier in their careers, through FIRST Robotics, and then later, in competitions like NASA’s Robotic Mining Competition. They’ve been competing with Tantrum since the 2018 season, and are taking over as co-captains this season, as Aren Hill moves on to captain the new flipper bot Blip.

 

This week’s combat robotics news:

Nuclear Blast returns as Blacksmith’s title sponsor: https://www.facebook.com/Teamhfa/posts/333486438324744 

Blade’s newest weapons test: https://www.facebook.com/TeamORBY/posts/809490279718787 

Captain Shrederator t-shirts on sale: https://www.facebook.com/spinwinning/posts/4188894404542767 

Duck selling S3 and S4 top plates to pay some bills: https://www.facebook.com/BlackandBlueRobotics/posts/229144039225865 

Gary Gin’s 39-degree slushies: https://www.facebook.com/freeshippingbot/posts/203377245118483 

Hydra after day 1: https://www.facebook.com/Whyachi/posts/4670831022929676 

HiJinx back patches for sale for $52: https://www.facebook.com/HiJinx.BattleBot/posts/431758841709160 

2021 HUGE reveal: https://www.facebook.com/BattleBotsHuge/posts/893545631251311 

Norwalk Havoc picks up SendCutSend as a sponsor: https://www.facebook.com/NorwalkHavoc/posts/398978141583601 

Lucky drive test: https://www.facebook.com/tkorobotics/posts/248359583960753 

P1 and hamfish: https://www.facebook.com/AberrantRobotics/posts/1040794716752882 

Riptide’s blurry insides: https://www.facebook.com/riptidebattlebot/posts/125727346475894 

SawBlaze’s fly-over: https://www.facebook.com/SawBlazeBattlebots/posts/237345518398870 

Shatter’s 2021 kit reveal: https://www.facebook.com/BotsFC/posts/252172276911588 

Skorpios is selling poker chips: https://www.facebook.com/SkorpiosBattleBot/posts/239018178234145 

Uppercut 2021 reveal: https://www.facebook.com/UppercutBattlebot/posts/355363642590996 

Witch Doctor design reveal: https://www.facebook.com/witchdrshaman/posts/3945365232234948 

 

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